Community and Social Change Analysis

3 credits · Graduate

There are tensions within the concept of community between marginalization and/or self-determination. Through case studies, the course explores these tensions as they occur in the field of community “care”, and expanding field of social work practice. The theoretical base for the course draws on a variety of perspectives such as communitarianism, eco-feminism, social ecology, managerialism, neo-liberalism, and new” social movement theory.