DIVERSITY, OPPRESSION, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOCIAL WORK

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the history of racial and colonial oppression in the US and its ongoing impact on present-day social structures and individual experiences. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the ways in which power differentials operate, are experienced, and are reinforced. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate how intersections of various social identities contribute to unequal experiences, access to opportunities, and life outcomes, using a framework that incorporates anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Audience: Graduate 4. Support arguments that account for needs and concerns of marginalized groups that brings to bear evidence from a range of sources, artifacts, and worldviews. Audience: Graduate 5. Enhance self-awareness and understanding of others through the exploration of social location and positionality, fostering a commitment to social justice and equity in social work practice. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the history of racial and colonial oppression in the US and its ongoing impact on present-day social structures and individual experiences. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the ways in which power differentials operate, are experienced, and are reinforced. Audience: Graduate 3. Evaluate how intersections of various social identities contribute to unequal experiences, access to opportunities, and life outcomes, using a framework that incorporates anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Audience: Graduate 4. Support arguments that account for needs and concerns of marginalized groups that brings to bear evidence from a range of sources, artifacts, and worldviews. Audience: Graduate 5. Enhance self-awareness and understanding of others through the exploration of social location and positionality, fostering a commitment to social justice and equity in social work practice. Audience: Graduate