Social Welfare & Social Work Histor (SOWK 303)
Term: 2019-2020 Academic Year - Fall Semester
Schedule
Thu, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (8/26/2019 - 12/6/2019) Location: LC
Description
This course seeks to add to generalist social work orientation by focusing on the connection between the history of social work practice and social welfare policy and the issues that lead to policy formation. Social workers need to possess knowledge and understanding of the development of social welfare policies in response to social issues from the local tribal level to the federal level. To this end a major focus of the course is social welfare history from the Poor Laws forward. A particular focus is health and social welfare policies affecting the Lakota people.
Macro-level social welfare policies have existed as long as people have collaboratedto meet their social needs. Social workers must grapple continually with the policy questions of "Who should get What? How? When? Where? On what Basis and Why?" The role of professional values and ethics in policy formation is explored in relation to all course content.
By the end of the course, students should understand that polici