SWK 620 Advanced Policy: Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
This advanced social welfare policy course will expand upon the student’s knowledge and understanding of social policy development and evaluation. Students evaluate social welfare policies influencing clinical contexts, analyzing them at the individual, family, and group level. Students examine policy positions that include understanding of professionalism, evaluation of risk, malpractice, and other legal issues faced in clinical social work practice. Students evaluate policies that impact not only the clinical environment but the broader societal impact on client systems, interpreting the understanding in line with a biblical worldview synthesis. This course will focus on policy practice that addresses social, economic, and environmental injustice at all practice levels (micro, mezzo, macro) and delivery of social welfare programs. This course is reserved for students enrolled in the Clinical Social Work specialization. (3 credits)
Prerequisite
Completion of foundational MSW coursework or Advanced Standing admission.