SOCW 512

Knowledge and Inquiry

Units: 1.5

Focuses on responsible and effective professional and scholarly practice beginning with a critical examination of how relations of power shape knowledge production. Underpinning the course readings and class discussions is a key question: What explanatory frameworks do we draw on to explain our practice and our professional/personal identity?

Note: Credit will be granted for only one of 512, SPP 502, HSD 502.

Prerequisites: Advanced Year Standing

Graduate course in the Social Work program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.