SOCW 545

Networks and Communities

Units: 1.5

Social work practice within communities and social networks. Definitions of community are explored as experienced and conceptualized from various locations. Critical historical and theoretical analysis and ethical dilemmas posed by various approaches to community work are examined. Students have the opportunity to develop theoretical and practical understandings of anti-oppressive, antiracist and anti-colonial community practice as experiences within their own communities.

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