Dec 30, 2024  
2020-2022 Graduate School Catalog 
    
2020-2022 Graduate School Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SOWK 602 - Social Work Practice with Urban Black Families


3 hours.
3 Credits

This advanced practice course will expand the development and application of empowerment and strengths-based interventions for the purpose of creating alternative African-centered healing models for practice with African/Black American families.  The course will combine a historical overview of African/Black American families with an emphasis on the obstacles they encounter as threats to healthy development and family functioning. Special attention is devoted to unraveling the effects of African cultural legacies, slavery, and institutional racism on urban Black family life. All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status are required to take this course.

Prerequisite(s) SOWK 601  , SOWK 603 .
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 604  
Offered (SPRING)



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