Social Justice and Social Work
RSSW-604-9390
University at Albany
- Semester
- Fall 2025
- Instructor
- Tola Seng
- Start Date
- 08-25-2025
- Total Credits
- 3
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- 518-442-5140
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This required MSW course is a touchstone for trauma-informed, anti-oppressive social welfare policy and social work practice. Students will learn about key ideas and theories that frame current understandings of oppression and social justice, focusing on power and privilege, intersectionality, and structural violence, as well as liberation, diversity, and equity. Topics addressed will focus on many forms of social injustices, for example, white supremacy, racism, ableism, ageism, adultism, homophobia, cisgenderism, and transphobia. Through study and engagement with history, social justice movements, and current community-based change work, individual learners will articulate their own positionality and engage in praxis (reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed) as the class imagines new futures grounded in liberation.
Course Area: Social Welfare
Level: Graduate
Dates: 08-25-2025 - 12-08-2025
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