SWK 222 - Introduction to Social Work

Overview of the role and function of the social worker in various agency settings including substance abuse treatment settings. Explores the evolution and philosophy of social work as well as the profession’s ethical standards, knowledge base, skills, and values. Employs rights-based, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses to understand and critique the social work profession’s history, mission, roles, and responsibilities and analyzes historical and current contexts of oppression in shaping institutions and social work. Classroom lectures and text materials are supplemented with agency trips, and presentations by social work professionals. Prerequisite or corequisite to all other social work courses. Course Codes: AB.

Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite or corequisite to all other social work courses. Course Codes: AB. Term cycle: Fall and Spring. Yearly cycle: all years.

Credits: 3