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Anna Haley-Lock
SOC W 512
Seattle Campus
Focuses on ways in which management activities contribute to service effectiveness for clients and quality of conditions for staff. Various managerial roles, functions, and skills examined. Impact of agency structure, culture, and mission on staff, clients, and organizational outcomes discussed with emphasis on ways social work managers influence change. Offered: W.
Class description
This is the first of a 2-quarter course sequence that prepares students for entry-level macro social work practice. Using an anti-oppression lens, students develop foundational skills in assessment, intervention, and evaluation with groups, organizations, and communities; and in policy construction and implementation. These arenas are viewed as both tools and targets for change efforts. This process is driven by the principles of economic and social justice, multiculturalism, and anti-oppression practice and requires social workers to become critical thinkers and reflective practitioners engaged in and capable of facilitating an action-oriented model that reflects social works core values.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
interactive seminar (including lecture, discussion, student presentation, outside presenters)
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
professional memos
