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Sep 26, 2024
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SWK 655 - Community Practice 3 hours
This course examines the theories, approaches, and analytical tools that social workers utilize in community organizing, planning, and development practice for the purpose of achieving neighborhood, community and wider social change. The course considers approaches, concepts, and definitions of community and the roles of organizations in change efforts, especially those in diverse, low-income urban communities. A primary course objective is to explore how community practice attempts to intervene to shape the environmental and structural conditions that affect individual and family functioning. The course also examines the theoretical bases of these interventions, and the implementation strategies through which they play out in daily practice. The course includes discussion of both historic and current examples of community action practice in Chicago and nationally. Throughout, the course emphasizes political and economic conditions and events that shape, constrain, and enable community action and social change.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 510, 550, 610 or advanced standing.
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