SWK 510 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment: The Life Course

[3 credit(s)]

Prerequisites: GSW Major. The course emphasizes the importance of multidisciplinary and multidimensional theoretical frameworks to understand and explain human behavior over the life course. Focusing on person-in-environment, the course explores and critiques theoretical frameworks relevant to the life course and its developmental stages. How mechanisms of oppression, poverty, marginalization and alienation, and intersectionality affect human experience at the different stages of the life course are also explored. Such an understanding provides the foundation for developing as a culturally responsive social work practitioner. Students critically reflect on their own experiences to develop self-awareness and manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in their work. The course emphasizes the importance of understanding how theories are relevant to and applied in social work practice.

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