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STAB - Int'l Social Work
(55408)
This course introduces students to concepts and practice issues regarding social welfare in a global context. Students review and apply conceptual frameworks, such as those based on human rights, social development, and sustainable development, to a range of global problems such as poverty, health, status of women and children, etc. Students use these frameworks, and an ecological and systems perspective to compare the dimensions of, and interventions used in response to, social problems in the United States and other countries, with special attention to vulnerable populations such as the elderly, refugees, handicapped, etc.
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