SOWK 200 - Social Work

SOWK 200: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL POLICY
3 CREDITS

This course will explore the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian colonialism through social policy and the historic and contemporary relationship to social work. The course further evaluates various policy eras and impacts of colonization, including the 60's scoop, Residential Schools, and Indigenous people's responses to these genocidal policy eras. A central objective of the course is to provide social work students with critical thinking and decolonizing policy analysis skills to practice from an anti-colonial and indigenous perspective. This course will assist students and strengthen their understanding of emerging perspectives on Indigenous social work practice.