Course Description
This course examines social welfare policy and its implications on micro and macro level systems in historical and current day perspectives, and in the context of political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of society. This course centers on policy practice, including advocacy, and the process of policy formulation/development, implementation, and evaluation/analysis at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Special attention is placed on policy development and implementation, including but not limited to racism, sexism, ageism, faithism, ableism, classism, and heterosexism. Additionally, the course will review the history of social work from the early 1900’s and the profession’s response to human need and social conditions across the lifespan in the context of U.S. social welfare policies.