SOW 3369 - Social Welfare Policy II

Credits: 3 hrs.

This course is a continuation of SOW 3368. This course provides an assessment of policy as it directly affects service delivery. It examines the responsibilities and roles of a generalist worker in policy development, policy clarification, and change in policy implementation. A conceptual as well as analytic framework is presented for the understanding and analysis of social welfare policy. Further, resource allocation as it relates to policy, planning, and service deliver is presented. This course is also designed to help students toward a fuller understanding of the evolution of social welfare policies and services that pertain to families within rural/urban areas that are within rural and urban areas that are in the line with the program goals. The course aims at broadening students’ repertoire of various family policies pertaining to ethnic minorities and other oppressed populations, and how to advocate for improving family welfare policies and services to attain greater social and economic justice. Prerequisite(s): SOW 3368 and Admission to Upper Division.