Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Michigan/Social Work Practice with Community and Social Systems (Winter 2014)/Course description

This course will prepare students to engage in integrated practice focused on utilizing community and social systems to support and empower individuals, families, and communities and envision and work towards social justice goals. The course will include skills for entering, assessing, and working collaboratively with client systems and their social networks, including assessment of power differences and building on diversity within the community. This course will build on practice methods presented in the foundation courses and give special attention to partnership, strengths based, and empowering models of practice and those that further social justice goals. Special emphasis will be placed on conducting this work in a multicultural context with vulnerable and oppressed populations and communities and to identify and reduce the consequences of unrecognized privilege

'''Assignment 3. Skills module/Wikipedia Project .''' Work on a set of specific skills for CSS practice and then write a Wikipedia article that describes that specific skill.

Skills Module We will divide into teams to work on/develop approaches to these, with each team responsible for a part of a class session for some activity that demonstrates/teaches those skills to the class. You will work closely with the instructor for this component. Topics may include (some type of prevention; skills for engaging with conflict; advocacy; group facilitation; consultation; planning; collaboration, coalitions; strategic planning; program design; other?) Your goals are to research what is available on your topic, design an educational session for the class (1 hour) with appropriate goals, activities, desired outcomes, and resource materials to facilitate their continued learning.

Wikipedia Project Description

Overview: You and your partner will either create or substantially improve a Wikipedia site on a social work practice related topic, invoking concepts learned in class.

Why: The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, writing this article will sharpen your understanding of your practice skill and will force you to condense large amount of information into a cogent article. As students from the #1 School of Social Work you will be instrumental in making social work practices and methods more accessible, globally by creating easily an accessible Wikipedia article that is available to the public.

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