SW 135A International Experience for Social Workers
This course is designed to provide students with an international learning opportunity aimed at stimulating and expanding students’ perspectives in cross-cultural and cross-national human services systems. It encourages students to experience, first-hand, new international and cross-cultural learning in a variety of human service settings. The focus is on application of knowledge, values, and skills, and the problem-solving process to human service services policy, programs/services, and practices. The course content views the impact of gender, culture, ethnicity, economic status, sexual orientation, religion/spirituality, age, generation and ability across the lifespan on human service issues. Students enrolled in this course will be required to participate in a short-term travel study opportunity. The course can be taken for 1.0-6.0 units. May be repeated for credit. GE 5C.
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