SOCWORK 4QQ3 - Indigenizing Social Work Practice Approaches

3 unit(s)

This course examines the social worker’s role and responsibility in working with diverse Indigenous peoples such as First Nation, Metis and Inuit living on reserve and in urban areas. The concept and process of ethical tensions indigenizing social work practice approaches will be connected to indigenous philosophy and epistemology with the approach of understanding and building relationships and reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, as well practices within the social work profession.
Lectures, discussion, exercises; one term
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Social Work or Labour Studies program; or SOCWORK 1AA3 or 1BB3; and registration in Level III or above of any program.
Antirequisite(s): SOCWORK 3Q03.
Not open to students with credit in SOCWORK 4G03 if the topic was Indigenizing Social Work Practice Approaches.
Students are strongly encouraged to take SOCWORK 3I03 before taking SOCWORK 4QQ3.