NGO Education Survey

Critical Thin king and Ethical Evaluation for Assessment and Intervention

This course will enable the student to develop knowledge and skills in critical thinking and ethical evaluation within the context of reflective practice and systematic inquiry. Content will normally include, but not be limited to social work’s historical context, principles of social and personal change, humanism, and issues of social practice and disadvantage.

Leadership for Social Justice

This course will explore leadership for social justice in direct practice and supervision, examining social responsibility as it relates to professional supervision and leadership. It will address frameworks for critical thinking about leadership and supervision in the pursuit of social justice and preventing injustice with the supervisory relationship and within the broader organizational context.

Leadership in Social Policy and Programs

This course focuses on frameworks to develop, analyze and evaluate social policies and programs. The course prepares students to demonstrate the knowledge and skills expected within the context of professional judgements, and competent professional action in evaluating social policies and social programs. The conceptual bases is interdisciplinary with particular attention to the research skills in the evaluation of policies and programs consistent within the social work traditions in community, private, and governmental and not for profit sector.

Perspectives with Diverse Communities

This course is designed to provide students with a critical understanding and appreciation for community social work practice. Fundamental to this understanding is community social work practice with Aboriginal and diverse populations and communities in terms of micro and macro community intervention skill application, capacity-building, leadership, participatory action and social action research methodologies, anti-oppressive practice, and ecological and social justice perspectives. This course explores the many dimensions of community social work within a framework of inquiry that encompasses understanding communities and neighbourhoods; relevant ideological foundations, theories and concepts; practice principles; tensions and dilemmas in practice; integration of individual and community work; contemporary challenges; power politics and conflicts in communities; and community social work as it relates to urban, rural, remote, northern, and Aboriginal communities.

Seminar in Community Development

Seminar in Organization Development

Seminar in Social Administration: Evaluation of Policies and Programs

Seminar in Social Administration: Program Design and Development

Seminar in Social Administration: Social Policy Analysis, Development and Administration

Seminar in Social Planning and Social Development