SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture 11: Social November 1st (SWAT Test Information, Help, Great Depression, Individualism)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1A06
• Professor: Anne Fudge Schormans

Document Summary

Partially based on marks and based on your test scores. Takes 3 hours to complete 6 hours allowed. Why you want to be in the program and what you can bring to the program. Understand the roles of the social worker in society. Understanding of the social issues that impact society. Reflect on why you want to be in the program beforehand. You are eligible to reapply if denied first time. Around march graded and reviewed until may or june. Up to now, the focus has been on help and its connection to morality and individualism. Value based ideas that work very much to include and privilege some (ex: white, male, Christian, middle-class, able, heterosexual) and actively exclude, devalue, and at times punish others (pretty much everyone else) Notions of good and bad, desired and reviled, worthy and unworthy dominated ideas and practices of helping.