SWK 113 61P, Fall 2010
| Course No | Course Title | CL | LB | CLINIC | CR |
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| SWK 113 | Working with Diversity | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| This course examines and promotes understanding, sensitivity, awareness, and knowledge of human diversity. Emphasis is placed on professional responsibilities, duties, and skills critical to multicultural human services practice. Upon completion, students should be able to integrate and expand knowledge, skills, and cultural awareness relevant to diverse populations. | |||||
Required Textbooks:
Diller, J.V. (2011). Cultural diversity: A primer for human services, 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. ISBN: 978-0-8400-3225-6.
Plous, S. (Ed.). Understanding prejudice and discrimination. Boston: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. ISBN: 0-07-255443-6 (this will be loaned to you from the LRC because it is no longer published, but it is a great resource to have and you can probably find it pretty inexpensively so you may want to get your own copy).
| Class meeting | Class Activities |
| 1. Class One: Thursday, August 19, 2010 |
Introductory Activities. Review of syllabus and hybrid course parameters. Can you Explain it? Activity |
| 2. Class Two: Thursday, August 26, 2010 |
The green-haired people exercise and discussion. |
| 3. Class Three: Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
Vanessa Bass, Reference Librarian will talk about Genealogy Project. Exploration of PBS activity. |
| 4. Class Four: Thursday, September 9, 2010 |
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| 5. Class Five: Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
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| 6. Class Six: Thursday, September 23, 2010 |
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| 7. Class Seven: Thursday, September 30, 2010 |
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| 8. Class Eight: Thursday, October 7, 2010 |
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| 9. Class Nine: Thursday, October 21, 2010 |
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| 10. Class Ten: Thursday, October 28, 2010 |
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| 11. Class Eleven: Thursday, November 4, 2010 |
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| 12. Class Twelve: Thursday, November 18, 2010 |
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| 13. Class Thirteen: Thursday, December 2, 2010 |
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| 14. Class Fourteen: Thursday, December 9, 2010 |
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| 15. Class Fifteen: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 |
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| 16. Class Sixteen: Thursday, December 16, 2010 |
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Online weeks (Please note that the week number does not necessarily correspond with the class number - these are two separate schedules).
· Week One: Thursday, August 19, 2010 through Sunday, August 29, 2010: Module One
· Week Two: Monday, August 30, 2010 through Sunday, September 5, 2010: Module Two
· Week Three: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 through Sunday, September 12, 2010: Module Three
· Week Four: Monday, September 13, 2010 through Sunday, September 19, 2010: Module Four
· Week Five: Monday, September 20, 2010 through Sunday, September 26, 2010: Module Five:
· Week Six: Monday, September 27, 2010 through Sunday, October 3, 2010: Module Six
· Week Seven: Monday, October 4, 2010 through Sunday, October 10. 2010: Module Seven
· Week Eight: Monday, October 11, 2010 through Wednesday, October 13, 2010 and Monday, October 18, 2010: Module Eight
· Week Nine: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 through Sunday, October 24, 2010: Module Nine
· Week Ten: Monday, October 25, 2010 through Sunday, October 31, 2010: Module Ten
· Week Eleven: Monday, November 1, 2010 through Sunday, November 7, 2010: Module Eleven
· Week Twelve: Monday, November 8, 2010 through Sunday, November 14, 2010: Module Twelve
· Week Thirteen: Monday, November 15, 2010 through Sunday, November 21, 2010: Module Thirteen
· Week Fourteen: Monday, November 22, 2010 through Tuesday, November 23, 2010 and Monday, November 29, 2010 through Sunday, December 5, 2010: Module Fourteen
· Week Fifteen: Monday, December 6, 2010 through Sunday, December 12, 2010: Module Fifteen
· Week Sixteen: Monday, December 19, 2010 through Saturday, December 18, 2010: Module Sixteen
Topics (Please note that the nature of this class involves going back and forth between topics; the chapters will not necessarily be reviewed in the order suggested by the topic list)
I: Cultural Competence
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: What It Means to Be Culturally Competent.
II: Defining and Understanding prejudice and discrimination
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Three: Understanding Racism, Prejudice, and White Privilege.
Chapter Four: Understanding Culture and Cultural Differences.
B. Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter I: Homo Stereotypus: Wired For Trouble
Chapter II: Stigmatization
III: History of Racism
A: Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter III: Racism Then
Chapter IV: Racism Now
IV: General Special Topics:
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Five: Children and Parents of Color
Chapter Six: Mental Health Issues.
Chapter Seven: Bias in Service Delivery.
Chapter Eight: Critical Issues in Working with Culturally Different Clients.
Chapter Nine: Addressing Ethnic Conflict, Genocide, and Mass Violence.
V: Specific Topics: Heterosexism
B. Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter VIII: Heterosexism
VI: Specific Topics: Sexism
B. Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter V: Sexism
VII: Specific Topics: Latino/Hispanic Populations
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Ten: Working with Latino/a Clients: An Interview with Roberto Almanzan.
VIII: Specific Topics: Indigenous Populations
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Eleven: Working with Native American Clients: An Interview with Jack Lawson
B. Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter VII: Genocide in America
IX: Specific Topics: Black/African-American Populations
A. Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Twelve: Working with African American Clients: An Interview with Veronique Thompson.
X: Specific Topics: Anti-Semitism
Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Fifteen: Working with White Ethnic Clients: An Interview with the Author.
Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter VI: Anti-Semitism
XI: Specific Topics: Asian-American and Muslim Populations
Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Thirteen: Working with Asian American Clients: An Interview with Dan Hocoy.
Chapter Fourteen: Working with Arab and Muslim American Clients: An Interview with Marwan Dwairy
XII: Making Changes
Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services chapters:
Chapter Sixteen: Some Closing Thoughts
Understanding prejudice and discrimination chapters:
Chapter IX: Making Connections
Chapter X: Reducing Prejudice
Subject to change!
Module One:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter one (Introduction)
· Chapter two (What it means to be culturally competent)
Module two:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter I (Homo Stereotypus: Wired for Trouble, pp. 1-62)
Module three:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· “Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition?” (pp. 49-60). (Reread)
From Cultural diversity: A primer for human services:
· Chapter three: Understanding racism, prejudice and white privilege
Module four:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for human services:
· Chapter four: Understanding Culture and Cultural Differences
Module Five:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter II: Stigmatization (pp. 63-110)
Module Six:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter III: Racism Then (pp. 111-164)
Module Seven:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter IV: Racism Now (pp. 165-212)
From Cultural diversity: A primer for human services:
· Chapter twelve: Working with African American clients: An interview with Veronique Thompson (pp. 235-253)
Module Eight:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter 6: Mental health issues (pp. 112-135)
Module Nine:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter ten: Working with Latino/a clients: An interview with Roberto Almanzan
Module Ten:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter eleven: Working with Native American Clients: An Interview with Jack Lawson in Cultural diversity
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter VII: Genocide in America in Understanding prejudice and discrimination
Module Eleven:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter VI: Anti-Semitism
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services
· Chapter fourteen: Working with White Ethnic Clients: An Interview with the Author in Cultural diversity
Module Twelve:
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter thirteen: Working with Asian American Clients: An Interview with Dan Hocoy
· Chapter nine: Addressing Ethnic Conflict, Genocide, and Mass Violence
Module Thirteen:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter VIII: Heterosexism
Module Fourteen:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter V (Sexism) in Understanding prejudice and discrimination (Plous text).
Module Fifteen:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter IX: Making Connections in Understanding prejudice and discrimination
From Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services:
· Chapter sixteen: Some Closing Thoughts in Cultural diversity
Module Sixteen:
From Understanding prejudice and discrimination:
· Chapter X: Reducing Prejudice
For extra credit:
· Appendix: Animals as an outgroup in Understanding prejudice and discrimination