SWK 113 61P, Fall 2010

Course No Course Title CL LB CLINIC CR
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

 

5.       Class Five:  Thursday, September 16, 2010

 

6.       Class Six: Thursday, September 23, 2010

 

7.       Class Seven:  Thursday, September 30, 2010

 

8.       Class Eight:  Thursday, October 7, 2010

 

9.       Class Nine:  Thursday, October 21, 2010

 

10.   Class Ten:  Thursday, October 28, 2010

 

11.   Class Eleven:  Thursday, November 4, 2010

 

12.   Class Twelve:  Thursday, November 18, 2010

 

13.   Class Thirteen:  Thursday, December 2, 2010

 

14.   Class Fourteen:  Thursday, December 9, 2010

 

15.   Class Fifteen:  Tuesday, December 14, 2010 

 

16.   Class Sixteen: Thursday, December 16, 2010

 

 

Online weeks (Please note that the week number does not necessarily correspond with the class number - these are two separate schedules).

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

 

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