SWK 113 Spring 2006

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.

SWK 113 Spring 2006 Syllabus

Spring 2006 Journal Questions

Date

 Class Activities Homework (in addition to Black Board online assignments)
  1. Monday, January 9, 2006
 1.  Hybrid class assistance from Libbie McPhaul-Moore. 2.  Introductory exercise with golden rule quotations. 3.  Introducing partners.  4. Syllabus review.  5. Describing smile or frown on a stick. 6. Discussion of biases.

Complete journal entries for today’s class.

By Wednesday, January 11:  Take the quiz at understandingprejudice.org by following the directions under assignments on Blackboard.

By Sunday, January 15, 2006:  Read chapter one in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination and answer the questions.

Week Two:

For Monday, January 23, 2006:  Turn in homework for chapter one at the beginning of class, and read chapter two in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination.

 
  1. Monday, January 23, 2006
 1. Green Haired People exercise and discussion.  2.  Watched beginning of film, Family Name. 1) Read chapter one in Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services and answer the questions.  2) Read chapter (section) two, Stigmatization, from Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination and answer questions. 3) Complete journal entries for today’s class.
  1. Monday, January 30, 2006
 1.  Shodop Island exercise and discussion. Visitor Lesley Williams. 1) Read chapters two and three in Cultural Diversity, and answer questions. 2) Exercise 2, page 55 (with format from exercise 1)  3) Complete journal entries for today’s class.
  1. Monday, February 6, 2006
 1.  Black History Month Quiz # 1. 2.  Continued to watch Family Name, with discussion. 3.  Journal entry and submission. 1) Read chapter three in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination and answer questions.  2) Extra Credit:  Explain the origin of the term "Jim Crow."   Remember to include properly cited references.  3) Start working on children's book on prejudice (due March 6, 2006).  You can talk with your other group members through the group pages
  1. Monday, February 13, 2006
 1. Black History Month Quiz # 2. 2)Terri Hamrick discusses the Bahai faith. 1) Read chapter four in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination and answer questions. 2) Work on your group book about prejudice. 3) Extra Credit:  Go to: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1998/familyname/search/index.html (reference:  PBS. (2006). Search for your family name.  Retrieved February 12, 2006 from: http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov1998/familyname/search/index.html.) 4) Complete journal entries for today’s class.

Look for information about your family name and write about what you found.  Due at the beginning of class on February 20, 2006.
  1. Monday, February 20, 2006
 1) Black History Month Quiz # 3; 2) Michael Tino discusses Unitarian-Universalism 3) Michael Tino discusses sexual orientation
 
  1.  After class on Monday, February 20, 2006:  You should do the four journal entries for that class.
  2. Answer homework questions from chapter nine in Cultural Diversity
  3. Extra credit assignment on finding out more about your name (deadline extended)
  4. Continue to work on developing a children’s book on prejudice and use your group discussion board on blackboard to use to work as a group.  The final project will be due March 6, 2006
  5. Remember that your journals are due next week.
 
  1. Monday, February 27, 2006
 1) Black History Month Quiz #4; 2) Wongong So discusses Won Buddhism. 
  1. Wednesday, March 1, 2006:  Answer the discussion board question on the week eight discussion board, by 8:00 p.m.
  2. Sunday, March 5, 2006: 1) Respond to two students’ posts on the week eight discussion board, by 8:00 p.m.  2) Submit the homework assignment on the Hispanic population by 8:00 pm, as an email attachment.
  3. Monday, March 6th, 2006: At the beginning of class, submit the homework assignment from chapter ten in Cultural diversity and submit your children’s book.
 
  1. Monday, March 6, 2006
 1) Finished Family Name 2) Reviewed children's books. Complete the questions from chapter ten.  Complete your journal entry for today.
  1. Monday, March 13, 2006
 Video and discussion  1) Journal entries; 2) Read chapter Seven in Understanding prejudice and discrimination, and answer the questions
  1. Monday, March 20, 2006
 Native People's Activities 1) Journal entries.  2) Read chapter twelve in Cultural diversity and answer the questions
  1. Monday, March 27, 2006
 An Unlikely Friendship DVD 1) Journal entries.  2) Questions from An Unlikely Friendship
  1. Monday, April 3, 2006
 Activities on African American History 1) Journal entries. 2)Read chapter eleven in  Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services and answer the questions. 
  1. Monday, April 10, 2006
 Our House video and discussion 1) Journal entries. 2)Read Chapter VIII in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination:  Heterosexism and answer questions.
  1. Monday, April 24, 2006
 America and the Holocaust video 1) Journal entries. 2) Read Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination: Chapter VI:  Anti-Semitism and answer the questions.
  1. Monday, May 1, 2006
 Rest of America and the Holocaust video and discussion 1) Journal entries

2) Read chapter IX in Understanding prejudice and discrimination.  There will be a short quiz on this chapter in the next class.

3) Read chapter X in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination. 

4) Answer the four questions in the textbook on page 464, and come up with seven other important points from this chapter. 

 
  1. Monday, May 8, 2006
 Discussion/quiz lunch?