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Dec 06, 2025
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SW 2601C - Social Welfare Overview and Trends
The first of a two-course sequence that covers the social welfare policy and services content of the foundation curriculum for undergraduate social work education. Introduces the basic concepts, social work values, ethics, and principles to understand social welfare programs and services through a social justice lens. Explores the historical context and evolution of social welfare policy and how the dominant values, contextual factors, and ideologies shape policy in a broad range of social welfare arenas. This course requires 20 hours of service learning.
Requisites: SW 1000 and ENG 1510 or ENG 1610
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: TAG course: OSS030 Introduction to Social Welfare
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to describe the importance of advocacy for human rights at the individual, family, group, organizational, and community systems levels.
- Students will be able to identify anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice at the individual, family, group, organizational, community, research, and policy levels.
- Students will be able to demonstrate cultural humility to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies.
- Students will be able to analyze social welfare policies using social justice, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lenses.
- Students will be able to connect social work coursework to practice in adapting to service-learning contexts.
- Students will be able to reflect on their learning in and outside the classroom and articulate how it will apply to future situations.
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