Family Studies 260: Storytelling, Healing and Family in Aboriginal and Maori Cultures
This course immerses students in the narrative, storytelling culture of Indigenous Australian and New Zealand peoples, the Aboriginal and Maori cultures. Students gain an understanding of the history of these peoples, their family culture, and storytelling as a healing and powerful force. Students study Narrative Family Therapy and learn to articulate the parallels between it and Aboriginal and Maori culture. Students also learn to apply this theory to their own lived experience. Prerequisite: One of the following: FAMST 132, FAMST 242, SWRK 120, SWRK 122, PSYCH 125, SOAN 121, SOAN 128, SOAN 262, RACE 121, RACE 252.
Social Work in the Latin American Context
The Cuernavaca, Mexico, spring semester program is for social work students in their junior year. The goal of the program is to develop cross-culturally competent, ethical social work professionals with a global perspective by providing a semester of transformative experiential learning focused on social and economic justice.