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In this course, we will explore the multifaceted process of developing effective clinical approaches for working with children and families in community-based clinics, agencies, or practice. Combining biopsychosocial, family systems, and trauma lenses, we will look at the impact that environmental contexts have on individuals' abilities, as well as those of entire families, to maximize their relational resources. We will take particular care in exploring the impact that multi-generational trauma (due to various forms of historical and ongoing oppressions) and the social identity of the therapist can have on the efficacy of treatment. Therapeutic collaboration will be a thematic constant throughout the course, as will be identifying approaches in assessment, treatment-planning, and in-the-room interventions that increase a sense of client agency and decrease the risk of pathologizing. Affect regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, and family systems theories will guide the direction of our work—particularly in terms of what brings clients into treatment in the first place. Finally, this course will provide multiple opportunities to practice moving clinical conversations away from the problem-saturated stories that are often one of the leading challenges of working in community-based mental health settings. Expect an interactive class that will utilize case studies and experiential exercises, and will have us all learning skills to effectively work with children and their families in community settings.
- Instructor: Amy Bauman
- Instructor: Amy Bauman
Category: SSW S16
In this course, students use intersectionality theories to critically analyze scholarly and activist writings that expose and interrogate the spectrum of legal and extralegal individual, collective, and institutional anti-black violence in the United States from slavery to the present. Students also investigate dominant narratives on blackness, whiteness, and white terrorist violence in print media, such as post-Civil War era lynching photographs and lynching advertisements, and eyewitness video footage and television news reports on police violence targeting blacks from the 1960s to 2016. The discourses of marginalized and traditionally unheard voices critique and challenge the implicitly and explicitly gendered, classed, and sexualized racist discourses that animate, perpetuate, and justify anti-black violence in particular, and intersecting structural racism in general. Students will leave the course with an understanding that racist violence is historical (or deeply rooted in the past), ongoing, ideologically-premised, institutionalized, and fundamentally enmeshed with multiple oppressions, including sexism, classism, heterosexism, and cissexism; therefore, effective antiracist activist responses to anti-black violence must be intersectional and inclusive. This course supports students’ work to become effective social work practitioners attentive to the ways in which the historical, convergent dynamics of race and racism, class and classism, sexuality and heterosexism, gender and cissexism, and violence might influence their engagement with the individuals, communities, and institutions they encounter in the field. The course also supports student efforts to integrate intersectional anti-racist politics into their clinical practices.
- Instructor: Leigh-Anne Francis
Category: SSW S16
This course examines historical, critical and theoretical perspectives on the development of Black feminist theory/praxis. The course draws from the 19th century to the present, but focuses on the contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that achieved notoriety in the 1970s and initiated a global debate on “Western” and global feminisms. Central to our exploration is the analysis of the intersectional relationship between theory and practice, and of race, to gender and class. We conclude the course with the exploration of various expressions of contemporary Black feminist thought around the globe as a way of broadening our knowledge of feminist theory.
- Instructor: Paul Joseph Lopez Oro
Category: Spring 2020-2021
Course Description:
Colloquium: Methods of Inquiry in Africana Studies is designed to introduce students to how we do the work of Africana Studies. Through study of a single topic, students will be introduced to and employ methods of inquiry that speak to the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of the field of Africana Studies.
Focused on Blackness and water (broadly conceived), this course will tend to Tiffany Lethabo King’s claim in The Black Shoals, Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies that “Water, most often the ocean, has been Black studies’ most faithful metaphor”:
Land is not the traditional element used to analogize Black flux or
think about dynamic, fluid, and ever moving Black diasporic subjectivity.
Rarely does land evoke the kind of flexibility, elusiveness, and trickster-like
qualities that Black diasporic life symbolizes in the Western Hemisphere.
Water, most often the ocean, has been Black studies’ most faithful metaphor.
Across eight framing units, students will read/view/listen to works by Black scholars, writers, and creatives that showcase the ways in which Africana Studies, in praxis, interfaces with water (broadly conceived). Once introduced to a variety of methods in Africana Studies, students will then apply those methods to a selection of corresponding texts/media on Blackness and water (broadly conceived). Framing units include but are not limited to Black Atlantic Oceanics as Archive, African Atlantic Water Cultures, The Liquid of Black Freedoms, and The Oceanic Age of Blackness.
- Instructor: Karla Zelaya
Category: 2023 Fall Semester