Courses - Queering Social Work: Sexual and Gender Diversity SLWK 6003   Queering Social Work: Sexual and Gender Diversity
CREDIT HOURS: 3
This course provides an overview of queer history and oppressive social policies and practices and emphasizes activism, social movements, pride and visible community building. It will explore why queer social work education, research and practice are important to inclusive and relevant social work practice and demonstrates how queer theory critically disrupts problematic everyday assumptions about social life including heteronormativity and homonormativity. This course will emphasize sexual and gender diversity, identity, and expression and multiple intersecting oppressions within LGBTTQI+ communities.
FORMAT: Lecture
RESTRICTIONS: MSW