Spring full time BSW elective.
Only one submission per student and you will be enrolled on a first come first serve basis.
Please choose one of these electives:
SWREN 431R: Fields of Practice Research:
This course examines contemporary fields of practice. Attention is given to historical developments, service delivery systems, and practices. Research activities help develop a critical understanding of how social experience impacts the ways that people with diverse experiences access and encounter some of the major fields of practice.
OR
SWREN 471R: Social Work with Older Adults: Critical Issues and Future Trends:
Focusing on social work practice, policy and research, the course examines issues of aging such as health, economic changes, role transition, family dynamics and losses. The course also looks at implications of societal issues and the influence of recent Canadian research in the field of aging. Current innovative and traditional programs will be examined for their relevance for future work with populations of older adults.
OR
SWREN 490R: Deyohahage: Gihę’gowahneh / Two Row on the Grand: Land-based learning: Cultural Resurgence, Respect & Reconciliation:
This land/water-based interdisciplinary and experiential course will join the Two Row on the Grand participants in a community-based and organized 10-day canoe paddle from Cambridge, Ontario to Port Maitland, Ontario (163 km) (http://www.tworowonthegrand.com/).
The course will explore Indigenous and decolonizing theoretical knowledge, skills, and practices that are guided by the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace and the original peace treaty Deyohahage: Gihę’ gowahneh - Two Row Wampum between the Haudenosaunee and settler nations/communities.
If you are interested in taking SWREN 490R in the spring, please email Brenda Maciel at brenda.maciel@uwaterloo.ca by 4:30pm Friday February 9th. You will be contacted next week to arrange a meeting with the Director of the School of Social Work. If you are not selected for registration in SWREN 490R, you will be registered into one of the other electives