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2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Sep 10, 2024
 
2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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SWWEL 3030 - EVAL OF AMERICAN SOCIAL WELFARE


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Emphasizes a conceptual and analytical approach to the study of American social welfare. Extending from the Elizabethan poor laws to the 1930s new deal, and to the present, it deals with social welfare in relation to a number of central themes in American society, including the interaction among the ideologies of individualism, voluntarism, and collectivism; the conflict between opportunity-mobility and security objectives; and the nature of the social reform and social control processes in a pluralistic society.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis
Course Requirements: School of Social Work students only.


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