Social Science Question

Through this assignment, students will:

  • Recognize how Canadian social welfare systems operate in everyday life
    Develop skills in critical observation and reflexive analysis
    Identify how social policies, institutions and government programs shape daily experiences
    Apply course concepts related to power, ideology, inequality, and the welfare state
    Strengthen academic writing skills appropriate for first-year social work study
    This assignment provides students with an opportunity to move from abstract understandings of social policy to
    concrete, lived observations, building foundational skills in structural thinking and reflexivity that are central to
    social work education and practice.
    This assignment is a summative assessment of the following course learning outcomes:
    LO1: Recognize the role of diversity in society and the existence of multiple perspectives on social welfare
    issues
    LO2: Describe social, historical, economic, legal, political, institutional and cultural structures that
    produce and limit human and civil rights
    LO5: Construct analyses or arguments that properly integrate research or information from multiple
    disciplines
    This assignment also contributes to the development of the following BSW Program Learning Outcomes:
    BSWLO1: Develop professional identity as a social worker
    BSWLO3: Develop an ethical, responsible professional practice
    BSWLO4: Recognize and challenge colonialism in social work
    BSWLO7: Advance equity and social justice within social work role
    BSWLO8: Resist racism and develop anti-racist practice
    BSWLO10: Apply values and ethics in professional practice
    BSWLO12: Apply knowledge and skills in policy analysis and development
    Overview
    (Copied from course outline):
    This assignment introduces students to the idea that the welfare state is present in everyday life. Social
    welfare systems are not limited to formal programs or services; they shape daily routines, environments,
    and interactions in visible and invisible ways.
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