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Participation in our learning community will include your attendance in class, participation in discussion boards, connection with each other, etc. Basically, anything you do to show your engagement and participation in our community. You will have a chance to collaborate with me on what grade you should receive here, by writing a reflection about how you participated this semester. More information on the syllabus.

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I will be hanging out Zoom to meet with you about anything you want to talk about! It could be school, life, whatever. I'll be on from 1:00-2:00 pm on Tuesdays. Zoom link will be on Blackboard.

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The college has a Voting Rights Initiative running through the end of September. Here is the itinerary:
Aug 31:  Dr. Suzanne Pritzker zoom lecture
Sept 2: Voter Deputy Zoom training
Sept 13: Administrator Longoria lecture (mode TBD)
Sept 27- Oct 1: Voter registration drive (in person)

2 points for participation in each activity, OR do them all and you get 10 points. Gotta sweeten the deal! ;)

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This course is completely open access. That means you don't need to purchase any textbooks. All the readings and any other type of course content will be available online completely free of cost to you!

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Sign up for chapter presentations and discussions here on this google doc link. Make sure to add your email address, so that the group members can reach you!

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A groups of 2-3 students will give a 20 min presentation on the readings of the week. This entails presenting the key

points in the book chapter on PowerPoint (including short video clips or any media that helps explain the key points) and creating a handout for the class for students to keep. There is a sign up sheet on google docs where you can sign up for which presentation you want to make.

Sign-up sheet below.

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Discussions - You will sign up to lead a discussion for the class, and you one of two options: a class movie, OR a "social justice in the news" discussion.

a) I have assigned 3 social justice movies in the class.
b) The social justice in the news assignment is where you and your team of 2-3 people will collaborate and choose a news article that has a social justice issue attached to it.

For both: Together, you will create a padlet asking discussion questions, so fellow class members can write their comments. More information on this presented in a video. The due date for the presenters is Sunday night the week it is assigned.

The rest of the class has until the next week on Wednesday at noon to respond to the questions, and the presenters will need to be actively monitoring and responding to the padlet.

Sign-up sheet below.

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Quizzes are assigned for the chapter readings. You can take the quiz up to 5 times. Open book. Unlimited time. I just want to make sure we are reading the material. ;) No stress!

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The grades for this course are broken into several parts: a) quizzes, b)Class discussions, c)Chapter presentations, and d)participation.

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In this course we will be focusing on learning about social justice issues and ethics in social work.

The first couple of weeks we will focus on understanding what social justice is, and then looking at one of the biggest social justice issues happening right now-voting rights.

Afterwards, we will begin to learn about ethical issues in social work practice, examine our NASW Code of Ethics, and discuss cases to help us develop a framework for our own ethical practice.