Course and site listing for Louise Cainkar
SOWJ 1001: Introduction to Social Welfare and Justice
Course Learning Objectives that are related to Service Learning:
- Identify various issues of social justice and inequality encountered by the Milwaukee community
- Understand the difference between charity and justice
- Apply systems theory to work in the community
- Identify the impact of generational poverty on community members
- Identify community assets
- Understand and know the policies, laws, programs, agencies, and welfare systems that exist which either support or hinder the empowerment of at-risk populations
- Reflect upon personal vocation, values, and privileges in a social justice context
- Demonstrate an improved appreciation and awareness for diverse populations
- Understand how race, social class, sexual orientation, religion and gender all intersect and create power dynamics within the community.
- Identify root causes of injustice
- Identify micro/macro/mezzo level interventions that could positively impact and empower the population and community.
Placement options:
- Adult Learning Center
- AIDS Resource Center
- Benedict Center
- Cathedral Center
- Central City Churches Emergency Needs Ministry
- City on a Hill
- COA Youth and Family
- Council for the Spanish Speaking
- Empowering Latinos
- English Language Partners
- Guadalupe Head Start Programs
- Guest House
- Hope House
- International Learning Center
- La Causa Crisis Nursery
- Marquette University Volunteer Legal Clinic
- Midnight Run
- Milwaukee Achiever Literacy Services
- Milwaukee Center for Independence
- Next Door Foundation
- Operation Dream
- Our Next Generation
- Pan African Community Association
- Penfield Children's Center
- Project Return
- Reach Out and Read
- Rescue Mission
- St. Ann's Center for Intergenerational Care
- St. Ann's Rest Home
- St. Anthony School
- Urban Ecology Center
- YMCA Tutoring Sponsor-A-Scholar
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