Fall 2026 SOWK 430 Class 02 Weekly Email

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I hope that you are all well and excited about moving on to week two. A change you might notice is there are links for Section 0 and Section 2. We had to split this class and have some of you move to section 2. I post the same content in both classes, but I link to a lot of things. This allows me to link to things within each of your specific sections. The heading at the top left of the sidebar will either say “SOWK 430 0 - Ethics in Practice” or “SOWK 430 2 - Ethics in Practice” and that is one way to tell which section you are in. Links will only work for you within your section.

Unit Introduction and What You Will Learn

In week two of SOWK 430, we will be learning more about and discussing the history of social work. Social justice is a core value of social workers (National Association of Social Workers, 2021). This week you get to watch a documentary about the history of social work. In addition, there are forums where you can discuss various social justice movements in the United States. I’ve also included many readings you can choose to read to help situate yourself within each movement. They are all really good, and you can find them at the bottom of the page as a resource. Because the documentary I have you watch is about an hour, I am not creating a lecture video for this week.

Week 02 Objectives:

• Develop foundational knowledge about the first hundred years of social work as a profession.
• Critically consider the history of the social work profession.
• Describe how social workers participated in social movements, and how those movements shaped the profession.
• Connect a historical movement to social work practice or community conditions today.
• Practice using APA in-text citations and reference entries in a scholarly discussion.

Unit Assignments

Watch

• Offenbach’s (2001) documentary, Legacies of Social Change: 100 Years of Professional Social Work in the United States

Optional Readings

• Beck et al. (2003) The Women’s Suffrage Movement: Lessons for Social Action
• Bigony (1979) Attempting to Close the Sacred Circle: The Endeavor of The American Indian Movement
• Gregory (n.d) website Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century
• Jepson (2005) Spaces of Labor Activism, Mexican-American Women and the Farm Worker Movement in South Texas Since 1966
• Korstad and Lichtenstein (1988) Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement
• Pieratos et al. (2021) Land Back: A Meta Narrative to Help Indigenous People Show up as Movement Leaders

W-02 A-01: Asynchronous Class Engagement and Participation

The expectation is that each of your replies will be substantive and provide meaningful perspectives, contributing to the forum’s conversation and scholarship. They can be related to the prompts or building on conversations shared by peers. There are six forums for this week, and you are expected to make at least 3 replies across any of the forums and read all of your peers’ replies. You are not required to reply in every forum — pick the ones that interest you, but read through all of the discussion. These forums include the following:

• Reactions to the hour-long documentary belong in Reflections on Documentary: Legacies of Social Change (Sec 0 or Sec 2), where students respond to what Offenbach (2001) shows about the profession’s first hundred years.
• Students bring their own knowledge, research, or family experience to The American Farm Workers Movement (Sec 0 or Sec 2), tracing what set the movement off, what it won, and how the work continues today.
• The American Indian Movement (Sec 0 or Sec 2) asks about AIM’s founding and strategy, Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and where the movement and #landback stand now.
• Segregation, strategy, and the place of nonviolence anchor The Civil Rights Movement (Sec 0 or Sec 2), including the question of how the movement continues.
• In The Women’s Suffrage Movement (Sec 0 or Sec 2), students look at the barriers to the vote, the tactics used against them, and what the movement still teaches organizers.
• Anything else — LGBTQ+, Black Lives Matter, or a movement a student cares about — has a home in Other Movements (Sec 0 or Sec 2).

Unit Resources

The lecture video this week is a documentary published by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), directed by Offenbach (2001). The documentary Legacies of Social Change: 100 Years of Professional Social Work in the United States can be viewed on YouTube.

For this class, I’m not going to grade forums based on students’ use of APA style. However, it is helpful to practice using the APA style, as it will help you as you continue in the social work program. In your forums, you should include in-text citations and then for the reference list entry, you can just write the word reference and list the entries. This is an excellent opportunity to practice looking up how to do these citations. You don’t need to worry about making it have a hanging indent, but try to have all of the parts of the entries. You can see that I model this throughout this course as well.

Reference

Beck, E. L., Dorsey, E., & Stutters, A. (2003). The women’s suffrage movement: Lessons for social action. Journal of Community Practice, 11(3), 13-33. https://doi.org/10.1300/j125v11n03_02

Bigony, B. A. (1979). Attempting to close the sacred circle: The endeavor of the American Indian movement. Central Issues in Anthropology, 1(2), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1525/cia.1979.1.2.41

Gregory, J (n.d.) Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century. https://depts.washington.edu/moves/index.shtml

Jepson, W. (2005). Spaces of labor activism, Mexican-American women and the farm worker movement in south Texas since 1966. Antipode, 37(4), 679-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00521.x

Korstad, R., & Lichtenstein, N. (1988). Opportunities found and lost: Labor, radicals, and the early civil rights movement. The Journal of American History, 75(3), 786. https://doi.org/10.2307/1901530

National Association of Social Workers. (2021). NASW code of ethics. https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Offenbach, J. (Director). (2001). Legacies of social change: 100 years of professional social work in the United States. [Film]. Educational Film Center, Council on Social Work Education, National Association of Social Workers. Available at https://youtu.be/a4VzRSnksmA

Pieratos, N. A., Manning, S. S., & Tilsen, N. (2021). Land Back: A meta narrative to help indigenous people show up as movement leaders. Leadership, 17(1), 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715020976204

To-Do List

• Watch the documentary
• Complete three replies across any of the forums
• Read all responses in the forums
• Consider reading the optional readings