SOWK 0098/6246: An Inspiring Journey: Working with People with Disabilities
Social workers/Professionals who work with people with disabilities (PWDs) nowadays should have critical mind and self-reflective attitudes to meet the challenges from the changing field of disabilities. To enhance quality of life of people with disabilities, social workers should have sensitivity to understand situations of individuals with disabilities, and have substantial knowledge of intervening in different levels of environments.
This course introduces students the paradigm shift in the field, the evolution of services, and contemporary approaches to provide services to people with disabilities. Providing students an insightful learning process, this course uses interactive and experiential activities/projects besides traditional one-way lectures. Guests like service users with disabilities, their caregivers or social workers would be invited to class to share their life experience. Students also have close-up contacts with them through the interesting course projects.
SOWK 3015 & 3016: Social Work Practice Laboratory I & II (Co-teaching)
BSW Theory and Practice courses have been using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and skills laboratory is one of the components. Skills laboratory is composed of in-house skills training and field projects. In the in-house skills training, teaching activities are structured to help students master the basic communication and social work practice skills, and students are guided to apply the learned skills in field projects.
CCCHU9010: Being Different: Understanding People with Disabilities (Co-teaching)
The course focuses on disability as a social phenomenon and social construct and engages students to look into the everyday life situations that people with disabilities commonly encounter and to examine these issues through the critical lens of sociology, politics, culture and social policies. Students will be engaged to critically examine some of the stereotypical images of people with disabilities, particularly myths and erroneous assumptions about people with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities. Students will explore and reflect on their personal attitudes and how these attitudes have been shaped by the media, cultural representations and medical and social sciences knowledge. The course will include lectures, film shows, in-class discussions and tutorials. Students will need to carry out a group project in partnership with an NGO or self-help organizations of people with disabilities.