SOCW 404 - Rel/Ethics & Profession Pract

3 Credit Hours
This course will enable students to recognize and appropriately respond to religious, spiritual, and ethical issues that arise in the context of practice in professional fields such as social work, criminal justice, nursing, psychology and occupational therapy. The main goal is to be able to understand and use a justified reasoning process for ethical decision making that recognizes the role of spirituality for clients and professionals. The following components will be include: critical analysis of the similarities and differences between religion and spirituality; elements of professional ethics such as values, principles, and professional codes; one’s own personal ethical and religious/spiritual perspective; comparison of similarities and differences between and among professional code of ethics across disciplines, steps involved in ethical decision making models; inclusive diversity terminology and how power and privilege influence ethical decision making; and the collaborative application of ethical decision-making to clinical cases in order to learn from one another’s ethical and religious/spiritual wisdom.

Prerequisites: Undergraduate level PHIL100 Minimum grade of D and Undergraduate level THEO111 Minimum grade of D

Course Attributes: Diversity Flag, ERS Focus Elective, Gender & Diversity Studies

Levels: Graduate Undergraduate

College of Professional Sci Social Work