Last semester, Sustainable Silver approached the Department Chairs Commitee in the School of Social Work in order to begin a discussion about the creation of an elective in Social Work and Environmental Justice. The Department Chairs Committee was very receptive, and asked us to create a formal elective proposal. We did, and they have suggested that we make it a one-credit, ten-hour mini-course next fall in order to gauge student interest, which we are very excited about! Problem is, we need to find someone to teach it. If any readers of this blog have any ideas of people or organizations to contact, please do pass them on to Shane at shanecraryross@gmail.com, or below in the comments!
Here’s the proposal:
2 Comments
August 26, 2009 at 5:03 pm
While looking for Environmental Justice websites as it relates to social work, I stumbled upon your blog. I am a second year social work student at Columbia University co-facilitating a Green Caucus. It began last February and we are hoping to kick off a fantastic year with many events planned. I would love to collaborate/share ideas with you all. Please let me know if you are interested! We would love to have you at some of our events.
Take Care,
Julie Falchuk
MSSW Candidate, 2010
August 31, 2009 at 2:43 pm
hi,
I’m a new student at the University of Maryland at Baltimore SSW and I’ve been looking for a class like this here in Baltimore. This class looks amazing – I will mention it to my advisor and also start looking for env justice organizations in Baltimore that might want to partner with our school to start a similar class. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!