Event Details
Online Info Session – SWRK 772: Postcolonial Social Work Practice: International Social Welfare in India
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Want to study in India this summer? Learn more next week during the online information session with Dr. TJ Ghose.
Additional information about this course and other global programs is available here.
Course Description:
This course counts as a clinical practice elective and a macro practice elective
In this course, students examine the global welfare system and its engagement with marginalized communities. This six-week course in Kolkata, India, centers around a sex workers’ collaborative in Sonagachi, one of Asia’s largest red light districts. Interviews with the collaborative’s workers and study of their grassroots movement are combined with class discussions and research projects in which students engage with texts on HIV, sex work, feminist postcolonial theory and international social work.
For more information about this event, please contact Emily McCully: emccully@upenn.edu.