SWO 705 Power, Passion, and Social Change

This course is designed to prepare students for diverse roles in organizational leadership with a focus on shifting institutional culture, creating social change, and advancing antiracist policies and practices. Students will deepen their knowledge of organizational theories and concepts of power, privilege, and oppression within institutional frameworks. Students will develop the strategies for effective change leadership — including organizational assessment and analysis, adaptive solution-finding, and leveraging their own vantage point and positionality within an organization.