SOC 423 - Critical Perspectives on the Child Welfare System

(3 units)

Prerequisites: GE Foundation.
Explores child maltreatment in the U.S., including changing definitions of maltreatment. Covers the history of state-supported family interventions, including efforts to protect children. Critically examines today’s child welfare system, focusing on how race, class, and gender shape the system and families’ experiences.

Both grading options. Not open for credit to students with credit in SW 423.