NCU MSW5001 Week 1 Assignment Latest 2021 June

MSW5001 Human Behaviour and the Social Environment

Week 1 Assignment

Examine Fundamental Human Rights and Barriers to Social and Economic Justice in an Oppressed Population

Instructions

Choose one of the following areas of Human Rights practice to serve as your topic for this assignment: Children's Rights, Immigrant Justice, Economic Justice, or Criminal Justice Reform.

Prepare a brief Video Note and a written summary of your video.

Address the following in your video:

Provide a brief description of the target topic.

Understanding that "every person regardless of position in society has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education" (CSWE, 2015), discuss the right or rights that are being violated for people in your focus population

Examine the social and economic issues that affect this population. Describe our "culture’s structures and values, including social, economic, political, and cultural exclusions, [that] may oppress, marginalize, alienate” (CSWE, 2015) this group of people.

Analyze the role of the social worker in the fight for social, economic, and environmental justice for people in your selected population. (Recall information from MSW-5000 on social work roles).

Be sure to include specific examples that illustrate the need for this social justice cause to be addressed by those in the social work profession.

NOTE: You may use your topic from this week for your Signature Assignment.

Support your assignment with at least two scholarly resources.

To create a video note: Select the Record video option in the assignment submission area. You will need your webcam to complete this video. Press the New Recording button when you are ready to record your video note and the Stop Recording when finished. Click the Add button to include the video in your assignment submission. Note, the Video Note tool records a maximum of 3 minutes. Plan on splitting your video into multiple segments if need be. Alternatively, you may use Kaltura Capture within NCUOne, or you may use other video software that allows you to save your video as an mp4 for uploading.

Alternate assignment: If you do not have access to a webcam, prepare a 3-5 page paper addressing the criteria noted above.

Length: Short video clip plus 2-3 page written summary, not including title and reference pages.

Upload your document, and then click the Submit to Dropbox button.