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Course Descriptions:
SASS 375/575 Bangladesh: Social Development & Microfinance
Travel Dates: Dec. 29, 2011 - Jan 13, 2012
Register for Fall
Approved for Global and Cultural Diversity Credit
Dr Deborah Jacobson,
dxj@case.edu
The 3 hour course is for Undergrad and Grad students,
faculty, alumni, and professionals and is taught by the Southern Illinois School of Social Work,
 Carbondale (SIUC)
http://www.siu.edu/~socwork/bangladesh/, and
Case Western Reserve’s Mandel School of Applied Social Science (MSASS) in collaboration with the
Independent University of Bangladesh. Students will spend approximately 6 days in Dhaka, the
Bangladesh capital, and 6 days in the villages visiting field projects. There will be 2 days in
Beach resort city Cox Bazar The program will explore the basic ideas behind microcredit revolution
in Bangladesh, its historical precedence, and will study it’s relation to health; finance;
management; politics; social entrepreneurship; and development. The course will focus on the role
of microfinance to alleviate poverty, empower women and facilitate social development, and nurture
social entrepreneurship in a developing country. There will be a chance to meet the 2006 Nobel
Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, as well as other official;, NGOs; and village women borrowers
in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, in its short history, has been a key site for implementing and testing
various models of development by international agencies, governmental organizations, and NGOs.
Students in this program will be exposed to the ideologies, policies, and practices of
socioeconomic development in rural and urban Bangladesh through lectures, discussions,
demonstrations, and group field study (with Bangladeshi collaborators).
SASS 375/575 Ecuador : Health, Human and Social Development
Travel Dates: Jan 2-15, 2012
Register for Fall
Approved for Global and Cultural Diversity Credit
Dr. Mark Chupp
mark.chupp@case.edu and Dr.Sonia Minnes
sonia.minnes@case.edu
 The 3
hour course for Undergrad and Grad students, faculty, alumni, and professionals takes an integrated
approach to the study of the multicultural issues related to policies and services in urban Quito,
Ecuador and the surrounding rural areas. Site visits and studies of HIV/Aids, public and private
hospitals, education, child welfare, disaster interventions, Trafficking in Human Persons and USAID
policy, analysis of native Quichua families, an examination of traditional and modern medicine and
the local religious influences, time with an Afro Ecuadorian Community of Chota, and a firsthand
view of a progressive labor policy at a flower farm in the Andes Mountains. You will have
opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback riding, and exploring rural villages and time to
experience Ecuadorian music, dance, and cooking. The hot springs at Baños near RioBamba, the
Otavalo Market, the San Antonio de Ibarra Woodcarving, the Museo de la Ciudad San Francisco, the
Museo Guayasamin, and other places of cultural interest are on the itinerary.
SASS 325/350 & 575 Netherlands:
Amsterdam
Travel Dates : March 9-18, 2012
3 sections:
1) Social Justice: Health & Violence Prevention
Undergrads Dean Gilmore:
gcg@case.edu
2) Social Justice: Health & Violence Prevention
Graduates Dr. Mark Singer Mark Singer
mxs12@case.edu
and Ms. Sarah Parran
sparran@aol.com
3) Integrated Mental Health & Substance Use (Open to all students) Dr. Patrick Boyle:
Patrick.boyle@case.edu
These 3 hour courses during Spring Break in the Netherlands are for Undergraduate and
Graduate students and take place in Amsterdam and surrounding areas. This experience is designed to
familiarize students and faculty with Dutch culture, social policies and practices for
homelessness; prostitution; drug use; substance abuse; mental health; neighborhood social control;
and multicultural aspects of healthcare, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. The trip
includes guided tours of neighborhoods and social institutions and daily lectures by government
officials, practicing social workers, and many of Holland's most prominent scholars. The experience
will challenge students to compare Holland with the United States and help students understand the
strengths and weaknesses of social policies and human services in both countries.
SASS 375/575 Guatemala: Community Development Approach to Child Welfare
Travel Dates : March 9-18, 2012
Approved for Global and Cultural Diversity Credit
Dr. Zoe Breen Wood:
zbw@case.edu Dr. Victor Groza:
vkg2@case.edu
This 3 credit hour graduate and undergraduate course is designed to familiarize
participants with the culture and history of Guatemala, as well as study child welfare from a
community development perspective. All students will spend some time each morning to learn Spanish,
followed by guided tours of programs. The experience will challenge participants to compare
Guatemala with the United States at social, economic, and political levels. The program is an
intense, small group experience in living, learning, traveling and studying. Students
will study child welfare issues; social services; and indigenous community practices, and
understand the strengths and weaknesses of social policies and human services in both Guatemala and
the US. The course acquaints participants with the socio-political factors that influence the
development of child welfare programs in the nongovernmental sector (private, nonprofit) and
governmental sector in Guatemala. The role of the helping professions in child welfare are explored
via agency visits, lectures, and collaboration with Guatemalan professional.
SASS 375/575 Poland: Invisible Groups in a New Poland
Travel Dates : March 9-18, 2012
Approved for Global and Cultural Diversity Credit
Dr. Kathleen Farkas:
kathleen.farkas@case.edu Mr. Richard Romaniuk:
jrr03@juno.com
This 3 hour Spring Break course for undergraduate and graduate students introduces
students and faculty to Polish culture and Polish social policies and practices concerning
disenfranchised, stigmatized, and disempowered
social groups. The course will encourage students to understand how Poland’s recent political and
economic transformations affect society, in general, and some groups, in particular.
The course will focus on how Polish society addresses
problems of poverty, homelessness, aging, domestic violence and mental health disorders. In
cooperation with the Institute of Sociology at the University of Poznan, students and faculty will
use frameworks such as multiculturalism, social integration, feminism, and determinants of social
exclusion to understand Polish policy responses to various social phenomena. Students will have
opportunities to engage government officials, practicing social workers, and some of Poland's most
prominent scholars in conversation. In addition to lectures and workshops, the trip includes guided
tours of neighborhoods and social institutions.
Cultural events and outings will provide additional
insights in to Polish society and the Polish people.
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