Through this portion of the portfolio assignment, students will demonstrate comp

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Through this portion of the portfolio assignment, students will demonstrate comp

Through this portion of the portfolio assignment, students will demonstrate competence with the specialist year Competency 3 measures listed below.
Learning Objectives:
Students identify systemic oppression in direct social work practice and theory and in the lives and experiences of clients. 
Students acknowledge and understand their experiences of privilege and oppression and how these impact their understanding of client issues.  
Students explore the ways in which clients’ diverse environments influence identity formation. 
Students recognize the power and privilege they have as a professional social worker and how it impacts their work with clients, colleagues, and systems. 
Systemic Oppression Paper (5-7 pages).
Students deepen their understanding of the human rights, social, economic, or environmental justice issues which they described and depicted with an artifact above in a brief paper with a macro focus on oppression and human rights violations. 
How does the identified human rights and/or social, economic, and environmental justice issue affect larger populations? Provide description of population (geographic location, culture, historic struggle, etc) with supporting evidence. 
How did the interviewee identify with this larger population? 
Identify and define a theory of human need & desire which applies to this population.  
Identify and discuss any systemic or structural barriers faced by the identified population. How does (or might) the interviewee experience this barrier? Is there a historical context to this barrier?  What efforts have been made to eliminate this barrier in the past? 
Data sources will be needed to support the connections made in this part of the project.

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