Each section of the two part visual essay should/be:
• Include a title slide introducing each section.
• No less than 10 minutes but should not exceed 20 minutes per section. Making the final
product a 20–40 minute visual essay covering all two components.
• Should minimally have two references per section of the two–part assignment concluding
with a minimum of 4 references – exceeding four references is perfectly fine. Students
can have a reference slide at the end of the visual essay reflecting all references.
• Include a title slide introducing each section.
• No less than 10 minutes but should not exceed 20 minutes per section. Making the final
product a 20–40 minute visual essay covering all two components.
• Should minimally have two references per section of the two–part assignment concluding
with a minimum of 4 references – exceeding four references is perfectly fine. Students
can have a reference slide at the end of the visual essay reflecting all references.
Students can build a PowerPoint with voiceover.
Part I: Social Identity Inventory: An Examination of Self and The Impact on Your Social
Work Practice
Provide an analysis of your social identities and how you feel they may impact your social work
practice (micro, macro, mezzo). Your analysis should include the following:
• Identify your social identities related to the course topics: race (biracial) , class (middle), nationality (American), religion,
ability, age (early 30s), and gender (male). Please note to identify your sexual orientation and gender
identity and expression at your discretion. Indicate whether each identity is a dominant
or oppressed social identity group. This classification (social location) should be based
on the course content and not your personal feelings or beliefs. Arrange each social
identity and location in a table, smartart, or infographic.
• Identify and define your personal values.
• Identify and analyze your biased (e.g., prejudicial, stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors
towards minoritized and dominant groups.
o Reflect on and analyze 4 different groups: 2 different minoritized/oppressed and
2 different dominant/privileged groups. Identify and assess one biased attitude
and one biased behavior you possess for each group.
o Apply the Cycle of Socialization model to Identify the origin of these attitudes and
behaviors, and make sure to make a connection between your social identities
and their role in these attitudes and behaviors.
o Are your biased attitudes and behaviors connected to your personal beliefs?
• Identify how your identity, values, and biased attitudes and behaviors impact your social
work practice from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
• Identify your social identities related to the course topics: race (biracial) , class (middle), nationality (American), religion,
ability, age (early 30s), and gender (male). Please note to identify your sexual orientation and gender
identity and expression at your discretion. Indicate whether each identity is a dominant
or oppressed social identity group. This classification (social location) should be based
on the course content and not your personal feelings or beliefs. Arrange each social
identity and location in a table, smartart, or infographic.
• Identify and define your personal values.
• Identify and analyze your biased (e.g., prejudicial, stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors
towards minoritized and dominant groups.
o Reflect on and analyze 4 different groups: 2 different minoritized/oppressed and
2 different dominant/privileged groups. Identify and assess one biased attitude
and one biased behavior you possess for each group.
o Apply the Cycle of Socialization model to Identify the origin of these attitudes and
behaviors, and make sure to make a connection between your social identities
and their role in these attitudes and behaviors.
o Are your biased attitudes and behaviors connected to your personal beliefs?
• Identify how your identity, values, and biased attitudes and behaviors impact your social
work practice from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
o Connect them to the values you identified and the biased attitudes and behaviors
you assessed.
• Using the NASW Code of Ethics, identify how not addressing your biased (e.g., prejudicial
and stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors towards minoritized/oppressed and
dominant/privileged may impact your social work practice.
Part II: Social Justice Practice: Liberation and Advocacy (50 points)
Building on Part I, examine how this course impacted your biased attitudes and behaviors
towards minoritized and dominant groups, how you plan to manage them, and how you will
integrate advocacy into your social work practice (micro, macro, mezzo).
Your analysis should include the following:
• Using the attitudes and behaviors towards minoritized and dominant groups that you
assessed in Part I, identify and assess if they are shifting or staying the same as a result of
this course.
o Assess for the 1 attitude and 1 behavior for each of the 2 minoritized/oppressed and
the 2 dominant/privileged groups.
o Apply the Cycle of Liberation model to help you identify and assess where you are
in your process of movement in your attitudes and behaviors.
• Detail your immediate plan to counteract biased (e.g., prejudicial and stereotypical)
attitudes and behaviors towards the 2 minoritized/oppressed and 2 dominant/privileged
groups.
o Provide concrete and evidence–based strategies.
• Define advocacy from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
• Identify how you will integrate advocacy into your social work practice for the 2
minoritized/oppressed groups from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
• Describe your approach for continuous personal and professional growth in recognizing
and addressing your biased (e.g., prejudicial and stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors.
o Provide concrete and evidence–based strategies.
you assessed.
• Using the NASW Code of Ethics, identify how not addressing your biased (e.g., prejudicial
and stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors towards minoritized/oppressed and
dominant/privileged may impact your social work practice.
Part II: Social Justice Practice: Liberation and Advocacy (50 points)
Building on Part I, examine how this course impacted your biased attitudes and behaviors
towards minoritized and dominant groups, how you plan to manage them, and how you will
integrate advocacy into your social work practice (micro, macro, mezzo).
Your analysis should include the following:
• Using the attitudes and behaviors towards minoritized and dominant groups that you
assessed in Part I, identify and assess if they are shifting or staying the same as a result of
this course.
o Assess for the 1 attitude and 1 behavior for each of the 2 minoritized/oppressed and
the 2 dominant/privileged groups.
o Apply the Cycle of Liberation model to help you identify and assess where you are
in your process of movement in your attitudes and behaviors.
• Detail your immediate plan to counteract biased (e.g., prejudicial and stereotypical)
attitudes and behaviors towards the 2 minoritized/oppressed and 2 dominant/privileged
groups.
o Provide concrete and evidence–based strategies.
• Define advocacy from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
• Identify how you will integrate advocacy into your social work practice for the 2
minoritized/oppressed groups from a micro, mezzo, and macro perspective.
• Describe your approach for continuous personal and professional growth in recognizing
and addressing your biased (e.g., prejudicial and stereotypical) attitudes and behaviors.
o Provide concrete and evidence–based strategies.