Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Stories

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Matt Mundy M.S.S. '22

GSSWSR CAREER CHANGER

鈥淢y guiding light was wanting to help people, and as hard as things can get in graduate school, I just focused on my 鈥榳hy鈥: wanting to help others.鈥

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Ivy Elwell M.S.S. '23 Goes from Stage to Service

GSSWSR Career Changer

鈥淲hereas other programs I was considering made me feel like I had to fit into their mold, Bryn Mawr welcomed my background, and what I could bring to their program and the field.鈥

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360掳: Struggles for Global Health Equity

This 360掳 aims to help students begin to understand both significant problems of and promising approaches to the practice鈥揳nd study鈥搊f community health promotion.

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360掳: To Protect the Health of the Public

This 360掳 has as its goal a deepened understanding of public health. To do so, we offer three courses that focus on policy, history, culture, the place and power of government, and public and personal responsibility.

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360掳: Trauma and Resilience through Comics

This 360掳 pulls together theoretical perspectives on comics, narration, trauma, and recovery to explore critical dimensions of the global experience of trauma, with a focus on interdisciplinary understandings of suffering and survival.

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360掳: Identity Matters

This cluster of courses, which have been co-designed by professors with shared interests in disability studies, gender studies, human development, literature, social work, visual studies and writing, will consider how multiple systems of identity, as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson says, 鈥渋ntertwine, redefine, and mutually constitute one another.鈥

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