Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Stories

Matt Mundy M.S.S. '22
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

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

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.

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.

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.

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