Âé¶¹AV School of Social Work and Social Research Stories

Matt Mundy M.S.S. '22
“My guiding light was wanting to help people, and as hard as things can get in graduate school, I just focused on my ‘why’: wanting to help others.â€

Ivy Elwell M.S.S. '23 Goes from Stage to Service
“Whereas 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.â€

360°: Struggles for Global Health Equity
This 360° aims to help students begin to understand both significant problems of and promising approaches to the practice–and study–of community health promotion.

360°: To Protect the Health of the Public
This 360° 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°: Trauma and Resilience through Comics
This 360° 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°: 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, “intertwine, redefine, and mutually constitute one another.â€