Center for Adult and Continuing Studies

Course Description

This course meets the Michigan LARA Licensure requirement for Implicit Bias, and counts for 4.0 Social Work Continuing Education Credits (CEs) or 4.0 State Continuing Education Clock Hours (SCECHs for Educators).

This asynchronous course invites participants to engage in a personal exploration of implicit bias. The asynchronous online training analyzes implicit bias in a five-segment series that defines explicit and implicit bias. The training examines how implicit bias affects social development and human interactions through an analysis of the systemic and ideological mechanisms, including health care systems, that perpetuate bias. The training concludes with practices and strategies that seek to dismantle the effects of implicit bias through recognition, reflection, and reflexivity.

Course Level: Beginner

Objectives:

1. Understand origins of systemic oppression.
2. Analyze mechanisms that construct and perpetuate ideological habits of implicit bias.
3. Evaluate and apply strategies to dismantle implicit bias and systems of oppression.
4. Understand the importance of continual self-reflection to maintain a growth mindset.