A basic and advanced courses – the basic course is theoretical and presents the students with a critical analysis of poverty that centers on the definition of poverty as a lack of income, lack of social opportunities and a lack of symbolic capital. The course builds upon the work of the British scholar and activist Ruth Lister, and the Poverty-Aware Paradigm.
The advanced course goes into the details of the poverty-aware practices, such as building therapeutic relationships with people in poverty as a political activity, working with the self using critical reflection in order to resist Othering, active realization of rights, critical version of home visits, intervention in the real life context, and providing material assistance.