The purpose of the Department of Social Work is to help students in the social work program learn professional values, master a broad range of knowledge about individuals, social systems, human skills related to analysis and problem solving, communication, research, and generalist practice. The program helps students to integrate theoretical material from the classroom with the practical supervised field experience of working directly with individuals, groups, and communities.
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The graduates of the Social Work Program will demonstrate:
1. An understanding of the mission, philosophy, values, and history of social work profession.
2. Knowledge and skills necessary to identify and analyze contexts where the relationships between people and social situations need to be initiated, improved, restored, protected or terminated.
3. Knowledge and skills necessary to understand human development and diversity throughout the life cycle as it relates to generalist social work practice.
4. Knowledge and skills necessary to engage in effective professional relationships that promotes the humane operation of systems that provide people with services, resources, and opportunities.
5. Knowledge and skills necessary to utilize the problem solving process to intervene effectively with diverse populations and multilevel systems in the delivery of generalist social work services.
6. Knowledge and skills necessary to assess the impact of social policies on clients, workers and agencies; to modify or eliminate policies that are unjust; and to participate in designing policies that improve the well-being of people, especially vulnerable and oppressed populations.
7. An understanding of, respect for, and utilization of the value of diversity.
8. Acquisition of social work values and ethics in social work practice by learning, supporting, and upholding the standards and ethics of the profession.
9. Knowledge and skills necessary to systematically evaluate one’s own practice and professional growth, to use research to improve practice, to contribute to the profession’s knowledge base, and to be a critical consumer of research.
10. Knowledge and skills needed to be employed as a beginning social work generalist practitioner in service systems of various types and sizes providing services to diverse populations.
11. Knowledge and skills needed to pursue graduated studies in social work.
12. Knowledge and skills to evaluate the nature and importance of supervision.
Ì The Social Work Program is accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE)