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Our social justice informed curriculum prepares you for community-based generalist social work practice through rigorous course work and hands-on learning.
Social work is adynamic, versatile, and rewarding profession. Our graduates report being well prepared for careers in social work and graduate school. Classroom experience is connected to real world practice through your field practicum. Students who seek a path to help others, improve society, and advocate for just social conditions thrive in social work and have many career options.
Our mission is to prepare undergraduate students to become competent and effective entry-level, generalist social work professionals who value and respect diversity, anchor economic and social justice and human rights as central to their practice, and seek to use their knowledge based on scientific inquiry and skills to improve and community human well-being.
Our program values are adopted from the eight core values of the social work profession delineated in the CSWE Educational Policy 1.0:
- Service.
- Social justice.
- The dignity and worth of the person.
- The importance of human relationships.
- Integrity.
- Competence.
- Human rights.
- Scientific inquiry.
For competent and effective entry-level generalist social work practice with varying client systems (i.e., individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities)
- To practice competently with diverse populations.
- To effectively promote and advocate for economic and social justice and human rights.
- To apply the values, ethics, and standards of the social work profession into generalist practice.
- For service and leadership to improve human and community well-being in evolving contexts.