Master of Social Work

Earn your Master of Social Work and explore human behavior in the social environment, social work generalist practice, social welfare policy, social work research, human diversity and social justice. With a direct clinical or community practice focus, you will develop specialized skills in social work practice and assessment, treatment planning, interventions and practice evaluation. You’ll be prepared for leadership roles in generalist and specialized practice.

In the Social Work program, you will:

• Commit to the values and ethics of social work, the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and champion the dignity and worth of every human being;
• Become a critical, anti-racist thinker, competent in integrated practice and fluent in the multi-leveled, ecological perspective, which includes a full range of salient theoretical practices, models and framework necessary for integrative understanding of people, their families and communities, and the social and political structures that affect them;
• Use empirically-based, cutting edge methods and approaches to enhance social work practice and policies in an ever-evolving, local-to-global social context;
• Develop skills necessary to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate practice in work with individuals, families, groups, communities, organizations, and government systems, and to collaborate in work ranging from micro-to-macro settings to respond to expressed human needs and shape associated policy;
• Promote social justice and diversity and affect meaningful and productive social change in communities by collaborating with marginalized populations;
• Hone your practice skills and learn to work in a specialized area through supervised field practicum.

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