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Dec 04, 2024
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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]
GCSW Objectives: Graduate College of Social Work
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Program Objectives
The broad objective of the M.S.W. program is to prepare students for responsible, professional social work practice. The program is expected to:
- Provide a sound base of knowledge and skills for professional practice.
- Socialize students to the social work profession, including its Code of Ethics and values.
- Convey an understanding of the impact of racism, sexism, ageism, heterosexism, ethnocentrism, and classism on individuals, groups, social policies, and institutions.
- Contribute to the social work profession through knowledge-building and research activities aimed toward improving social work practice, policies, and programs.
Student Objectives
During the course of their M.S.W. graduate education, students are expected to:
- Develop a broad perception of their roles and functions as social work professionals, including an understanding of, commitment to, and involvement in resolution of social problems through institutional changes and preventive measures.
- Acquire theoretical and applied knowledge of systems (individual, group, family, organizational, community, and societal) for use in carrying out professional roles and functions.
- Develop skills that reflect competence for social work practice in a multiethnic society.
- Attain knowledge of scientific inquiry and research methods as used to advance professional knowledge and practice.
- Develop mature and sensitive attitudes toward self and others that result in becoming disciplined social work practitioners.
- Identify with the profession of social work, its historical tradition, its values and ethics, and its commitment to social justice.
- Accept responsibility for continued learning relative to new knowledge and skills throughout one’s career.
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