Goals of the Department of Social Work
- To enable students to integrate the knowledge, values, and skills of the social work profession into competent practice.
- To prepare students for generalist social work practice at the professional entry level and graduate education in social work.
- Provide a professional foundation curriculum that contains the common body of the profession’s knowledge, values, and skills. This base is transferable among settings, population groups and problem areas.
- Include a liberal arts perspective and the professional foundation content, which prepares students for direct services with client systems of various sizes and types.
- Prepare graduates to practice with diverse populations.
- Provide content about the social contexts of social work practice, the changing nature of those contexts, the behavior of organization, and the dynamics of change.
- Infuse throughout the curriculum the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.
- Prepare graduates who are aware of their responsibility to continue their professional growth and development.
- Contribute knowledge and support to the professional community who serves populations at risk who suffer from oppression due to social and economic injustice.
- To offer students an appreciation for the special concerns affecting the rural population.
