THE BSW Program
PROGRAM DISCONTINUANCE
Effective November 2007, the BSW Program has been discontinued. To read the Dean's Letter, click here.
THE DISCIPLINE
The School of Social Work offers a curriculum that includes both core courses in social work and supportive courses in sociology, psychology, English, and biology. this couse work prepares the graduate for professional licensure and for immediate employment in numerous human services and social service agencies.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Social Workers coming out of the bachelor's program are prepared to enter the professional workplace immediately upon graduation in a variety of human service settings, including public and private agencies, hospitals, clinics, schools, nursing homes, police departments, juvenile and adult correctional systems, and a wide range of other interesting arenas. Their clientele may include children, teenagers, seniors, men, women, and families who deal with issues such as mental illness, developmental disabilities, delinquency or criminality, homelessness, substance addiction, or other personal or social issues. The social work profession is particularly committed to helping those members of society who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. Because the social work discipline focuses on the person in his or her environment, the variety of human problems encountered by social workers is very diverse.
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Program graduates will demonstrate the following attributes:
1. adherence to the basic and historic values of the profession of social work and the ethical standards contained in the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers;
2. an understanding of individual development within the biopsychosocial perspective;
3. the knowledge and skills necessary for beginning professional generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities;
4. an understanding of social welfare from a policy and program perspective essential for beginning agency social work practice;
5. the beginning skills necessary for scientific evaluation of their social work agency practice and critical appraisal of the findings of social work research; and
6. the knowledge and skills necessary for in-agency practice brokerage and advocacy on behalf of client systems of all sizes needed to serve diverse, vulnerable and often oppressed populations throughout the world.
