What We Do in the Department of Social Work

The goals of the Social Work Program are to produce:

1. excellent practitioners prepared as liberal arts based baccalaureate level generalist social workers;
2. social science 170 scholars who are prepared for scientific inquiry, technologically competent and knowledgeable of diverse and special populations;
3. citizens of the community and Commonwealth who are informed about the world around them, and ready advocates for social and economic justice;
4. communicators who are capable of collaboration across disciplines, client populations, and communities;
5. professionals imbued with the social work strengths perspective and able to use self-as-instrument in practice that includes biological, psychological, sociological and spiritual views of person-situation-interaction;
6. leaders dedicated to service and prepared with an understanding of the value base of the social work profession and its ethical standards and principles.