Social Work Program
"Social Work. Help Starts Here"

Mission Statement

The mission of our baccalaureate social work program is to prepare and graduate competent and principled social work majors at the generalist practice, entry level of the profession for service, advocacy, and leadership and to prepare students for successful graduate education.

Grounded in a general liberal arts background, we intend to equip students with a solid and integrated education with a foundation in social work theories, knowledge, ethics, values, skills, and to provide students with a supervised, direct field practice experience. We expect our graduates to work within a wide variety of social work and social welfare agencies and settings and with systems at all levels.

As an integral part of one of the oldest historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) in the United States, we are particularly interested in developing competent baccalaureate social workers with skills for making contributions to address such areas as social and economic justice, societal barriers and disparities, and to improve the quality of life for all people with a focus on specialized, oppressed, and disadvantaged persons. Our social work program’s areas of emphasis include self, client, and community empowerment; personal, and societal responsibility; and understanding, recognition, and respect for persons of all orientations, cultures, racial, and ethnic groups. We expect our students to acquire skills to be effective client advocates and to advance social and economic justice particularly among traditionally recognized populations-at-risk, including recently identified populations such as Spanish speaking persons new to the United States. We also believe that all persons have the potential to change and improve their lives individually and to collectively contribute to societal improvements across a continuum, from local to global communities. To this end, we expect our students to exercise skills across a range of professional social work roles to bring about planned change.

"Strides To Excellence: Only The Best"

http://www.socialworker.com/home/

http://www.cswe.org/

http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/default.asp

http://www.naswnc.org/

http://www.naswdc.org/

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

http://www.census.gov/population/www/index.html

http://www.abacon.com/socwk/quiz/

http://www.socialworksearch.com/

http://www.nabsw.org

SOW Syllabi

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