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Program Objectives: The objectives specifically developed for the MSW
program relate to the goals of educating advanced social work practitioners
competent for specialized practice and knowledgeable in empirically supported
methods of prevention and intervention. These goals translate into the
following objectives for the MSW program:
- a. Each
student will understand the issues of prejudice, discrimination, and
oppression, and apply strategies and skills to the advancement of social
change and economic justice, as well as client system empowerment, through
specialized practice and scholarly pursuits at the MSW level.
- Each
student will understand and apply professional values and ethics, generally
and as applied to selected areas of specialization and scholarly pursuits,
at the MSW level.
- Each
student will understand and be able to interpret the history of the
profession and the impact of this history on its current structure and
issues, generally and as applied to selected areas of specialization
and scholarly pursuits, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will understand human diversity and the principles of multiculturalism
and how culture affects individual, family, group, organizational, and
community behavior and degrees of empowerment, as well as diversity
effects on general and specialized practice and scholarly pursuits,
at the MSW level.
- Each
student will use communication skills and interpersonal skills differentially
with a variety of client populations, colleagues, and members of the
community in general and in specialized practice, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will appropriately use supervision and consultation in general
and specialized practice and scholarly pursuits, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will develop critical thinking skills and use them to synthesize
and apply appropriate theories and knowledge to practice interaction,
generally and as applied to selected areas of specialization and scholarly
pursuits, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will be able to demonstrate the ability to evaluate practice
and the ability to evaluate programs in general and specialized areas
of MSW-level practice.
- Each
student will understand the influence of bio-psycho-social variables
on human development and behavior. Further, each student will understand
the application of theoretical frameworks to interactions and the degree
of empowerment that exists among and between individuals and social
systems (families, groups, organizations, and communities), both generally
and as applied to selected areas of specialization and scholarly pursuits,
at the MSW level.
- Each
student will understand quantitative/nomethetic and qualitative/ideographic
methods of research and will be a discerning consumer of the research
literature, generally and as applied to selected areas of specialization
and scholarly pursuits, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will understand policy formulation, implementation, and analysis
and their impact on client systems, workers, agencies/organizations,
and communities, as well as on client system empowerment, generally
and as applied to selected areas of specialization, at the MSW level.
- Each
student will demonstrate an understanding of factors related to risk
and resilience in vulnerable populations and will demonstrate an ability
to draw on the strengths perspective in implementing appropriate prevention
and empowerment strategies, generally and in selected areas of specialization
at the MSW level.
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