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Program Objectives
The program objectives create a guide to shape and focus curriculum
content -
values, knowledge and skills - that Social Work students should
demonstrate upon completion of the Social Work major.
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Identify and assess interactions of people within their
social environment using the human diversity framework
(bio-psycho-social-cultural-aesthetic-spiritual-gender
dimensions) with special attention to current social issues.
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Employ a planned change approach reflecting assessment,
goals, strategies, and evaluation leading to effective
intervention on individual, environmental and systemic
levels.
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Empower service users by employing a strengths perspective
that enhances decision-making, problem solving, coping,
and networking capacities through the development and
utilization of resources, services, and opportunities.
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Employ a generalist practice that utilizes responsiveness
and competency in working with diverse, oppressed, and
disenfranchised persons.
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Promote commitment to social justice in addressing issues
of poverty, oppression, and discrimination and to the
creation of responsive and effective service delivery.
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Utilize various research methods to analyze social issues,
evaluate practice, and develop responsive systemic and
environmental change.
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Engage in professional self-assessment and actively
use consultation and supervision in the pursuit of enhanced
practice and professional growth.
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Employ intra-organizational and inter-oganizational
approaches to empowering people, developing policy initiatives,
and creating social justice.
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Engage in tools related to cultural sensitivity, responsiveness,
and competence for ongoing self-assessment.
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Promote understanding and utilization in professional
practice of social work values and ethics.
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Promote understanding of the global relatedness of issues
facing various human systems, the roots of these issues,
and the diverse interventions developed to address resolution
of these issues.
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