Program Goals

The program is successful when its graduates:

• Effectively assume leadership roles in culturally diverse environments, interdisciplinary contexts, and in the profession, in order to impact systems and practice and promote social justice;
• Demonstrate ability to construct or use extant theory, apply multiple research models and paradigms, and interpret data and findings to the ends of guiding practice, services, advocacy, and systems change;
• Advance the knowledge base of Social Work for practice, administration of direct service programs, and social work education;
• Represent and speak for the social work profession and its ethics and values;
• Demonstrate command of a substantive area based on a chosen population, social problem, or field of practice.