Social Work (M.S.W.)

The mission of the MSW program is to prepare students for advanced social work practice that addresses complex human needs through interpersonal practice or knowledge and skills in community, policy, and leadership. The MSW program creates a collaborative and diverse partnership between faculty, staff, students, and the larger social work community to utilize evidence-informed practices to address and advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice, with a particular focus on urban communities. Informed by a person-in-environment framework, a global perspective, and respect for human diversity, the MSW program produces community-engaged, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive social work practitioners who are guided by core social work values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, human rights, and scientific inquiry.