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The Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree is recognized
as the entry level professional degree for generalist social work
practice in public and private social agencies. A BSW education
combines liberal arts with professional social work foundation
content to prepare graduates for direct services. To ensure professional
standards, BSW programs must meet rigorous academic standards
to gain and maintain accreditation from the Council on Social
Work Education (CSWE). For admission to a BSW program, the competition
is rigorous and students must meet formal admissions standards,
such as completing an application process and maintaining a minimum
grade point average. The coursework is begun in the final two
years of a four-year baccalaureate program. The curriculum prepares
a student for generalist practice and includes courses in human
behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and
services, populations-at-risk, research, social work practice,
field practicum, social work values and ethics, human diversity,
and social and economic justice. This curriculum consists of 54
hours of required social work courses. Students are required to
maintain a 2.5 overall GPA.
Mission Statement
The Northeastern State University (NSU) Social Work Program
offers an upper-division professional social work curriculum built
upon a liberal arts foundation which leads to a bachelor of social
work degree (BSW) accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
Its primary mission is to provide academic preparation and contribute
to the professional and intellectual growth and development of
individuals who desire to enter generalist social work practice
in a wide range of social agencies and allied settings with diverse
client systems of various sizes and types. The program is designed
to integrate and apply the National Association of Social Workers
(NASW) Code of Ethics and the knowledge, values, and skills of
the profession into competent generalist social work practice
with populations-at-risk. Northeastern Oklahoma is a predominately
rural area which possesses a high concentration of Native Americans
and economically disadvantaged individuals. Additionally, the
Social Work Program has chosen the
global context of social work practice as an unique focus.
The mission statement of NSU provides the foundation and structure
and is commensurate with the mission statement of the Bachelor
of Social Work program. Both statements are compatible with academic
excellence, as the ultimate mission being reflected in the preparation
of students for their professional endeavors as well as good citizenship
and personal conduct.
The Bachelor of Social Work Mission Statement also
reflects the mission of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
to create an educational environment that contributes to professional
and intellectual growth and development.
Mission
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Social Work Goals
To fulfill the above mission, the goals of the social
work program are:
- To prepare a diverse student population for beginning professional
generalists social work practice based on values and ethics
in order to serve client systems of various sizes and types.
This includes direct services to the diverse populations-at-risk
to facilitate the reduction of poverty, oppression and discrimination
that will promote social and economic justice.
- To provide a flexible educational program that increases the
students understanding of the bio-psycho-social variables that
affect the person within the environment and community which
will include the history of social welfare and the social work
profession, its structures and issues.
- To provide students the opportunity to acquire, develop and
integrate professional social work knowledge, values, and skills.
To guide their professional social work practice primarily through
course work and field practicum instruction.
- To provide professional education for practice which will
increase appreciation and understanding of working effectively
with diverse client systems of various sizes and types, with
emphases on Native American populations.
- To develop analytical skills and critical thinking that will
encourage active participation in the development, evaluation,
and improvement of social work knowledge and skills through
research aimed at advancing social work practice.
- To encourage students to become aware of the complex tasks
of involvement in practice, both direct and indirect, and the
global impact of social, spiritual, political, and economic
systems.
- To prepare graduates for generalist social work practice with
diverse populations and to foster their commitment to lifelong
learning and development of social work knowledge, values, and
skills with incorporation of effective supervision throughout
their careers, which will empower them and their clients.
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Social Work Objectives
- Apply critical thinking and research skills within the context
of professional social work
practice.
- Understand the value base of the profession and its ethical
standards and principles, and
practice accordingly.
- Practice without discrimination and with respect, knowledge,
and skills related to clients=
age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, family structure,
gender, marital status, national
origin, race, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
- Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination
and apply
strategies of advocacy and social change that advance social
and economic justice.
- Understand and interpret the history of the social work profession
and the social welfare
institution and their contemporary structures and issues.
- Apply the knowledge and skills of generalist social work
practice with systems of all sizes.
- Use theoretical frameworks supported by empirical evidence
to understand individual
development and behavior across the life span and the interaction
among individuals and
between individuals and families, groups, organizations, and
communities.
- Analyze, formulate, and influence social policies that promote
social and economic justice.
- Evaluate research studies, apply research findings to practice,
and evaluate their own
practice interventions.
- Use communication skills differentially across client populations
and communities and with
colleagues.
- Use supervision and consultation appropriate to social work
practice.
- Function within the structure of organizations and service
delivery systems and seek
necessary organizational change.
- Understand the need for cultural sensitivity in the provision
of services for Native American
populations.
- Recognize and implement the global context of the social
work profession.
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