Doctor's degree Social Work - Barry University

Doctor's degree Social Work from Barry University is a Campus Ph.D Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Program Overview Preparation for scholarly, professional, and leadership roles. A history of quality and collegiality Program designed for social workers seeking to produce practice-relevant scholarship Established in 1966, the School provides the highest quality training for social work practice and scholarship, in one of the richest and most diverse environments in the nation. Partially urban, partially rural, multi-lingual, multi-cultural, South Florida poses all the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Our goal is to give you the opportunity to advance and deepen your knowledge of your profession and its values, theory-base, and research foundation, and to equip you to make a difference in people's lives through practice-relevant scholarship and professional education. Our Approach to Learning in the Doctoral Program Barry's Ph.D. in Social Work Program provides the opportunity to develop skills for the generation and dissemination of knowledge for the profession in the dynamic, multicultural communities unique to South Florida. Students are encouraged to identify their research interests early in the program and to pursue them throughout the curriculum, with strong multi-discipline faculty and advisor support. Hands-on research and teaching experiences are built in to the curriculum, in addition to classroom learning. Students have additional opportunities to teach and advise in the School's BSW and MSW programs. Doctoral faculty members represent multiple disciplines: Social Work , Sociology, Psychology, Nursing, and others. The program appreciates the potential of online learning and many courses have elements online; however, in this program, classes continue to meet in traditional in-person contexts for the most part. The Ph.D. in Social Work program prepares experienced social workers to further the knowledge base of the profession through scholarship, to educate professional social workers, and to assume leadership roles within the profession. Graduates of the program are expected to advance social work theory and research, social work education, social work practice, and the effectiveness of social work services and interventions, with an emphasis on cultural relevance and cultural diversity. Social work practitioners who earn the Ph.D. at Barry are typically seasoned professionals who are ready to move into research and teaching. For some this means a total shift from practice into academe: these individuals join faculties in schools or departments of social work, where research, publication, and teaching will be their primary focus. Others continue in leadership roles in agency-based or self-employed social work practice, while teaching part-time in a school or department of social work and/or collaborating on research with academic colleagues. The program enthusiastically supports both of these career paths, as both venues contribute to the generation and dissemination of the social work knowledge base. However their career paths unfold, graduates are prepared to contribute to the advancement of social work theory and research, of social work education and training, and of social work practice. In support of the preparation of advanced practitioners for leadership and social work knowledge building, the program: * Admits experienced practitioners * Defines scholarship broadly to include original empirical research, theoretical advancement, and the synthesis of secondary literature * Emphasizes the importance of multi-modal research inclusive of qualitative and quantitative methods * Affords an interdisciplinary context * Provides didactic and experiential learning in applied and basic research * Provides didactic and experiential learning in teaching and curriculum development View more details on Barry University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.