Social Work - Livingstone College

Social Work from Livingstone College is a Campus Bachelor Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, the Social Work program offers the Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W.) Degree , a Professional Degree. Graduates of Livingstone College's Social Work program are prepared for entrylevel professional employment in public and private agencies such as child welfare agencies, family service agencies, mental health centers, public assistance agencies/schools/ hospitals, and service agencies for the elderly and handicapped. Careers may also involve work with the developmentally disabled, homeless shelters, and housing programs. The goals for students' learning and program impact are designed to enable graduates of the program to articulate a practice paradigm that emerges from a commitment to human rights, social and economic justice, and individual and collective empowerment. The following goals are rendered from this guiding programmatic commitment: 1. To provide a curriculum that prepares graduates for competent beginning professional generalist social work practice with diverse client systems guided by the values and ethics of the social work profession; 2. To provide a curriculum that prepares graduates to engage in prevention activities that promote well-being and healthy social functioning; 3. To provide a curriculum that prepares graduates to practice with diverse individuals, groups, organizations and communities; 4. To provide a curriculum that prepares graduates to alleviate poverty, oppression, and other forms of injustice; and 5. To provide a curriculum that prepares graduates to identify, assess, and develop strategies that change conditions that impede, infringe, and deny people the right to social and economic justice. Preparation as a generalist social work practitioner presupposes that basic cognitive learning and an underlying value ethic will make a distinction between the social work student, and the liberal arts graduate. Building on a liberal arts general education base, the Livingstone College Social Work Program sees the B.S.W. graduate as one who can perform as a beginning social work practitioner and serve the wider community, yet maintain awareness for lifelong learning, continuing education, or specialist study. View more details on Livingstone College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.