Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
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The Graduate School of Social Work is one of the professional schools of Boston College.
The mission of the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work is twofold:
• To prepare social work professionals with the knowledge, values, and skills needed to initiate and sustain change and provide visionary leadership within a framework that promotes individual dignity, respects diversity, and seeks distributive justice in the Jesuit tradition and
• To cultivate an atmosphere of intellectual discipline that facilitates faculty and student scholarship and research that contributes to the knowledge base of the profession and improves society’s understanding of the systems in which people, organizations, and communities thrive.
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Knowledge: To provide students with solid groundwork in the generic knowledge base of the social work profession applicable to understanding and intervening with client systems of various sizes and types. The generic knowledge base serves as a foundation for the acquisition of advanced knowledge of the functional dynamics of micro or macro systems germane to the student’s choice of a specific method of social work practice.
Skills: To prepare social work professionals for social intervention and action through the development of advanced analysis, practice, and evaluation skills utilized in problem resolution of challenges facing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and/ or communities.
Values: To develop an awareness of, and commitment to, the basic values of the social work profession including the imperatives of service, social and economic justice, individual dignity and respect, the importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence as reflected in the NASW Code of Ethics.
Research: To cultivate social work professionals capable of critically assessing the validity, reliability, and ethics of research in their capacity as consumers of research findings for relevance to their own practice and to train social work professionals to implement evaluative measures as part of the professional intervention process. BCGSSW also seeks to create an atmosphere of scholarly inquiry supporting the research efforts of students and faculty to make meaningful contributions to the knowledge base of the profession including both the academic and practice communities.
Social Action: To foster students’ understanding of the significance of discrimination and oppression on diverse populations and commitment to promoting change in the social and institutional forces that maintain inequitable treatment of vulnerable populations.
Leadership: To provide opportunities for students and faculty to develop leadership roles in the social work profession through participation in school, university, and community organizations and through responding to local, national, and international socio-political issues.
Resources to the university and the community: To serve as a resource to the university, regional, national, and international community by promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between the school and other professional programs at Boston College, offering a variety of lifelong learning opportunities to the professional community, and rendering academic and consultation services to the community.
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