Program Mission
The mission of the social work program at Elms
College is to educate our students to become competent
and effective entry level social work practitioners.
We offer a curriculum of liberal arts and professional
social work foundations that uphold the traditions, values,
and ethics of the social work profession.
Our students learn to work within the social work profession
for social and economic justice, human understanding
and respect, the values of a multicultural society, and
a more humane and responsive world opposed to bigotry
and oppression.
The program serves as a resource for the
college, human service agencies, individual practitioners,
and the surrounding communities. It exists, as does Elms
College, to promote the personal, spiritual, and intellectual
development of our students and the general well-being
of society.
Program Goals
- To develop in students an appreciation
of the beauty, integrity, and potential of all human
beings; and the capacity to contemplate the student's
own personal, spiritual and intellectual beings and
to utilize that knowledge to gain an understanding
of their place in the world.
- To make available to students a
comprehensive educational experience that will allow
them opportunities to achieve potential as persons,
citizens of the world, and social workers.
- To develop a curriculum that builds
on a liberal arts perspective to promote breadth of
knowledge, pursuit of truth, critical thinking, communication
skills and technological capability.
- To prepare students for entry level
generalist social work practice with individuals, families,
groups and communities through a curriculum of liberal
arts and professional social work foundations, while
upholding the values and ethics of the profession.
- To prepare students or promote human
well-being by strengthening opportunities, resources
and capacities of people in their environments.
- To provide content on population-at-risk
and to present content on the dynamics of such risk
factors and effective strategies to redress them.
- To provide a learning context throughout
the curriculum and the program that energetically models
respect and understanding for persons of diverse backgrounds.
- To prepare students to work for
humane, just, multicultural society and world community.
Major Requirements
Bachelor of Science Degree
Major in Social Work
(Min. at Elms College: 24 cr. / Min. G.P.A.: 2.5)
Major Requirements- 66 credits
- PSY 201 General Psychology
- SOC 101 Introduction To Sociology
- BIO 105 Biology: Human Applications
- SWK 101 Introduction To Social
Work
- HIS 105 Early American History
- PSY 202 Statistics for the Behavioral
Sciences
- ECN 211 Economics
- SWK 204 Human Behavior/Social Environment I
- SWK 205 Human Behavior/Social Environment II
- SWK 301 Social Welfare
Policies & Services
- SWK 302 Social Work Practice with Individuals
and Families
- SWK 303 Mental Health/Mental Illness
- SWK 305 Social Research
- SWK 307 Social Group Work
- SWK 315 Social Work Practice with Communities
- SWK 401 Field Work Experience
- SWK 402 Advanced Social Work Practice with
Individuals, Families, and Communities
- SWK 404 Social Work Issues
- SOC 316 Racial and Ethnic Groups
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