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The Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø Social Work Program’s mission is to prepare undergraduate social work majors for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by providing a broad-based, professional education that rests on a solid liberal arts foundation. The Program also seeks to serve the larger college community through Social Work and General Studies course offerings that have universal appeal to those seeking a better understanding of the human condition. The Program’s central focus is on producing graduates who have a lifetime commitment to upholding human rights, respecting human diversity, and working towards social and economic justice in their professional and personal lives.

1. To prepare graduates to practice with diverse populations, particularly those who have been placed at risk by patterns and histories of social injustice.

Core Competencies

1. Engage diversity and difference in practice
2. Advance human rights and social and economic justice
3. Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

2. To provide comprehensive content about generalist social work practice.

Core Competencies

1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly
2. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice
3. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments
4. Engage diversity and difference in practice
5. Advance human rights and social and economic justice
6. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research
7. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
8. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
9. Respond to contexts that shape practice
10. Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
11. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment

3. Provide content about the social contexts of social work practice.

Core Competencies

1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
2. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
3. Respond to contexts that shape practice

4. Infuse throughout the curriculum the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.

Core Competencies

1. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice

5. Prepare graduates to be conscientious lifelong learners.

Core Competencies

1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly

6. Prepare graduates who demonstrate the ability to think critically, write effectively, communicate effectively orally, use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry, and be comfortable with the use of computers.

Core Competencies

1. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments
2. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research

7. Faculty of the Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø Social Work Program will provide service to the broader college community, to the surrounding southern New Jersey region, and in wider statewide, national, and international arenas. In this way, we deepen the Social Work Program’s capacity to bring professional values and ethics to the broadest possible population, representing to students what it means to be engaged professional social workers; and we demonstrate our commitment to ensure that Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø College graduates are prepared to be citizens in a democratic, multi-cultural society.

The Social Work Program is open to Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø students in good standing who have successfully completed the introductory sequence of social work courses and who have discussed their intent to major in social work with a social work program preceptor. Students are encouraged to consult social work faculty members as a means of determining their interests in social work and assessing what the program and the profession may offer to those who participate. The earlier this is done the better.

Transfer students must contact a faculty member immediately upon arrival at the college and before registration, so that previous academic work can be evaluated and an individualized course of study can be established.

Community college transfer students who do not come from a human services/social work program may have to complete more than 64 credits at Â鶹´«Ã½ÉçÇø to satisfy the requirements for the degree in social work. This may require an additional one or two terms of academic work.