SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM - CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY WISCONSIN

CUW, Social Work Program Mission Statement

The primary mission of the CUW social work program is to prepare graduates for baccalaureate level, generalist, social work practice, within the context of faith, service, and social justice.

The social work program at Concordia University Wisconsin is designed to utilize the strengths of the liberal arts perspective with emphasis on an interdisciplinary curriculum.

The social work curriculum is designed to provide the conceptual skills, a broad knowledge base, and the practical, applied skills necessary to improve and enhance interpersonal relations. The liberal arts provide the generalist social work student with a variety of contexts within which they gain multiple perspectives to be able to identify, understand, and respond to human problems within multiple social contexts. The CUW baccalaureate social work program will employ the resources of all appropriate academic units in the education of social work majors.

The liberal arts perspective includes language, literature, religion, history, philosophy, art, and science - those aspects of our life that pertain to our culture and our society, as well as the cultures and societies of which we are not a part.

The professional social work foundation includes content on social work values and ethics, diversity, social and economic justice, populations-at-risk; human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and services, social work practice, research, and field practicum. These content areas are fully integrated into the sum total of the social work student?s academic experience.