School of Social Work Mission Statement

School of Social Work Mission Statement

The mission of the School of Social Work is to contribute to the building of healthy communities that maximize human potential and promote social and economic justice through excellence and distinctiveness in teaching and learning, research and scholarship, service and outreach. The mission of the BSW Program is to prepare entry-level, generalist social workers to assume responsibility for a range of services that deal with the problems experienced by people in a multicultural society. The mission of the MSW Program is to prepare students in advanced social work practice for leadership roles in the effort to solve, in partnerships with others, the existing and developing challenges that confront communities in the United States and internationally.

Bachelors of Social Work Mission Statement

The mission of the BSW Program is to prepare entry-level, generalist social workers to assume responsibility for a range of services that deal with the problems experienced by people in a multicultural society.

Assessment Plan for the Bachelors of Social Work

BSW Learning Objectives
The objectives listed below are consistent with the Commission on Accreditation of the Council on Social Work Education’s learning objectives for educating students for entry-level generalist practice in social work.
1. Apply critical thinking skills within the context of professional social work practice.
2. Understand the value base of the profession and its ethical standards and principals, and practice accordingly.
3. Practice without discrimination and with respect, knowledge, and skills related to clients’ age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, family structure, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, and sexual orientation.
4. Understand the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination and apply strategies of advocacy and social change that advance social and economic justice.
5. Understand and interpret the history of the social work profession and its contemporary structures and issues.
6. Apply the knowledge and skills of a generalist social work practice with systems of all sizes.
7. Use theoretical frameworks supported by empirical evidence to understand individual development and behavior across the life span and the interactions among individuals and between individuals and families, groups, organizations and communities.
8. Analyze, formulate, and influence social policies.
9. Evaluate research studies, apply findings to practice, and evaluate one’s own practice interventions.
10. Use communication skills differentially across client populations, colleagues, and communities.
11. Use supervision and consultation appropriate to social work practice.
12. Function within the structure of organizations and service delivery systems and seek necessary organizational change.

BSW Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes outlined below have been formulated from the BSW Program Objectives to be consistent with the GSU General Education and Undergraduate Education Learning Outcomes.

Goal I. Communication

1. Students demonstrate written communication skills through research and position papers in subject areas affecting vulnerable populations.

2. Students demonstrate written communication skills specific to social work.
3. Students demonstrate oral communication skills through the completion of a class presentation on their respective field agency.

4. Students demonstrate oral communication skills specific to social work practice.

Goal II. Collaboration

1. Students demonstrate collaboration skills through case planning with clients.

2. Students demonstrate collaboration skills through partnering with other social agencies on behalf of their clients during their field internships.

Goal III. Critical Thinking

1. Students demonstrate critical thinking skills through the development of testable hypotheses and interpreting and analyzing data related to client and system problems.

2. Students demonstrate critical thinking skills through the gathering of client information and formulating, in collaboration with the client, a plan of action.
3. Students demonstrate critical thinking skills through the application of the values and ethics of the profession of social work to specific client, organizational, and community issues.
4. Students demonstrate critical thinking skills through a personal examination of their experiential learning in field education.

Goal IV. Contemporary Issues

1. Students demonstrate understanding of contemporary issues through the integration of theories of the larger social environment on individuals, families, and communities.

2. Students demonstrate analytic skills in contemporary issues through the analysis of a bill before the legislature using a framework for assessing the bill’s impact on specific populations within the state that includes making personal contact with the bill’s sponsor.

Goal V. Quantitative Skills
1. Students demonstrate quantitative skills through translating research into working with their clients during their field internship, known as evidence based practice.
2. Students demonstrate quantitative, as well as qualitative skills through their evaluation of their practice in their field internship.

Goal VI. Technology

1. Students demonstrate their technological skills through accessing online resources, utilizing databases, and preparing papers and power point presentations.

BSW Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Under Goal I Communication, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed through the a research paper in SW 3020, Methods of Social Work Research and a final paper on an aspect of adolescent and adult development in SW 3330 and SW 3340, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, I and II.

Learning Outcome 2 is assessed through the writing of social history and a case plan on a client that includes the setting of appropriate goals and objectives, intervention methods, and an assessment of goal achievement in SW 3720 and SW 3730, Social Work Practice 1 and 2.
Learning Outcome 3 is assessed through class presentations on their agency placement as part of the 400 hour internship in SW 4930, Integrative Seminar.
Learning Outcome 4 is assessed through a videotape of an in-class practice interview with a client in SW 3610, Communication Skills in Social Work and through engaging clients, co-workers, supervisors and community representatives during the field internship in SW 4390 and SW 4940, Field Education I and II.
Under Goal II Collaboration, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed in the Field Supervisors’ Evaluation Rating Form of the students working with individual clients and their families in developing strategies to accomplish their goals during field education in SW 4390 and SW 4940.
Learning Outcome 2 is assessed in the Field Supervisors’ Rating Form of the students’ working with other human service professionals to accomplish goals on behalf of clients during their field education in SW 4390 and SW 4940, Field Education I and II.
Under Goal III Critical Thinking, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed through satisfactory completion of an empirical research paper in SW 3020, Research in Social Work Practice.
Learning Outcome 2 is assessed in the Field Supervisors’ Rating Form in the students’ field education placement with clients in SW 4930 and SW 4940.
Learning Outcome 3 is assessed through class participation and papers in which students discuss and debate the ethical challenges of working with clients in the community.
Learning Outcome 4 is assessed through a professional weekly log kept during their field education in SW 4930/4940.
Under Goal IV Contemporary Issues, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed through exams on environmental and policy issues in SW 3320, Social Welfare Institutions and SW 3930, Social Welfare Policy.
Learning Outcome 2 is assessed through a final paper that analyzes a current bill in the Georgia legislature in SW 3930, Social Welfare Policy.
Under Goal V Quantitative Skills, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed through case reviews of their intervention with clients and client systems with supportive research in exams in SW 3720 and SW 3730, Social Work Practice I and II and through supervision session in the field internship in SW 4930 and SW 4940, Field Education I and II.
Learning Outcome 2 is assessed through an evaluation of practice assignment in SW 4940, Field Education II.
Under Goal VI Technology, Learning Outcome 1 is assessed through research papers in several courses.

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