Social Work

专业详情

Crown Family School’s Master of Arts Program in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration (SW) is an AM degree, artium magister (master of arts). It is equivalent to an MSW but with a broader educational and experiential foundation that combines direct social work practice with policy development, interdisciplinary research, and social science theory. The comprehensive and interdisciplinary nature of the AM degree translates into greater flexibility and choice in your future career.

The Crown Family School master’s program has been continuously accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and its predecessor organizations since 1919. The rigor and quality of a Crown Family School education have earned us a spot among the world’s top graduate schools of social work.

The goal of all Crown Family School coursework and fieldwork is to frame individual distress in a larger social context. To be an effective social worker, social administrator, or policy maker, you must be able to recognize and understand the diverse and intersecting causes of distress: psychological, biological, familial, political, economic and social. This broader understanding will inform the methods you use to help people overcome their own unique challenges, prevent problems from occurring in the first place, and craft new solutions to ongoing problems.

The Master’s degree in Social Work, Social Policy, and Social Administration (SW) aims to provide a sophisticated understanding of the person-in-environment and to develop competencies and practice behaviors to effect change. Individual distress is seen in a social context, influenced by biological, economic, familial, political, psychological, and social factors. This perspective recognizes that economic, organizational, political, and social factors shape the work of social welfare professionals. Effective helping requires a broad understanding of possible responses, ranging from short-term strategies for gaining new resources and skills to long-term social and psychological interventions. The professional must be aware of and able to act within the web of relationships that link individual well-being with wider social and political forces to achieve social and economic justice.