社会工作专业

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Carthage’s professional social work curriculum equips students with knowledge, 值, and skills necessary for generalist practice. Through required field experiences, the department provides students with supervised opportunities to master the requisite competencies in actual practice situations.

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社会工作

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4+1 Public Health Dual-Degree Program

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Viewing the profession through a social justice lens, Carthage social work majors learn to work with individuals, 家庭, 社区, 和组织. Each senior then completes a community-based, two-semester internship to demonstrate the competencies needed in practice. The Carthage program allows many social work majors to enter graduate school with advanced standing.

The Carthage 社会工作 Department is accredited by the Council on 社会工作 Education, an international agency that assures a program meets the standards established for a bachelor’s degree in social work.

“I chose Carthage because of the programs it has to offer! No matter how I want to spend my time at Carthage, I feel there will always be something for me.”
Ydalia De Leon ’25
“All the social work classes I have taken are so interesting, and the professors really want the students to learn and grow.”
Emily Van Dixhorn ’26
“Students should consider social work because it is an eye-opening major that completely changes how people view the world. It is a major that aims at being the groundwork for helping people.”
Gabriella Tanguay ’25

Social work is an undergraduate major that prepares students to be competent and effective professionals, educated to provide leadership in the development of critical social service delivery systems. Based on a belief in the intrinsic value of all humankind and the advancement of social justice and human rights, we are committed to educating students to become anti-racist, anti-oppressive, generalist critical social work practitioners. Our program is committed to an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the liberal arts with critical social work knowledge and 值 to serve those most marginalized in the U.S. and the world by advancing social justice through courageous ideas and actions.

The Carthage 社会工作 Department follows academic standards for professional preparation set forth by the Council on 社会工作 Education. All aspects of the department are developed within the history, 哲学, and 值 of the profession.

部门目标

To educate students in applying professional 值, 道德, and knowledge grounded in anti-oppressive theories and social work practice.
To educate students in the 值 and knowledge of critical social work and social justice in collaboration with other disciplines.
To graduate anti-racist BSW generalist practitioners who will become courageous social change agents in their community.
The 社会工作 Department recognizes the insidiousness of institutional racism and is committed to being a leader at the College toward becoming an anti-racist institution.