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Graduate Program Goals

  1. To provide a professional education that prepares advanced practitioners to enhance, advocate, and support social and economic justice and personal well being for all people.
  2. To prepare advanced practitioners who demonstrate the knowledge and skillsnecessary to work effectively with diverse, vulnerable, and underserved populations.
  3. To prepare advanced practitioners who possess critical thinking skills, embrace social work values, and have the requisite skills needed to formulate and realize a vision of a just society.
  4. To prepare ethical, reflective, and competent advanced practitioners in Interpersonal Practice to work with individuals, families, and groups; and in Policy, Planning,and Administration to work with organizations, communities, and institutions within a global and changing environment.
  5. To prepare advanced practitioners who effectively intervene with individuals,families, groups, organizations, communities, and institutions by utilizing evidence­based knowledge and theories and guided by person­centered ecological models.
  6. To prepare advanced practitioners who possess the knowledge and skills necessary to consume and produce social work knowledge and the ability to actively participate in the evaluation of professional practice.
  7. To prepare advanced practitioners who are grounded in a bio­psycho­social­spiritual framework, understand the historical roots of the social work profession, and can analyze, develop, and utilize social policy.