Bachelor of Social Work

Skills and knowledge you may gain from your program:

• Ability to practice social work in accordance with social work codes of ethics
• Understanding of social work’s professional role in advancing human rights
• Ability to critically analyze social, political and economic structures that limit human and civil rights
• Ability to advance social justice for individuals, families, groups and communities
• Knowledge about how discrimination and oppression have a negative impact on particular individuals and groups.
• Ability to reflect on their self as it relates to engaging in professional practice through a comprehensive understanding and consciousness of the complex nature of their own social locations and identities
• Ability to apply critical thinking to structural sources of inequalities in the Canadian context.
• Skills in social work research
• Ability to interpret social policies and processes
• Ability to identify gaps in organizational and societal systems and advance solutions to change oppressive social conditions
• Competently perform professional practices including engagement, referral, assessment, planning, intervention, negotiation, mediation, advocacy and evaluation.
• Engage in interprofessional practice with individuals, families, groups and/or communities