Delta State University began offering social work courses in 1972, granted its first B.A. in 社会 Work in 1974, and granted its first Bachelor of 社会 Work Degree (BSW) in 1980. The 社会工作学系 is fully accredited by the Council on 社会 Work Education, 社会工作的国家认证机构. 该项目自1983年以来一直获得认证. 研究生s are recognized as entry-level professional social workers that are eligible for jobs requiring baccalaureate education in social work. BSW graduates from DSU are also eligible for licensure at the LSW level in the State of Mississippi.
任务
Consistent with the mission of the university and built on a strong liberal arts foundation, the Bachelor of 社会 Work program at Delta State University seeks to prepare students with the 研究-informed knowledge, 值, 和技能 needed for generalist social work practice with diverse systems of all sizes. The program offers undergraduate and continuing professional education opportunities that emphasize service to rural communities, 自决权, 社会和经济公正, 道德, 尊重差异和多样性. 使用人在环境中的视角, the program seeks to educate and produce social work professionals who seek to prevent conditions that limit human rights (such as poverty) and enhance the well-being and quality of life for all people, 尤其是弱势群体和受压迫者, locally and globally through scientific inquiry and service provision using the core 值 of the social work profession as a guide.
编程的目标
DSU BSW项目将:
Prepare practitioners who engage in ethical and competent generalist social work practice with diverse systems of all sizes by providing a dynamic 研究-informed, competency-based curriculum focused on the demonstration of professional knowledge, 值, 和技能.
- Encourage the development of a strong professional identity and a commitment to the 值 and 道德 of the social work profession in future practitioners by providing a learning environment that models and applies social work frameworks.
- 准备理解的社会工作从业人员, 价值, and 尊重 difference and diversity by emphasizing culturally sensitive humility, 同理心, 民族自决, 善良, and service that advances human rights and enhances the well-being of all people and seeks to prevent conditions that limit these (such as poverty).
- 促进理解社会的后果的重要性, 经济, and environmental injustice and preventing and alleviating injustice and oppression, 尤其是弱势群体, through 宣传 and the provision of evidence-based trauma-informed education and care.
- Prepare practitioners who understand and appreciate the role and 价值 of ethical scientific inquiry and methodological experimentation by engaging faculty and students in 研究 and scholarship activities.
- 让学生参与评估, 干预, and evaluation processes of competency-based social work education with diverse systems of all sizes using innovative simulation and service-learning experiences that promote competent care and well-being at all levels.
- Promote healthy and mentally healthy human growth and development through the integration and use of the person in environment perspective, 模拟教育和自我照顾模式.
- Maintain adequate field resources with agency partners and organizations serving individuals, 家庭, 组, 以及能够发展现实世界能力的社区.
- Promote the importance of lifelong learning by providing continuing education programs that enhance professional knowledge, 值, 和技能.
- 通过与个人合作提供资源和领导, 家庭, 组, 各级社区机构和组织.
Delta State University’s BSW Program seeks to develop professional social workers who have the generalist knowledge, 值, 和技能 which help them to understand social problems and human needs which lead to alternative ways of intervening in these situations. The curriculum is designed to educate and develop a professional social worker who, 符合社会工作专业的价值观和道德规范, is able to provide direct services to people as they experience needs in their interaction with others and the environment. General education and special degree requirements provide a broad liberal arts base which emphasizes the social and behavioral sciences and is a necessary foundation for the professional social work courses. 社会工作课程要求包括学术与课堂相结合, 模拟, 志愿者, 以及现场经验.
With the liberal arts and a person in environment perspectives as its foundation, BSW graduates are prepared to continue their formal education in social work or engage in entry-level social work practice because they have demonstrated mastery in CSWE 能力/learning outcomes.
能力
项目学习成果(PLOs)/CSWE能力(来自CSWE EPAS, 2015)
完成DSU BSW课程后, 学生应掌握全面的社会工作知识价值观, 和技能 taught in the BSW curriculum and be able to demonstrate the following program learning objectives and CSWE 2015 competencies:
- 表现出职业道德和专业行为.
- 在实践中运用多样性和差异性.
- 促进人权与社会、经济和环境正义
- 从事以实践为基础的研究和以研究为基础的实践.
- 参与政策实践.
- 与个人、家庭、团体、组织和社区接触.
- 评估个人、家庭、团体、组织和社区.
- 干预个人、家庭、团体、组织和社区.
- Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, 组织, and Communities.
(See the Appendix where the full description with behavioral indicators of these competencies is provided).
社会正义声明
社会, 经济, and environmental justice is important to the DSU BSW Program and is part of the NASW Code of Ethics which we adhere to and the CSWE Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards competencies which we demonstrate. 我们在整个课程中都教授它, 包括在我们的作业中, 志愿者活动, 和模拟, 并以善良为榜样, 尊重, 宣传, 各种各样的活动. 我们所有的教学, 研究, 服务活动力求促进和倡导人人享有正义, 尤其是穷人, 弱势群体和受压迫者在各级社会工作实践中. Whenever injustice occurs, we try to listen and learn and then respond appropriately.
