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Master's in Social Welfare
The
School of Social Welfare offers a two-year program of study
leading to the MSW degree. The program is accredited by the
Council on Social Work Education.
The
MSW program seeks to educate social workers for a range of
leadership and advanced practice roles in the profession.
While students will be prepared to practice at specific intervention
levels, and with specialized skills, all will be thoroughly
grounded in a knowledge of social and psychological concerns,
social welfare policies, and social service organizations.
Professional
education at Berkeley is characterized by a spirit of critical
inquiry and an emphasis on the use of tested knowledge and
theory in developing and applying intervention methods. Classroom
preparation focuses on knowledge of individual and family
development, ethnocultural factors, policies and institutional
systems governing services, and research strategies for program
development and evaluation.
Berkeley's
educational emphasis is on preparing students for professional
responsibility in the field of social welfare and the institutional
systems which comprise it, particularly public social services
and publicly supported voluntary social services. The modes
of practice emphasized include those most relevant to the
public service system.
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