Social Work - Long Island University - Brooklyn NY

Social Work from Long Island University - Brooklyn NY is a Campus Bachelor Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. The 128-credit B.A. in Social Work seeks to train entry-level social work practitioners and prepare them to meet the growing, unique and varied social service needs of the diverse communities of Brooklyn and the greater New York area. These practitioners will have strong clinical, advocacy and administrative skills that they will put to use in community-based organizations across the region. The first, and currently only, accredited social work program in Brooklyn, the B.A. in Social Work places emphasis on working with the growing geriatric population; with racially, ethnically and socially diverse groups; and with immigrant populations. The program distinguishes itself by tailoring the curriculum to reflect and to respond to the educational needs of a non-traditional, ethnically diverse student body, that will in turn, work with an equally diverse population of more than 4,000,000 people in Brooklyn. It further distinguishes itself by affording local community-based organizations with the opportunity to articulate their needs for well-trained generalists, by allowing them to have input into the nature of the program's curriculum. In addition to preparing students for careers in social work, the program also prepares students who seek to pursue a graduate degree in social work and in other related fields. The program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Program Goals In accordance with its mission and the mission of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the B.A. in Social Work seeks to: Provide students with a strong liberal arts foundation that supports a social work curriculum and that includes content about social work practice with client systems of various sizes and types. Prepare graduates to practice with diverse populations ? in particular, the racially, ethnically, socially, economically diverse and immigrant populations of Brooklyn and the greater New York area. Offer courses and other learning experiences that relate to the social context of social work practice, the changing nature of those contexts, the behavior of organizations and the dynamics of change. Infuse throughout the curriculum, the values and the ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice. Prepare graduates who are aware of their responsibility to continue their professional growth and development, including graduate study, especially in social work. Develop the Social Work program to serve as a resource for groups and for organizations whose mission and purpose is to uplift their racially, ethnically, socially, economically diverse and immigrant constituencies in Brooklyn and in the greater New York area. View more details on Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.