MSW Mission

The Mission of the Master of Social work Program at Roberts Wesleyan College is to prepare students in a Christian context for effective, compassionate, agency-based, advanced social work direct practice, with a commitment to low-income  populations.  The program aims to prepare students for exemplary service and leadership in private and public agencies with a continuing commitment to the College’s tradition of serving the Christian community locally, nationally, and internationally.

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MSW Goals

1. The principal goal of the Roberts Wesleyan College graduate Social Work Program is to prepare students for effective, compassionate, agency-based, social work advanced direct practice in child/family or physical/mental health settings.

2. In addition to providing students with advanced social work knowledge, values, and skills in an area of concentration, professional foundation knowledge, values, and skills are provided (based on a liberal arts perspective) that will enable students to work as generalists with clients of various sizes and types.

3. The Program aims to provide a coherent, logically developed curriculum that satisfies CSWE standards, fits with the mission of the College, and responds to constituent needs.

4. The Program intends to produce students who are able to identify and think critically about the multiple causes of problems, the nature and dynamics of change, and strategies for bringing about reconciliation and social justice.

5. The Program will provide students with an historical and contemporary understanding of the social work profession and the social welfare system to enable them to participate in bringing about positive changes in the profession and the social welfare system.

6. The Program considers it imperative to prepare graduates who are able to work effectively with diverse populations.

7. In keeping with one of the historic tenets of the profession and in response to local needs, the curriculum will give particular attention to low-income populations.

8. In response to the overall mission of the College as well as the historic commitment of the profession to holistic practice, the Social Work Program will prepare students to work with the spiritual and religious aspects of life in a professionally responsible manner.

9. The Social Work Program is committed to preparing students for value sensitive, ethically-based advanced social work practice.

10. The Program aims to provide a stimulating, demanding, and supportive environment for learning and to instill in students a commitment to on-going growth and development.