पाठ्यक्रम परिवर्तनशीलता

पाठ्यक्रमबारे सारश

This program is designed for individuals who have graduated within the last six years from an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). If students have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, this may be an opportunity for students to earn their MSW degree in a summer and one year. Social Group Work content covers the full range of social group work knowledge and skills. These include knowledge and ability to empower groups to enhance personal well-being, improve coping functions, develop problem solving capacities, achieve clinical therapeutic benefits, and advocate for social action. Through their course work and field placements, students will gain knowledge focused primarily on small group theories; small group dynamics and processes, program theory and utilization, theories and methods of bio-psycho-social assessment and intervention, contemporary group methods, natural support systems, basic principles and practices regarding the use of groups in administration, supervision and consultation in public/private agency practice, social and behavioral research methods related to group work interventions and outcomes. Group Work skills include the ability to establish relationships with groups and their members, helping them work together to achieve mutually agreed upon goals, ability to assume a variety of functions and roles - enabler, facilitator, change agent, therapist, advisor, teacher or role model, ability to assess individual, group as a whole, environment of group skills in dealing with functions and dysfunctions of social conflict. Social Group Workers hold a wide range of positions in public and private social agencies, in hospitals, day treatment and clinical programs, in public and private schools, special education programs, community-based programs, residential treatment facilities, group homes and halfway houses, homeless shelters, and in court supported programs.

कार्यक्रमका खाकाहरू

The modules are Advanced Standing courses: Advanced Concentration Course 3, Advanced Concentration Courses 9, Skills Laboratory 1, Advanced Research (Fall) 2, Special Populations 1 1, Advanced Field Education III 4, Advanced Field Education IV 4, Advanced Field Advising Seminar 1, Electives 9. Group Work Concentration: GRWK 5301 Essentials of Social Group Work Practice 3, GRWK 5302 Differential Group Work: Populations and Settings 3, GRWK 5303 Advanced Group Work Practice Methods and Techniques 3, GRWK 5311 Group Processes 3.

अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विद्यार्थीहरू प्रवेशको लागि आवश्यकता

Students must hold a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent from a regionally accredited college or university with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 for the entire undergraduate record or a grade point average of at least 3.0 for the last two undergraduate years. Students should have the test of English as a foreign language (TOEFL) minimum overall score of 550 for the paper-based test, 213 for the computer-based test.

योग्यता

स्नातकोत्तर उपाधि

प्रदान गर्ने निकाय

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

विभागको नाम

School of Social Work