Program Mission and Goals

mission

The BSW Program educates students to become competent social work professionals in practice, research, service, and advocacy areas who are prepared to:

  1. Promote human and community well-being by advocating for and promoting expansion of diversity, inclusion, access, and equity.
  2. Challenge social, racial, economic, and environmental injustice to reduce poverty and facilitate realization of expanded human rights. 
  3. Pursue positive social change to enhance quality of life for all through:
    • A strengths-based, person in environment construct that values the dignity and worth of every person;
    • A local, regional, state, and/or global perspective;
    • Knowledge based on a scientific inquiry- driven curriculum.
  4. Engage, assess, evaluate, and coordinate on all levels (micro, mezzo, macro) with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations.
  5. Uphold the core social work values of service, social justice, the dignity and worth of every person, the importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, human rights, and scientific inquiry, and practice through use of an anti-racist and anti-oppressive perspective.

Goals

Graduates of the UNC Charlotte BSW Program will be able to:

  1. Use a wide range of prevention and intervention methods in their practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities;
  2. Apply ethical principles, critical thinking, and incorporate diversity, inclusion, and equity in their practice;
  3. Recognize, support, and build on the strengths and resiliency of all human beings; and
  4. Engage in culturally informed research practice, respond proactively to the impact of context on professional practice, and integrate all the BSW Program’s core competencies in practice.

Graduates of the UNC Charlotte BSW Program will practice generalist social work in a manner that values service, social justice, the dignity and worth of the person, the importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, human rights, safety and scientific inquiry.

ACCREDITATION

The BSW Program at UNC Charlotte is accredited by CSWE (Council on Social Work Education). In 2016, the Commission on Accreditation reaffirmed accreditation for the BSW program at UNC Charlotte for 8 years. For more information, see Accreditation or School Assessment Data.

* Offered in support of the School of Social Work’s mission statement, which is responsive to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)’s accreditation requirements.