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About Social Work at UWRF
Social Work is the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities
enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal
conditions favorable to that goal. In general, social work is planned, purposeful
intervention, based on professional knowledge, values, and skills which are aimed
at both individual and social change. Social workers seek to strengthen and improve
the capability of people and systems to cope with the tasks and problems they
face in life and to promote improvements in the social environment which will
enable human needs to be more adequately met.
Social Work is an active "doing" profession with a long history of caring
for persons, and social change. Social Workers are involved in wide-ranging
tasks in many different public and private auspices. Some of the kinds of places
Social Workers can be found include: child and adult protective services, counseling
and mental health centers, probation and parole, neighborhood & community organizations,
schools, employee assistance programs, labor unions, hospital and long term
care facilities. Social Workers can be found almost any place where people and
organizations come together
UWRF offers students a Bachelor of Social Work degree ("BSW"-
a major in Social Work). At the undergraduate level, this liberal arts course
of study prepares a student for beginning, generalist, professional practice.
The Program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the
nationally recognized accrediting organization. The Program is competitive,
and students holding an accredited BSW may receive recognition by Graduate Programs
in Social Work, leading to advanced standing toward a Master's of Social Work
degree (MSW), the terminal practice degree in the profession. State licensing
boards in Social Work recognize the UWRF BSW as meeting requirements to sit
for licensure examinations.
The UWRF Social Work Faculty is committed to providing students with the values, skills, and
knowledge to be caring and effective professionals.
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The program of study in Social Work includes the following courses:
- SWK 150 Introduction to Social Work Services
- SWK 205 Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare
- SWK 215 Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- SWK 250 Use, Abuse & Addiction
- SWK 260 Practice with Diverse Populations
- SWK 300 Social Work Research Methods
- SWK 324 Theory & Practice of Social Work I (Micro)
- SWK 325 Theory & Practice of Social Work II (Small Groups)
- SWK 350 Social Welfare Policy
- SWK 424 Advanced Interviewing & Crisis Intervention
- SWK 426 Theory & Practice of Social Work III (Macro Practice)
- SWK 389 Special Topics in Social Work (Mental Health, Child Welfare, Suicide, Family)
- SWK 472 Social Work Field Instruction (In a Social Work Agency)
- SWK 480 Senior Integrative Seminar
- SWK 481 Integrating Practice & Research
UWRF BSW students engage in a two-semester fieldwork experience in their senior
year. The experience is at least a 450 hour internship supervised by accredited
Social Work field instructors. Over 60 agencies located in the Twin Cities of
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Western Wisconsin and Eastern Minnesota participate to provide
opportunities for real-world practice.
- Admissions Procedures
- For complete information regarding admissions requirements, procedures
and deadlines contact the Admissions Office, 112 South Hall, 715.425.3500
Admissions website
e-mail: admit@uwrf.edu
Social Work Program Mission, Goals and Objectives
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- For more information contact:
- Dr. Ogden W. Rogers, Social Work Program Director
Social Work Program
College of Education & Graduate Studies
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
410 S. Third Street
River Falls, WI 54022-5001
(715)425-3655
ogden.w.rogers@uwrf.edu
