The Bachelor of Arts degree program with a major in Social Work (BASW) offers generalist preparation for professional entry-level positions in a variety of social service settings. Social Work is the appropriate professional program for students whose job expectation and career goals include working with special populations and social problems such as child abuse, aging, mental health, probation and parole, adoptions, foster care, community services, school social work, medical social work, residential facility care, corrections, hospices, hospital and other public and private human service agencies
Goals & Objectives:
The goals of the BASW Program are to:
- Prepare competent social work professionals for effective entry-level generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities;
- Prepare students for generalist social work practice with rural populations particularly in North Central Louisiana; and
- Prepare students to meet the social service needs of the African-American community.
The objectives of the program stipulates that students will:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the biological, psychological and social structural components of human beings in their functional capacity as individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities;
- Trace the evolution of social welfare as an institution while evaluating the social, economic and political milieu which determines policies programs and services;
- Apply generalist social work practice skills with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities, in diverse settings and with diverse populations;
- Demonstrate knowledge of how research and statistics may be used to guide one as consumer and as foundation for a beginning examination of practice;
- Perform in agency, under supervision, the generalist practice skills
sufficient for intervention with individuals, families, groups, and
communities and with diverse populations in diverse settings, but most particularly in rural Louisiana; - Demonstrate knowledge of social work's values, ethics, and ethical dilemmas;
- Discuss issues of social, economic and political justice identifying environments that give value to one set of policies, procedures and practices over another;
- Analyze the impact of social policy on African Americans, women, individuals with different sexual preference, the physically, mentally, and developmentally challenged and other-at-risk populations;
- Demonstrate leadership responsibility; and
- Discuss the importance of continuing professional education
