2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Social Work, BSW
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The Mission of California Baptist University’s Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Program is to develop generalist social work practitioners, who are biblically informed, legal, and ethically rooted, data-informed decision makers who are committed to serving within local, global, and congregational communities. Through the engagement and interprofessional collaboration of individuals and systems, CBU’s BSW graduates will advance the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities, with a firm commitment to biblical social justice.
The BSW program strives to develop graduates with the highest integrity and ethics that will distinguish them in the workplace and the world. The BSW program is committed to pursuing Christ-centered justice by equipping graduates to live their purpose and glorify God through community-based social action both locally and globally.
BSW Program Goals:
- Prepare biblically informed social work generalist practitioners.
- Prepare students to serve diverse and historically oppressed groups utilizing data-informed strategies and skills to engage in human rights and social justice advocacy.
- Prepare students to engage in interprofessional collaboration to increase effectiveness in micro, mezzo, and macro outcomes, in local, global, and congregational settings.
- Generate change-oriented research and scholarship to promote social and economic justice.
- Provide educational opportunities to assist undergraduate students in gaining the competencies necessary for generalist social work practice.
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) provides strict accreditation guidelines and has identified nine competencies that students must master in a BSW program. In addition to these learning outcomes the CBU BSW program has included a 10th competency that focuses on an integration of Biblical values.
The Ten Competencies include:
- Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior
- Engage diversity and difference in practice
- Advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice
- Engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice
- Engage in policy practice
- Engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Articulate the Christian worldview in relation to social work ethics and values in professional social work practice
According to CSWE, “social work education should focus on the generation of knowledge, the promotion of evidence-informed practice through scientific inquiry, and the exercise of leadership within the professional community. Further, social work education is advanced by the scholarship of teaching and learning and scientific inquiry into its multifaceted dimensions, processes, and outcomes” (EPAS, 2015). These ten competencies are aligned with the university’s core four values: academically prepared, biblically rooted , globally minded, and equipped to serve, which are reflected on each course syllabus.
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