Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)

Programme Director: Prof WONG, Victor C W

Hong Kong is a rapidly changing society with diverse problems and welfare needs posing many challenges for social work practitioners. To be effective, a professional social worker needs to know how to help individuals, groups and communities to solve problems, effect changes, wisely utilize scarce resources and improve the quality of life. The importance of social research and social policy is also given an emphasis.

The programme aims to develop students’ knowledge, skills and professional values so that the graduates can effectively meet the challenges of the society in a flexible, realistic, creative, professional and caring manner.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

I)	Major Courses	79 units
II)	Honours Project	3 units
III)	University Core Courses	13 units
IV)	General Education Courses	18 units
V)	Free Electives^#	15 units
		128 units

# Students may take additional GE courses (of Level 1 or 2) in any categories to fulfil the “Free Electives” requirement but only a maximum of 6 units will be counted towards the fulfilment of the “Free Electives” requirement.

Requirements

I.	Major Courses	79 units
	Major Required Courses (70 units)
	SOWK1005 Social Work in Contemporary Society	3 units
	SOWK1006 Human Development through the Life Span	3 units
	SOWK1008 Integrative Tutorial I	0 unit
	SOWK1009 Integrative Tutorial I	0 unit
	SOWK2005 Human Behaviour and Diversity	3 units
	SOWK2006 Social Work Intervention and Processes	2 units
	SOWK2008 Integrative Tutorial II	0 unit
	SOWK2009 Integrative Tutorial II	0 unit
	SOWK2018 Skills for Social Work Practice	2 units
	SOWK2019 Skills for Social Work Practice	2 units
	SOWK2028 Social Policy	2 units
	SOWK2029 Social Policy	2 units
	SOWK3005 Field Practice I	10 units
	SOWK3007 Law and Society	3 units
	SOWK3008 Integrative Tutorial III	0 unit
	SOWK3009 Integrative Tutorial III	0 unit
	SOWK3018 Social Work Research	2 units
	SOWK3019 Social Work Research	2 units
	SOWK3028 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Community Development)	2 units
	SOWK3029 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Community Development)	2 units
	SOWK3038 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Group)	2 units
	SOWK3039 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Group)	2 units
	SOWK3048 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Individual)	2 units
	SOWK3049 Theory and Practice in Social Work (Individual)	2 units
	SOWK3206 Social Dimensions of Health	3 units
	SOWK4005 Administration in Human Service Organizations	3 units
	SOWK4007 Social Work with Families	3 units
	SOWK4008 Field Practice II	5 units
	SOWK4009 Field Practice II	5 units
	SOWK4018 Integrative Tutorial IV	0 unit
	SOWK4019 Integrative Tutorial IV	0 unit
	SOWK4207 Social Work with People with Mental Health Problems	3 units

	Major Elective Courses (9 units)
	SOWK1015 Social Dimensions of Human Societies	3 units
	SOWK3205 Love and Human Sexuality	3 units
	SOWK4006 Social Welfare in Chinese Societies	3 units
	SOWK4205 Social Work with Disadvantaged Groups	3 units
	SOWK4206 Social Work with Older People	3 units
	SOWK4215 Social Work with Youth	3 units
	SOWK4216 Special Topics in Social Work	3 units
	SOWK4217 Globalization and Community Development Practice	3 units

II.	Honours Project	3 units
	SOWK4898 Social Work Honours Project	1 unit
	SOWK4899 Social Work Honours Project	2 units

III.	University Core Courses	13 units

IV.	General Education Courses^*	18 units

V.	Free Electives^*	15 units
		128 units

* Students are strongly advised to take SOWK1015 Social Dimensions of Human Societies and course "Psychology of Positive Living" under Free Electives to fulfil the registration requirements of Social Workers Registration Board.