Master of Social Work

The MSW is a professional master’s degree designed for those who have undergraduate training in social work and wish to advance their knowledge and skills for social services. It has both full-time and part-time modes of delivery. The length of the programme is one year (full-time) or two years (part-time) including summer term.

The outcome goals of the MSW programme are:

  1. To become reflective practitioners who are able to assess changing social needs and adapt their own performance accordingly;
  2. To become self-directed learners, recognising personal educational needs, selecting appropriate learning resources and evaluating progress;
  3. To develop specialised knowledge and skills at advanced level to match up with the emerging social needs and problems in all their complexity and extensiveness;
  4. To be able to assess critically professional activities and advocate for appropriate reforms in the system;
  5. To acquire the competence as a researcher-practitioner, so as to enrich one’s knowledge base for the development of new policies and interventions for emerging issues; and
  6. To be able to recognise, maintain and develop professional identity to ensure the contribution of the profession in the changing times.

The 30-unit programme is designed to be completed in one year by full-time study or two years by part-time study. Only under exceptional circumstances may students seek extension of the period of study. The programme emphasises student-oriented active learning, and it is geared towards developing opportunity for students to develop a concentration in either youth work or in mental health.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

I) Integrative Courses 12 units
II) Concentration Courses 9 units
III) Elective Courses 9 units
    30 units

Requirements

I. Integrative Courses 12 units
  SOWK7010 Social Work in a Changing Social Context 3 units
  SOWK7030 Critical Management Practice 3 units
  SOWK7040 Research and Programme Evaluation 3 units
  SOWK7410 Human Diversity and Cultural Differences 3 units
     
II. Concentration Courses 9 units
  Choose one concentration: 
  Mental Health Practice Concentration  
  SOWK7110 Mental Health, Mental Disorder and Social Work 3 units
  SOWK7210 Working with Families with Mental Health Issues 3 units
  SOWK7230 Crisis Management and Integrated Mental Health Practice 3 units
     
  Youth Work Concentration  
  SOWK7170 Youth at the Margins: Theory and Practice 3 units
  SOWK7220 Youth and Cultural Practice 3 units
  SOWK7240 Critical Youth Work 3 units
     
III. Elective Courses 9 units
  SOWK7120 Child and Adolescent Mental Health 3 units
  SOWK7151 Dissertation 3 units
  SOWK7152 Dissertation 3 units
  SOWK7310 Globalization and Community Development Practice 3 units
  SOWK7430 Narrative Approach to Counselling 3 units
  SOWK7500 Family Therapy 3 units
  SOWK7840 Data Methodology in Social Sciences Research 3 units
  SOWK7890 Career Facilitation and Counselling 3 units
     
  Mental Health Practice Concentration  
  SOWK7170 Youth at the Margins: Theory and Practice 3 units
  SOWK7240 Critical Youth Work 3 units
  SOWK7730 Social Work with Youth 3 units
     
  Youth Work Concentration  
  SOWK7110 Mental Health, Mental Disorder and Social Work  3 units
  SOWK7210 Working with Families with Mental Health Issues 3 units
  SOWK7440 Narrative Practice with Specific Youth Groups 3 units
    30 units

 

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