Master of Social Work

Programme Director: Dr FUNG, Kwok Kin

The MSW is a professional master’s degree designed for those who have undergraduate training in social work or social sciences and human service related degree programme 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:

Requirements