Overview
Professional social workers are guided by:
A person and
environment construct, a global perspective, respect for human
diversity, and knowledge based
on scientific inquiry.
We also embrace several core values:
Service, social justice, the dignity and worth of people,
the importance of human relationships, integrity,
competence, human
rights, and scientific inquiry (see the NASW
Code of Ethics).
These values underpin our commitment to:
Respect of all people, social and economic justice,
and human and
community well-being.
These values underpin our MSUM Social Work program's
strategic statements:
Consistent with the mission of this upper Midwest
teaching university, and the Education Policy and Accreditation
Standards (2015) of the Council on Social Work Education, the
MSUM School of Social Work extends students’ liberal arts
foundation with an education necessary to become competent
entry-level social work professionals who possess the core
knowledge, values, and skills needed to engage in ethical and
evidence-based generalist practice with all people and all
levels of social organization in a dynamic and diverse society.
Graduates are prepared to promote, with integrity, planned
change through a person-in-environment framework and a strengths
perspective in order to advance social and economic justice, and
human rights, locally, nationally, and globally.
Further, with a liberal arts foundation, MSUM SSW graduates are prepared for entry-level professional social work practice, and continue their formal education in social work or other graduate discipline. Thus, MSUM SSW graduates will be prepared to:
1. Engage in evidence-based, entry-level social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities within local, national, and global multicultural societies;
2. Practice within the principles, values, and ethics that guide the social work profession;
3. Influence social policies to alleviate poverty, oppression, and social and economic injustice as well as advocate for human rights ;
4. Identify and affect the bio-psycho-social, spiritual, and cultural functioning of people and communities; and
5. Practice from a culturally-sensitive perspective that recognizes and appreciates diverse cultures, particularly those that differ from one's own.
These values also underpin our program's formal
competency-based educational structure and curriculum:
Accredited by the Council
on Social Work Education for almost 40 years, our
program's curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts, and uses
an intentional design to promote
mastery of 9 core competencies required for licensed
generalist practice throughout the United States.
Competency-based education is an outcome performance approach to curriculum design: Competencies are conceptual ideas that include measurable practice behaviors comprised of knowledge, values, and skills. Our goal in using this outcome approach is to assist students in learning, integrating, and applying the 9 competencies and their related 31 practice behaviors in practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities (CSWE 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation SDtandards-EPAS).
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Flood Statement Addendum:
Spring flooding in the Red River Valley can be challenging.
Often floods require sandbagging and levee
building, even temporary evacuation. A spring flood emergency may require us
to adjust our class schedule, alter our
instructional delivery, work independently, and perhaps make
special accommodations for students in extraordinary situations.
To be notified of any emergency, I strongly encourage each of
you to enroll in the E2Campus emergency notification system (http://web.mnstate.edu/security/ )
which will notify students about class cancellations and other
emergency related information. Should a significant flood
emergency occur that interrupts university processes, we will
proceed with instruction to the extent possible. (UPDATED: 17
November, 2015)
The Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUM) Social Work Program prepares competent and effective professionals for entry-level generalist social work practice. The MSUM Social Work Program also provides leadership in developing service delivery systems and advancing social and economic justice.