西密歇根大学社会工作专业研究生课程为您准备社会福利领域的直接服务和领导职位。它以一个二十四小时的基础课程开始，该课程建立在文科基础上，它将为您提供知识，价值观和技能，使您对职业有一个明晰的见解，并为进入以下两个重点之一做好准备：人际关系实践或政策，计划和管理。<br>人类行为，社会政策，文化/民族，研究和社会工作实践中的课程工作构成了基础课程，并介绍了解决问题的不同方法。现场教育在经验丰富的社会工作专业人士的精心监督下，为实践服务提供了机会，并为人类服务。
The mission of the Masters program is: we value scientific inquiry, service, integrity, ethics, competence and the power of justice to educate and co-create a diverse, equitable, and accessible Program focused on human rights and enhanced quality of life for persons and communities, locally and globally. <br><br>Our vision is a learner-centered school that develops social work leaders to impact social, economic, environmental, and racial justice through excellence in research and practice. <br><br>The goals of the Masters program are to:<br><br>provide a professional education that prepares advanced practitioners to enhance, advocate, and support social, economic, and environmental justice and personal well-being for all people.<br>prepare advanced practitioners who demonstrate the knowledge, skills, values, cognitive and affective processes necessary to work effectively with diverse, vulnerable, and marginalized populations. <br>prepare advanced practitioners who possess the needed knowledge, embrace social work values, and have the requisite skills needed to formulate and realize a vision of a just society. <br>prepare ethical, reflective, and competent advanced practitioners in Clinical Social Work to work with individuals, families, and groups, and in Policy, Planning, and Administration to work with organizations, communities, and institutions within a global and changing environment<br>prepare advanced practitioners to effectively engage, assess, and intervene with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and institutions by utilizing evidence-based knowledge and theories and guided by trauma informed, culturally responsive, and anti-racist models of practice.<br>prepare advanced practitioners with the knowledge, skills, values, cognitive and affective processes necessary to engage in practice informed research and research informed practice, and the ability to evaluate social work practice at micro, mezzo, and macro system levels. <br>prepare advanced practitioners who are grounded in a cultural-bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework, understand the historical roots of the social work profession, and can analyze, develop, and utilize social policy to advance justice policy to advance justice.