社会工作计划已获得社会工作教育理事会认可的学士学位。因此，它为学生提供了开始专业社会工作实践的通才框架。社会工作者帮助个人，家庭，团体和社区满足基本的人类需求并提高生活质量。该部的四个方案是相互联系的。该系鼓励与学院内其他部门和计划的合作，为艺术与文学学院的使命做出贡献。该部门专注于社区研究，理论和服务。社区在个人生活中起着举足轻重的作用，它是研究健康和疾病，多样性和社会等级以及刑事司法的平台。
The Social Work program offers a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work (BASW) degree program fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national accrediting agency. The program's mission is to prepare students to work as professionals in entry-level social work generalist practice. Graduates will become social workers dedicated to - Enhancing the quality of people's lives. Empowering individuals, families, groups, and communities. Advancing human rights and social and economic justice. The interconnected programs in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology contribute together to the mission of the College of Arts and Letters and encourage collaboration with other departments and programs within the College. The Department focuses on research, practice, and service to the community. The community plays a pivotal role in the life of individuals and serves as a platform from which to study health and illness, diversity and social hierarchies, and criminal justice. The focus on community enables us to showcase the usefulness of Sociology for understanding society, to create a niche for Social Work, particularly in the areas of child welfare, gerontology, and sexual diversity, and to find a pivotal role for Criminology through emphasizing rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders into the community. The Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology offers courses leading to the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a Criminology Concentration, the Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, the Associate of Arts in Criminology, and also the Sociology minor and the interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Studies minor. The Department also offers two graduate degrees, the Master of Arts in Sociology and the Master of Social Work