长岛大学社会工作硕士（MSW）计划的任务是教育和培训专业的社会工作从业人员，这些从业人员应基于专业的历史，宗旨和理念，并能够胜任并有效地与各种人合作纽约市及其周边地区的客户和客户系统的数量。胜任的实践不可或缺的是参与跨学科合作的能力。我们的MSW计划的毕业生准备参加实践，这是由多种理论和知识，社会工作价值观以及专业的社会工作技能所启发的.MSW计划提供了逐步的发展，以支持学生对通才和专业的理解社会工作实践。通才实践课程包括社会工作基础领域中的内容：政策，实践，人类行为，研究，多样性，专业价值观和促进社会正
The mission of the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program at Long Island University is to educate and train professional social work practitioners who are well grounded in the profession's history, purpose, and philosophy and who can competently and effectively work with diverse populations of clients and client systems in the richness of the New York City and beyond. Integral to competent practice is the ability to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration. Graduates of our MSW program are prepared to engage in practice that is informed by a diverse body of theories and knowledge, social work values, and professional social work skills.<br><br>The LIU MSW Program is accredited by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE), signifying that it meets the highest standards of academic excellence. The Master of Social Work (MSW) Program at LIU Brooklyn is a collaboration with the LIU Post campus in Brookville, New York.<br><br>Our MSW program provides a step-wise progression to support student understanding of generalist and specialized social work practice. The generalist practice curriculum includes content in the foundation areas of social work: policy, practice, human behavior, research, diversity, professional values, and promotion of social justice, and applied through a field education experience.<br><br>The advanced year curriculum deepens the student's understanding and demonstrated mastery of psychosocial assessment, administrative theory and practice, and diversity sensitive practice. Students select a specific area of concentration for specialized education in a particular area of practice. Field experience in the second year provides an opportunity for the student to apply in practice specialized knowledge, values and skills gained through their selected concentration.