Social Work

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Overview

Social Work from The Chinese University of Hong Kong is designed for students with a bachelor degree not majoring in social work, and is suitable for those who wish to develop a career in social work through postgraduate training. Course work of the Programme aims to provide students with solid conceptual framework and theoretical foundation for social work practice.

Apart from developing social work knowledge and skills, the Programme also aims at helping students cultivate a positive identification with social work values and ethics.In additional to the academic content, all students are required to undertake a period of supervised practice in two different social service organizations during the training. We consider the high quality coursework and placement training to be the most valuable components of this professional programme.

Students at Social Work from The Chinese University of Hong Kong will gain:

• an understanding of the foundation knowledge, humanistic values and ethics of social work and social policy as well as management knowledge that will allow the students to solve personal and social problems;

• the ability to integrate theories with practice in working with individuals, groups, families, communities and institutions; and

• the use of scientific research methods in addressing critical social issues.