Master of Social Work

The Master of Social Work invites you to reflect on your practice, appraise alternative practices and theories, and assess your clients needs in new ways.

It offers you an opportunity to critically evaluate your existing practice and provision, and gain skills to promote change, improve services and affect outcomes in the lives and situations of your clients. You will also learn to analyse and investigate theories and initiatives in social policy and their impacts.

• A strong focus on equity, social justice and social empowerment in teaching and research
• Ability to critically evaluate your existing practice and provision, appraise alternative practices and theories and investigate initiatives in social policy and their impacts
• Ability to develop and apply new knowledge to practice and social provision and assess your workplace and client needs in new ways.

This program provides opportunities for careers in evaluating existing practice, promoting change and improving services and outcomes that affect clientscircumstances. It equips you to analyse and investigate theories and initiatives in social policy and their impacts.