FGCU Department of Social Work
Higher Education - Fort Myers, Florida, United States
FGCU Department of Social Work Employees
FGCU Department of Social Work Details
The mission of the Department of Social Work at FGCU is to prepare students with knowledge, skills, and values of professional social work practice. Graduates will demonstrate competence in strengths-based generalist practice and advanced clinical practice with diverse individuals, families, groups, organization and communities. The BSW Program prepares students for strengths-based generalist professional practice that teaches students to assist individual, families, and groups to identify their strengths and solve problems. Graduates will be equipped to work in a variety of public, nonprofit, and proprietary human service agencies. The mission of the MSW program is the preparation of competent and effective professional advanced clinical practitioners able to demonstrate critical thinking skills,promote lifelong learning, advance social work knowledge, and to provide leadership in the development of service delivery systems. The program educates students with specialized skills for advanced clinical practice with diverse client systems of various sizes. The MSW program is grounded in the profession's history, purposes, and philosophy and is based on a body of knowledge, values, and skills of the social work profession.
