Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) - Part-time

Course Overview

Programme Features

The Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) is an articulation degree programme endeavouring to educate social workers who embrace their commitment in innovative and evidence-based professional practice with moral-ethical reflection, exerting professional impact in diversified socio-cultural-political contexts and practising leadership roles in human service settings.

Reflexive practice: To enhance our students’ reflexive social work practices with moral-ethical reflection
The students are equipped with cultural and social sensibilities articulated with social work theories and knowledge of Social Sciences. It prepares the students to make appropriate interventions in considering socio-cultural-political contexts to tackle social problems and difficulties faced by vulnerable and service users in the future.

Innovative-integrated practice: To strengthen our students’ innovative-integrated social work practices through interdisciplinary-collaborative learning experiences
Interdisciplinary-collaborative project is widely used in human services. It involves various professions from different disciplines working collaboratively to frame and construct innovative solutions for social problems. Interdisciplinary workshops and seminars on human services and social innovation are regularly organized for the students. It enables the students to integrate collaborative and innovative ideas into social work practices.

Evidence-based practice: To facilitate our students' integration of their social work practice with evidence-based knowledge
Evidence-based practice benefits social work practitioners and grounds their work with academic research, data and information in human services and practices. It empowers social workers to discover appropriate methods and evaluate existing services and practices. The programme curriculum is designed to develop the students’ evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies. It enables the students to systematically review, evaluate, implement and create social work practices and service models.

Future Prospects
Career Prospects
Graduates can become Registered Social Workers and work as Assistant Social Worker Officers in the social services sector.

Further Study Opportunities
Graduates can pursue postgraduate studies such as Master of Social Work, Master of Social Science (Social Service Management), Master of Social Science (Social Policy) and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Social Work and other related fields.