Wayne State University School of Social Work's Goals
1. To prepare BSW students for ethical, competent entry level, generalist professional social work practice, particularly in urban settings with diverse, poor, vulnerable and oppressed individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
2. To prepare MSW students for ethical, competent advanced level professional social work practice, with a focus on interpersonal practice or community practice and social action, particularly in urban settings with diverse, poor, vulnerable and oppressed individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
3. To create and transmit knowledge through research and scholarship that is integrated in teaching and service and that advances social work practice and social welfare policy.
4. To expand mutually beneficial partnerships with our social work, social welfare, and other human-service-communities-of-interest to enrich teaching, research and scholarship, and to take a leadership role in development of service delivery systems that improve and enrich human conditions locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
5. To foster a commitment to continuing education, maintaining competence in practice, and seeking opportunities for renewal and advancement within the profession.