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***NEW INFORMATION REGARDING THE MASTER'S PROGRAM CLICK ON LINK TO THE LEFT FOR MORE INFORMATION
Mission Statement
The Mission of the Social Work Program is to prepare students for entry-level professional social work practice. This includes preparing graduates of the program primarily for an urban population, the promotion of social and economic justice, to respond to diversity and oppression, and to serve populations-at-risk. Additionally, the program provides leadership and a reservoir of social work professional for the region.
The Goals of the Social Work Program are to:
1. Prepare students for professional entry-level generalist social work practice to effectively meet the human needs of individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities in Metro Nashville.
2. Provide students with an understanding of the dynamics and consequences of human oppression and discrimination and with strategies to promote social and economic justice.
3. Prepare students to be comitted to life-long learning and continued personal and professional growth and to provide leadership in the development of the profession and the service delivery system.
4. Provide students with the content about the social environment of social work practice, the changing nature of this context, and the behavior of organizations and the change process.
5. Infuse throughout the curriculum the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.
6. Provide to students of diverse social, economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds the opportunity to become professional social workers.
For more information, write the Social Work Program, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Campus Box 9525, Nashville, TN 37209, or call (615) 963-7641, or click HERE to send an E-mail.