| The School of Social Work aims to provide teaching/learning opportunities, research, outreach education, and public service in professional social work. Social work encompasses empowering and advocacy activities directed toward individuals, families, groups, organizations, social institutions, and communities for enhancement or restoration of their capacity for social functioning and for creating societal conditions favorable to that goal. Utilizing theories of human behavior and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments, seeks to promote human decency, personal dignity and respect for human rights, social justice, social and cultural tolerance and global peace. |