Curriculum Design
- The MSW programme consists of 15 core courses amounting to 49 credits plus another 2 electives carrying 6 credits, making a total of 55 credit-units in the programme.
- 900 fieldwork training hours (800 hours direct fieldwork placements plus 100 hours placement preparation or related activities);
- Strengthening of the training in social work values and ethics, theories and practice to three courses emphasizing working with individuals and families, groups, community work and macro-level social work practice;
- Addition of human behavior and social environment course subject areas, and social sciences theories for social work to those students without a social sciences training background;
- Legal knowledge and perspectives for social workers;
- Enhancing mental health training, practice-related electives and advocacy for social work students.
- Integrative Social Work Seminar to train students becoming competent, reflective and good in professional practice.
The programme aspires to train students with ethical principles and foundations of social work practice, social work values and professional ethics, theories and practice skills in working with individual and families, groups and community, social welfare policies, social welfare management, legal issues for the social worker and social work research methods. The curriculum of the year 2 of Full-time 2 years mode and the year 2 and year 3 of Part-time 3 years mode strives to equip students to have the required professional supervised fieldwork training hours and the 100-hour Practicum-related learning workshops, plus the study of Integrative Social Work Seminar and elective courses in practice-related social work practice settings: Assessment and Interventions in Mental Health Counselling, Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions, Group Counselling and Therapy, Social Work Practice in a School Setting, Counselling Children and Youth, Working with Families in Transition, Critical Social Work Practice, Domestic Violence: Prevention and Treatment, Counselling Older Adults.
Students who (1) are non-social sciences graduates, or (2) have taken either psychology or sociology but not the other, are required to complete non-credit bearing Social Sciences Workshops SS5115 Social Sciences Theories for Social Work. These workshops are to be run in an intensive mode on Saturday within first five weeks of the semester A of their first year of study.
Programme Requirements
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- Programme Core Courses: (49 credits)
Course Code
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Course Title
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Credit Units
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Remarks
|
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SS5111
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Social Welfare Policy System and Reform
|
3
|
English
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SS5112
|
Social Welfare Management
|
3
|
English
|
SS5114
|
Legal Issues for the Social Worker
|
3
|
English
|
SS5117
|
Social Work as a Profession
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5209
|
Social Work Theories and Practice I: Working with Individuals and Families
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5210
|
Social Work Theories and Practice II: Working with Groups
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5211
|
Social Work Theories and Practice III: Community Work and Macro-level Social Work Practice
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5212
|
Human Behaviour and Diversity
|
3
|
English
|
SS5213
|
Social Work Research Methods
|
3
|
English
|
SS6219
|
Practicum Related Workshop I
|
1
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS6220
|
Practicum Related Workshop II
|
1
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS6221
|
Practicum Related Workshop III
|
1
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS6291
|
Fieldwork I
|
8
|
English and other languages (Remark 2)
|
SS6292
|
Fieldwork II
|
8
|
English and other languages (Remark 2)
|
SS6293
|
Integrative Social Work Seminar
|
3
|
English
|
- Programme Electives: (6 credits)
Course Code
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Course Title
|
Credit Units
|
Remarks
|
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SS5110
|
Assessment and Interventions in Mental Health Counselling
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5115
|
Social Sciences Theories for Social Work
|
0
|
- English
- Core Elective for those who do not have social science background
|
SS5208
|
Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5214
|
Working with Families in Transition
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5317
|
Social Work Practice in a School Setting |
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5318 |
Critical Social Work Practice |
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5802
|
Group Counselling and Therapy
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5803
|
Psychopathology
|
3
|
English
|
SS5805
|
Narrative-based Therapeutic Conversations: Theory and Practice
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5821
|
Counselling Children and Youth
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5824
|
Domestic Violence: Prevention and Treatment
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5832
|
Counselling Older Adults
|
3
|
English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua (Remark 1)
|
SS5835
|
Labour and Workplace Relations
|
3
|
English
|
Remark
- English, supplemented by Cantonese / Putonghua in live demonstration, skills rehearsal, and role-play exercises as situation requires.
- English and other languages appropriate to the practicum setting.