Goals and Standards
Goals & Standards
The Department of Social Work prepares students for professional practice through a mission-driven curriculum and program goals aligned with social work values, ethics, and service to diverse communities.
Mission Statement
As part of Colorado State University Pueblo, a regional comprehensive university, the social work program prepares students for beginning generalist practice with diverse client populations across systems of all sizes, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
The Department of Social Work mission emphasizes competent practitioners who serve diverse populations across system sizes, aligning with the university’s commitment to resilience, agility, and problem-solving. The program is tailored to meet the needs of constituencies in southeastern Colorado and reflects the university’s commitment to access and diversity.
BSW Goals & Standards
Our goals are to:
- Provide BSW students with a range of skills, attitudes, and knowledge grounded in social work values and ethics.
- Students will apply social work values and ethics to social work practice with diverse systems.
- Students will evaluate the professional use of self in interactions with diverse systems.
- Develop culturally competent professionals who can intervene appropriately in systems of all sizes with an emphasis on regional populations.
- Students will develop culturally competent knowledge, values, and skills for beginning-level social work practice with diverse systems.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to practice with diverse populations in a multicultural environment including Chicanos, Mexicans, and American Indians.
- Develop the ability of BSW students to advocate for social-economic justice with systems of all sizes.
- Students will identify factors which impact the attainment of social and economic justice for diverse systems.
- Students will select and apply appropriate intervention methods to develop and enhance social-economic justice across diverse systems.
- Engage BSW students in a process of practice-informed research and research-informed practice.
- Students will use critical thinking skills to develop knowledge and understanding of research relevant to beginning social work practice with diverse systems.
- Students will interpret, evaluate, and implement relevant research, linking theory to practice, as they engage in beginning-level social work practice with diverse systems.
MSW Goals & Standards
Our goals are to:
- Prepare advanced social work practitioners with ethical consciousness, cultural competence, and a commitment to lifelong learning that gives back to the profession and enhances the global community.
- Provide students with advanced skills in engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation to competently serve diverse client populations at all levels of practice and across the lifespan, using the ecological perspective as a foundation.
- Prepare students to engage in policy practice, advocate for social and economic justice, and engage in research in its many forms to better serve individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
