School of Social Work

The UMBC campus is ideal for undergraduate social work education. Students are able to draw on the strength of the campus’s core of liberal arts education, as well as a host of sophisticated information and technology resources such as the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery and the campus computer laboratories. The social work program has its own computer lab, which contains computers with internet access and printing capabilities and is available to all social work majors. Social work students also have available to them the complete resources of two other campuses located in close proximity to UMBC: the University of Maryland, Baltimore where the master’s and doctoral programs of the School of Social Work are located and the flagship campus of the University System, University of Maryland, College Park. Social work students also benefit from the numerous and varied social service programs and agencies located in the greater Baltimore-Washington region.

Policy on Previous Life or Work Experience

Consistent with the Council on Social Work Education’s Educational Policies and Accreditation Standards, the baccalaureate Social Work Program does not grant course credit or exemptions for previous life or employment experience.

Baccalaureate Social Work Program Goals

The goals of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program are to:

1) educate beginning generalist social workers to demonstrate competence in the self-critical and accountable use of the profession’s conceptual, ethical, practical, theoretical and empirical underpinnings, and be able to integrate this knowledge with the liberal arts perspective; and 2) engage in scholarship to enhance the quality of social work education and practice.

Department

Social Work