Overview

MSW Program Mission

The mission of the Master of Social Work program at California State University, Monterey Bay is to prepare advanced social work practitioners to meet the needs of multicultural, multilingual and diverse populations, with particular attention to the California Central Coast region, and for practice in dynamic and changing contexts.

The key components of the mission are in concert with the university vision and mission statements as well as the CSU mission. Furthermore, the MSW program will help expand the missions of CSUMB and CSU to reach out to the historically underserved student populations.

MSW Program Goals

The uniqueness of the MSW program emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, inclusive community process, clinical and cultural expertise, ethical leadership, and use of technology to provide culturally and linguistically competent service delivery, program planning and policy development through stated program goals.

The goals of the MSW program are to:

  1. Prepare social work practitioners with clinical and cultural expertise in providing culturally and linguistically competent behavioral health and social services for the unserved and underserved populations of the California Central Coast region;
  2. Prepare social work practitioners with critical thinking skills in culturally and linguistically competent behavioral health and social services for the unserved and underserved populations of the California Central Coast region;
  3. Be engaged in inclusive community process by incorporating community and stakeholders' input for continuous program development;
  4. Enhance collaboration within the agency setting and across related service delivery systems in behavioral health and social services;
  5. Integrate scientific inquiry, new pedagogical approaches and educational technology in instruction that advance outcomes-based education, evidence-based practice, and use of information technology;
  6. Prepare social work practitioners to apply social work values and to use strengths-based and life-span perspectives to meet clients where they are and to empower clients' use of strengths;
  7. Advocate social and economic justice by addressing the impacts of policy, social and economic oppression, poverty, discrimination, and prejudice on social work client populations and practice; and
  8. Advance social workers' ethical practice as well as skills in conflict resolution and ethical leadership.

Sponsored By

College of Health Sciences and Human Services > Department of Health, Human Services & Public Policy

Included Academic Fields

Social work, Collaborative Health and Human Services, human services, social services, human development, psychology, and counseling

Concentrations Offered

Behavioral Health (BH)

Children, Youth and Family (CYF)

Aging

Online Components

These courses are designated as hybrid (on campus and online):

  1. SW 510SW 510: Foundations of Social Work
  2. SW 540SW 540: Cross-Cultural HBSE I
  3. SW 541SW 541: Cross-Cultural HBSE II
  4. SW 550SW 550: Social Work Research
  5. SW 551SW 551: Data Analysis
  6. SW 570SW 570: Social Policy & Analysis
  7. SW 610ASW 610A: Intro to Behavioral Health
  8. SW 610BSW 610B: Intro to Children, Youth Fam
  9. SW 640SW 640: Advanced Conflict Resolution
  10. SW 650SW 650: Leadership & Administration

Associated Course Codes

SW (Graduate courses are 500 and 600 level)