Master of Social Work 12 months Postgraduate Programme By City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) |TopUniversities
Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

43,866 USDTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

Social WorkMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Social Work

Degree

MSW

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

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:  e.g. Assessment and Interventions in Mental Health Counselling, Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions, Group Counselling and Therapy, Counselling Children and Youth, Working with Families in Transition, 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 overview

Main Subject

Social Work

Degree

MSW

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

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:  e.g. Assessment and Interventions in Mental Health Counselling, Cognitive-Behavioural Interventions, Group Counselling and Therapy, Counselling Children and Youth, Working with Families in Transition, 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.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
79+
To be eligible for admission, you must:
  • hold a recognized bachelor’s degree from one of the universities in Hong Kong or from any overseas institutions recognized for this purpose by the University; or
  • hold such other qualifications as deemed acceptable by the University as equivalent to the above; and
  • pass an admission interview.

1 Year
Sep

Domestic
43,866 USD
International
43,866 USD

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