School of Social Welfare

University of California, Berkeley

Overview

The School of Social Welfare is a graduate professional school dedicated to educating social workers and social welfare scholars for a range of leadership, research, teaching, and advanced practice roles in the profession. Educational emphasis is on preparing students for professional responsibility in the field of social welfare and the institutional systems that support it, particularly public social services and publicly-supported voluntary social services. Graduate professional education at Berkeley is characterized by a spirit of critical inquiry and an emphasis on the use of tested knowledge and theory in developing and applying intervention methods. Classroom preparation focuses on knowledge of individual and family development, ethno-cultural factors, policies, and institutional systems governing services and research strategies for program development.

Undergraduate Program

Social Welfare: BA (offered under the jurisdiction of the College of Letters and Science)

Graduate Programs

Social Welfare:  MSW, Certificate, PhD

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Courses

Social Welfare

Contact Information

School of Social Welfare

120 Haviland Hall

Phone: 510-642-4341

Fax: 510-643-6126

socialwelfare@berkeley.edu

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Dean

Linda M. Burton

Haviland Hall 120

Phone: (510) 642-5039

swdean@berkeley.edu

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Susan Stone

Haviland Hall 221

Phone: (510) 643-6662

sistone@berkeley.edu

Graduate Admissions and Curriculum Advisor

Graduate Admissions

Phone: 510-642-9042

swadm@berkeley.edu

General Inquiries

General Inquiries

Phone: 510-642-4341

socialwelfare@berkeley.edu

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