Duration

2 years

Start Date

August

Tuition Fee

$ 9,467 per year

Location

Carson, California, United States

About the programme

The Master of Social Work Program at California State University, Dominguez Hills is strategically located to focus on the diverse social service needs and problems particular to the South Bay area of Los Angeles County, a large metropolitan area, populated by a wide range of socially and culturally diverse people.

The Master of Social Work (MSW) program at California State University, Dominguez Hills is dedicated to pursuing a more just, global society through a critical, theoretical approach to social work education, research, and community-centered practice. Specifically, the program is dedicated to advancing anti-racist social work education that addresses societal dynamics stemming from intersectional oppression based on race, ethnicity, culture, gender, immigration, socioeconomic status, and membership in other categories historically subjected to oppression, discrimination, and indifference. Located in a diverse, complex urban setting, the program prepares Master level social workers to professionally and ethically deliver social work practice grounded in analysis, intervention, evaluation, and advocacy, which addresses racial oppression and other forms of structural inequality to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities.

Mission

A core aim of the Department of Social Work is to advance anti-racist social work education. The MSW program, grounded in Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, is committed to dismantling racism. CRT/I framework provides an interdisciplinary and critical approach to social work education that allow the CSUDH MSW program to train practitioners to understand that the conditions that a service user presents before the social worker have just as much, if not more, to do with institutions and systems than with the client themselves. Using a CRT/I perspective allow our students to understand individual clients’ issues through the barriers of institutional racism and the intersections of multiple layers of oppression. With the support of these theoretical frameworks, our students are well poised to enter the social work field with the tools to affect systems-level change in their communities. The curriculum is developed and organized as a coherent and integrated whole consistent with program goals and objectives. California State University, Dominguez Hills MSW program offers one concentration: Social Work Practice in Communities (SWPC), and three specializations that students can choose from: Children, Youth and Families (CYF), Community Mental Health (CMH), and Community Capacity Building (CCB).