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Welcome to Social Work!

You may pursue the following undergraduate academic plans in NAU’s Social Work Program:

• Bachelor of Social Work (extended major)

• Minor in Social Work
  

Our social work program is dedicated to enhancing human life locally, statewide, and globally by promoting quality social work practice that builds on client system strengths and empowerment abilities. The practice for which we educate is geared to rural and indigenous populations of the Southwest and is focused on improving social and economic justice with at-risk populations. Please take a look at this informational video regarding our program:

Our mission is to educate generalist social workers; to promote efforts to develop and improve human services in a variety of settings; to enhance practitioner ability to work with diverse clients; to promote active efforts to address poverty, structural racism, and oppression; to serve professional and underserved communities by using distance-learning technologies in off-site programming; and to contribute to the development of knowledge and scholarly work reflecting rural knowledge and practice that flows from local to international contexts.

The mission of our social work program is expressed in the following goals:

• to practice as generalist social workers with knowledge, values, and skills for working with diverse client systems of various sizes;
• to understand and work effectively with diverse populations;
• to promote continued professional development and enhancement of knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice; and
• to provide service to the community and promote social and economic justice.

NAU’s social work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

The Bachelor of Social Work program is an in-person program offered at the Flagstaff Mountain Campus and the Yuma Campus. Additionally, cohorts are offered periodically in Tuba City, Arizona.

NAU DOES NOT OFFER A MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK DEGREE (MSW). FOR MSW INQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY AT (602) 496-0800.