Transformative Social Work: Profound. Generative. Relational.

UVM's nationally recognized Master of Social Work program prepares students for specialized practice in transformative social work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in the post-modern environment. Under a conceptual framework of critical social construction, our curriculum emphasizes strengths-oriented, relational practice through a critcal, anti-oppressive lens guided by principles of social justice and human rights.

While social work education at UVM prepares students for the multiple role demands and organizational settings, our MSW program also prepares students with a mindfulness of the global influences on the profession and the dissonance that competing demands among these influences create for social workers. These demands include issues of social justice, human diversity, and the uneven protection and distribution of rights and access to resources and opportunities.

Our students learn to become reflective, conscientious lifelong learners and professionals whose practice reflects the most humane and empowering knowledge, skills and values of social work.