MSW stands for Masters in Social Work. Masters in Social Work can be abbreviated to MSocWk or MSocWork or MSW. Master of Social Work is a technical postgraduate course, that incorporates both macro and micro aspects of professional social work practices in communities, hospitals, schools, and other fields of social services. MSW course duration in India is of 2 years divided into four semesters.
Candidates can pursue MSW Courses after completing graduation in relevant streams, with at least 50% marks from a recognized university. MSW ADMISSION is done either on the basis of a merit list or an entrance exam. Eligibility for a Master of Social Work is that students must complete graduation in a relevant field.
MSW is a social science course that is aimed at teaching students to utilize resources to eradicate the problems of society and try to alleviate their suffering through counseling, funds, or different social methods. The course provides specialized knowledge about various subjects related to social work such as Labour Welfare, Human Resource Development & Management, Rural Reconstruction, Child Rights & Child Protection, Community Development, and much more. However, with only a 12.5% female workforce, there has been a gender gap in the field of social work in India.
The main purpose of presenting the Masters in Social Work program in India is to enable social work practitioners to develop sensitivity, cultivate rights-based perspective, values, and ethics, learn research skills, and build skills and competencies required for effective social work intervention in society in different sectors, ranging from child welfare to sociology.
| Course Name | Course Description |
|---|---|
| Social Science Concepts for Social Work | This subject deal with social worker's role in identifying social issues and developing appropriate strategies. |
| Community Work | Community work focuses on participation and promotes empowerment, liberation, and change through collective action. |
| History and Philosophy of Social Work | The philosophical underpinnings of social work can be instrumental in examining the ultimate realities of social work concepts, principles, and values. |
| Field Work | This course helps students to do practical social in social environment. |
| Indian Social Problems | It deals with the social problems that exist in India and its solutions. |
| Human Resource & Quality of Life | This course describes about numerous human resources required to maintainj the quality of life. |
| Course Name | Course Description |
|---|---|
| Social Work Research | This subject deals with critical research required for social work |
| Field Work | This course helps students to do practical social activities in social environment. |
| Rural Camp | Rural Camps are organised by the university to help students determine the conditions of various social environment |
| Social Action and Social Movements | This subjects introduces the students with all legendary social actions and social movements conducted by historians to gain social achievement. |
| Social Science Concepts for Social Work | Social Science Concepts for Social work helps students to lean various social concepts used in history for social work |
| Social Policy & Social Legislation | This subjects deals with legal aspects of social environment. |
| Course Name | Course Description |
|---|---|
| Environment and Disaster Management | Disaster management refers to the management or conservation of lives and property that occurs during natural or human-made disasters. |
| Development Theory and Practice | It introduces students to the development theory, a body of research and theory on economic and political development. Developmental theory refers to the study and writing of results from research efforts |
| Poverty and Livelihood | This subject examines the livelihoods, poverty and lives of the poor, and how inequality is related in different ways to climate change, climate change and extreme events. It looks at current climate change impacts, proposed impacts through 2100, and how climate change responses affect lives and poverty. |
| Psychology for Social Work | This subjects deals with psychological aspects of social environment. |
| Field Work | This subject helps students to do practical social activities in social environment. |
| Social Development in India | This subject helps students to learn efforts of Inidan government to establish extensive social welfare system. |
| Course Name | Course Description |
|---|---|
| Marginalised Communities: Issues and Challenges | It helps to throw a light on issues faced by marginalised community in India such as poverty and malnutrition, limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and discrimination and a lack of participation in decision-making. |
| Urban and Rural Community Development | This subjects highlights differents sections in which Indian society is divided |
| Social Welfare Management | This subjects aims to make students understan different aspectsc of social welfare managment |
| Dissertation | A thesis or dissertation is a lengthy academic text based on original research, submitted as part of an undergraduate or graduate degree. |
| Human Development | This subjectcs aims to throw a light on the process that includes expanding people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their happiness. |
| Development and Welfare Services | Social welfare is an integrated and comprehensive system of social services, institutions, programs and community safety that promotes social development, social justice and social activism. |
| Core Subjects | Elective Subjects |
|---|---|
| Rehabilitation and Resettlement | Medical Social Work |
| Corporate Social Responsibility | Social Work Administration |
| Social Work Research and Quantitative Analysis | Children, Families, and Couples |
| History of Social Work | Disaster, Crisis, and Intervention |
| - | Forensic Populations and Settings |
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