Mindeo MP725 - Program Goals; Program Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)

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•Interdisciplinary Cooperation—encouraging active involvement with other academic units
and professional disciplines in order to address quality of life concerns.
All course work throughout the program is built on and infused with these themes.
Program Goals
The mission and themes suggest seven goals of the Collaborative MSW Program. The Program
is designed to:
1. Prepare advanced degree social workers to assume administrative leadership and direct
practice leadership roles in public and tribal sector practice within an increasingly diverse
and transforming rural environment.
2. Promote and provide regional professional development activities that support advanced
practice learning, including commensurate use of Internet and distance education modes
of course delivery.
3. Through research, evaluation of practice and program evaluation, contribute to the
development of professional knowledge aimed toward the strengthening of family
functioning and the enhancement of community and agency supports for users of social
work services.
4. Undertake activities inside and outside the classroom that will contribute to the
development and improvement of social policy at local, regional, state, and national
levels as it pertains to families or other users of public, tribal, and other culturally
relevant social services.
5. Develop and utilize collaborative partnerships with other academic units and degree
programs in the UW System or elsewhere and with other organizational entities in the
Northeastern region.
6. Provide active leadership in the social work profession and engage in public service
activities within the Northeast region, actively encouraging democratic community
decision-making in order to favorably influence quality of life concerns.
7. Through teaching, research, evaluation, policy development and advocacy activities
inside and outside the classroom, actively confront oppression in the community,
especially as it affects individuals and families using public social services.
Program Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)
The Collaborative MSW Program is a competency-based program and as such, the competencies
serve as educational outcomes in the preparation of master’s prepared social workers. While
competencies or student outcomes relate to the goals of the Collaborative MSW Program, there