Mission of the B.Swsa Programme

The mission of the B.SWSA Programme is to produce Social Work Practitioners who are both development oriented and thoroughly grounded in theories and skills of social work practice,relevant to local and international standards within this mission, our vision is that the Department of Social Work and Social Administration should be an Institution of excellence with a capacity of producing social service planners and service delivery personnel for a wide ranfe of social development programmme

Objectives of the B.SWSA Degree Curriculum 

The Objective of the B.SWSA curriculum is to enable participating Students to acquire two broad categories of professional competencies that the emerging practice situation in this country calls for.

These competencies consist of the knowledge and skills required for practice at the macro and micro levels of society, both in service delivery settings as well as in the industrial sector as detailed below

• Objectives relating to Practice competencies at Macro Levels. By the end of the B.SWSA training, the graduating students should possess the technical competencies that a Social Work practitioner requires in order to be in a position to enable communities, their constituent groups,individual levels and leadership, to acquire capacities for self-help,which involves imparting to them skills in resource identification,resource mobilization and resource management; Skills in the development and management of problem solving projects and skills in leadership and organization which skills are needed for both managing normal social situations and for dealing with disasters.
  
  Social work students should also be able to study societal problems and lobby for policies and social programs to address these problems
   
• Objective relating to Practive Competencies at Micro Levels By the end of the B.SWSA training , the graduating student should possess profesional competence to perform the following general tasks:
  
  1. Linking people to needed services available;
  2. Mediating conflicts at individual family, community levels
  3. Providing technical information to client systems for problem solving
  4. Promoting advocacy services for the disadvantaged
  5. Enabling Individuals and families to resolve or cope with the psycho-social problems they have internalized from their stressful circumstances 
  6. To offer counseling Services to individuals and families faced with interpersonal and intra-personal problems

Online Resources 

Follow the link(s) provided below for information about the course including course units 

https://courses.mak.ac.ug/programmes/bachelor-social-work-and-social-admnistration