Social Work

Social Work

JUST IN - The Malone College Social Work Program has received full reaffirmation by our accrediting organization, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Thank you to all who have had an integral part in making our program one of excellence!


On Any Given Day, Social Workers Help

 
Faculty:   Jane Hoyt-Oliver, Ph.D., LISW, ACSW                            
                        Social Work Department Chair                                       
             
                  Ken Stoltzfus, LISW, LICDC                             
                  Director of Social Work Field Education             
 
                  Elizabeth Patterson LSW, MSW
                  Assistant Professor of Social Work
 
Generalist social work empowers individuals, families, groups and communities to protect, promote, enhance and create relationships that foster the profession’s six core values: competency, service, caring relationships, personal uniqueness and worth, social justice and integrity towards the goals of fostering people’s well-being and freedom of choice. (Definition adapted from: Hoffman & Sallee 1994; Reamer 1982.) Social Work is a people-oriented helping profession dedicated to maximizing coping and minimizing suffering.
 
Since 1984, the State of Ohio requires that persons who provide social work services must be licensed. In order to take the test for Licensed Social Worker, one must have a bachelor’s degree in social work from a CSWE accredited program. The Malone College social work major meets all state licensing requirements including the completion of all accreditation requirements by the Council on Social Work Education (baccalaureate level).

Upon graduation, students are employable in a wide range of fields of practice. They are well-prepared to enter into graduate education and, because the program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education, graduates are often placed in advance standing when applying to graduate school.

Social Work Major 
A major consists of 41 hours including SWK 222, 242, 311, 312, 345, 346, 372, 401, 440, and 460.  An additional 36 hours of social work support courses include BIOL 273; HIST 111, 212; POL 201; PSYC 121, 140, 220; SOC 310; and an upper-level language course: ENG 322, 381, 390, 395 or any Spanish course at the 200 level or higher.  (The Chair of the Social Work Department may approve the substitution of other courses to meet the upper level language course requirement.)  Students are also required to complete two Spanish or American Sign Language courses.  (Both courses must be in the same language.)
 
To be eligible to enter the major, students must complete an application packet, be interviewed by a facultymember and given permission to continue in the major. The application process is completed by a second interview and review of a student’s application as outlined in the Social Work Program Handbook. Students must maintain a 2.5 major GPA. To remain in the program, students must abide by the NASW Code of Ethics and by program policies as outlined within the Social Work Program Handbook.
 
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