Brittney Turner, DSW, LCSW, Program Director
Pending approval - The University of Olivet is currently seeking accreditation with the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). For updates on the university’s accreditation status, please see the CSWE Accreditation Directory.
The Bachelor of Social Work is designed to provide students with skills that will prepare social work students to key social work ideas, values, concepts, and skills, including the code of ethics, grand challenges, and diversity and social justice aspects. This includes assessment of the intersectionality of the person and their environment as related to age, race, ethnicity, disadvantage, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, class, socioeconomic status, immigration status, ability, family status, geographic location, ethnicity and culture.
The primary mission of the BSW program is to enhance human well-being and help meet basic and complex needs of all people, with a particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living impoverished.
The BSW program prepares undergraduate students for ethical, competent, entry-level, and generalist professional practice with diverse persons and communities. Students will be assessed based upon the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) competencies, as well as The University of Olivet learning outcomes.
See Residential Undergraduate Program Admissions, Transfer & Financial Information for more information regarding the social work online baccalaureate degree completion program requirements.
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