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Department
Sociology and Social Work
Campus
Guwahati Campus
Semester
02 Years (4 Semesters)
Degree
MSW

MSW programme offers a deeper understanding of theoretical approaches in social work, models and interventions. Students shall specialize in any core area of social work practice in the second year of the course. Field placements shall also be chosen according to their specialization. Research is a crucial activity in the MSW course and advanced research methodology workshops shall be organized. Students graduating from the Masters Programme are capacitated with requisite knowledge and skills essential for social work practice as well as continue their research through the PhD programmes.

Field Practicum

Field work is an integral and indispensable component of the social work programme. The following are the field components incorporated both in BSW and MSW programmes:

  • Observation field visits
  • Concurrent Field Work Practicum
  • Rural Camp and Study Tour
  • Block Placement

Specializations offered in MSW: Community Development/Medical and Psychiatry/Family and Child Welfare.

Eligibility

Candidates with a Bachelors’ Degree from any recognized Indian/Foreign university.

Career opportunities

An education in social work offers wide scope of career options for graduating students such as:

  1. Academics / Research
  2. Advocacy and Policy making bodies
  3. Children’s Organizations/ Child Guidance Clinics
  4. Community Settings
  5. Correctional Settings
  6. Developmental Sectors
  7. Disability Sectors
  8. Educational Settings
  9. Entrepreneur
  10. Environment and Disaster settings
  11. Gerontology Settings
  12. Industrial Settings
  13. Medical/Health Settings
  14. Psychiatric Settings
  15. Rehabilitation Centres
  16. Social Welfare/Urban Welfare, Rural Welfare, Tribal Welfare etc. (Government Departments)
  17. UN Agencies

MSW programme offers a deeper understanding of theoretical approaches in social work, models and interventions. Students shall specialize in any core area of social work practice in the second year of the course. Field placements shall also be chosen according to their specialization. Research is a crucial activity in the MSW course and advanced research methodology workshops shall be organized. Students graduating from the Masters Programme are capacitated with requisite knowledge and skills essential for social work practice as well as continue their research through the PhD programmes.

Field Practicum

Field work is an integral and indispensable component of the social work programme. The following are the field components incorporated both in BSW and MSW programmes:

  • Observation field visits
  • Concurrent Field Work Practicum
  • Rural Camp and Study Tour
  • Block Placement

Specializations offered in MSW: Community Development/Medical and Psychiatry/Family and Child Welfare.

Eligibility

Candidates with a Bachelors’ Degree from any recognized Indian/Foreign university.

Career opportunities

An education in social work offers wide scope of career options for graduating students such as:

    1. Academics / Research
    2. Advocacy and Policy making bodies
    3. Children’s Organizations/ Child Guidance Clinics
    4. Community Settings
    5. Correctional Settings
    6. Developmental Sectors
    7. Disability Sectors
    8. Educational Settings
    9. Entrepreneur
    10. Environment and Disaster settings
    11. Gerontology Settings
    12. Industrial Settings
    13. Medical/Health Settings
    14. Psychiatric Settings
    15. Rehabilitation Centres
    16. Social Welfare/Urban Welfare, Rural Welfare, Tribal Welfare etc. (Government Departments)
    17. UN Agencies
Department
Sociology and Social Work
Campus
Guwahati Campus
Semester
02 Years (4 Semesters)
Degree
MSW

The Master of Social Work is a programme that creates professional social workers out of passionate scholars and students who choose to specifically pursue the many opportunites across multiple fields of social services

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