PROGRAMS DETAILS

Program Name: Bachelor of Social Work Practice and Development
School: School of Humanities
Course Duration: 48 months / 4 Years (8 Semesters)
Tution fee K64,000.00 (K8,000.00 per semester) - E-learning / Distance Edu.
Exam fee K200.00 (Per Semester)
Registration Fee K500.00 (Per Semester)
Enrollment Dates Now Enrolling
Program Requirements Grade 12 Certificate with atleast 5 credits

Program Description


Introduction: Social work and Development Studies is the process or effort of increasing the positive outcomes within a community by linking individuals and organizations working toward common ends. The people who are marginalized or living in poverty work together to identify their needs, create change,excert more influence on decisions which they live, and the society of which they are part. COURSE OBJECTIVES: The ultimate goal of this program is to impart knowledge, skills,values and attitudes as well as provide global view of social change development and responding to the social, political and economic needs of the society as identified by our environment as well as enable students to face the challenges of the 21 Century. It also underlines the importance of offering learners the opportunity to work together on the joint projects, tasks and development more complex effectiveness and competence in poverty eradication efforts. CAREER PROSPECTS FOR GRADUATES: The Social Work Practice & Development degree and Diploma prepare learners for diverse employment environments including the government, private and non-government. These may include international organizations dealing in development-based interventions like Red Cross, World Vision, Oxfam, Care International, as well as a variety of United Nations, IMF, World Bank and This other bigger Institutions. Locally the learners can be absorbed in Local Governments as Community Development officers, Social Workers, on government administrators and program managers not to mention the hundreds of NGOs operating in the country and the region.

Program Outline (0 Points)

YEAR Semester Course Outline
YEAR 1 1
Management Information Systems 1
Business Communication/Communication Skills
Introduction to Microeconomics

Sociology
Community-Based Monitoring System
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YEAR 1 2
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Community-Based Monitoring System
Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
Organizational Behavior
Research Methodology
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YEAR 2 3
Social Work Practice Methods
Rural Sociology
Entrepreneurship
Financial Accounting
Human Resource Management
YEAR Semester Course Outline
YEAR 2 4
Urban Sociology
Development Economics
Project Planning and Management 1
Social Psychology
Social Work Law
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YEAR 3 5
Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Social Welfare Theory and Social Policy Analysis
Disaster Management
Human Rights and Development
Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation 1
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YEAR 3 6
Conflict Management
Analysis of Social Work Intervention
Counseling Skills
Families in a Changing World
Principles of Management
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YEAR 4 7
Social Planning and Administration
Final Year Project
Social Work Disability and Mental Health
Field Work 1 - Rural Placement
Gender and Development
YEAR Semester Course Outline
YEAR 4 8
Leadership
Research for Social Sciences
Community Health Education and Development
Field Work 2 -Social Service Administration and Evaluative Research Project
E-Paradigm and Digital Culture