School of Social Work: General Information
2008-2009 Academic Year
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Mailing Address:
School of Social Work
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
Phone: (504) 865-5314
http://www.tulane.edu/%7Etssw/New_TSSW/index.html
Dean: Ronald Marks
TULANE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Tulane MSW Program is to educate future social workers to:
a. engage in dynamic clinical-community practice that is relationship
centered, evidence informed, and empowerment focused
b. enhance biopsychosocial capacity and resilience of individuals, families,
groups, and communities, with particular attention to the impact of social
injustice and oppression
c. create and exchange responsive, community-based knowledge and
research for relevant, contemporary, and innovative social work practice
The Southern School of Social Science and Public Services was the first training
program for social workers in the Deep South. Under the sponsorship of the
Kingsley Settlement house, a group of Tulane social science faculty offered the
first classes in social welfare in 1914. Sponsored by grants from the American
Red Cross, a formal one-year program was implemented in 1921. By 1927, with
funding from a Rockefeller grant, the school became a separate program with a
two-year curriculum qualifying students for the Master of Arts. In 1935, the
university established the degree of Master of Social Work. The School has since
awarded the Master's degree to more than 5,000 students from all 50 of the
United States and from over 40 countries.
The School currently offers the Master of Social Work, a 60 credit (4 semesters
full time and 8 semesters part time) program leading to the MSW. Working with
the Undergraduate College, the school offers an interdisciplinary major and minor
in "Social Policy and Practice" within the School of Liberal Arts. This new
program is based on a social justice model.