
 
The School of Social Welfare is committed to a more just society based 
on equality, human dignity and social justice. We believe that 
inequality and injustices are deeply embedded in society's political and
 economic structures and ideologies. Oppression objectively and 
subjectively permeates the lives of people, resulting in the denial of 
human dignity, individual and cultural diversity, and social and 
economic justice. Oppression is manifest in discrimination on the basis 
of class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age and
 disability, among others. Our purpose is to prepare students for work 
in professional social work practice in the public and non-profit 
sectors of health and social welfare. The School's educational process 
enables people to identify and analyze the nature and extent of 
oppression and engage in social work practice that affirms people's 
strengths as a means to create social change in their lives and in 
society. The school stresses a commitment to the values of human and 
cultural diversity, human dignity, social and economic justice, and 
individual and group self-determination.