Program Learning Outcomes    

 The program goal is to lay a strong academic foundation for achieving the transformation from micro social work to macro social work practice in Palestine; by shifting the focus of social work practice from clinical treatment to community-based practice and mobilizing the resources and policy needed to achieve this goal.  This core goal corresponds with the needs assessment study which was devised by the advisory committee and which aimed at identifying the needs of the developing social work profession in Palestine.

The MSW program was designed to focus on enhancing community development and leadership efforts as well as organizational capacity building of the Palestinian social service agencies. This goal can only be achieved by empowering social workers with the educational tools, knowledge, values and skills, which meet to the Palestinian community’s growing needs.  This goal can only be achieved by empowering social workers with the educational tools, knowledge, values and skills, which meet the Palestinian community’s growing needs.

 Detailed Learning Outcomes

The graduates of the MSW program also demonstrate the following abilities to meet the program’s objectives

• Graduates are able to apply the knowledge, skills, and values of advanced social work practice with groups, organizational and community contexts of their practice settings.

• Graduates are able to critically select, appraise, and apply appropriate evidence based and practice derived knowledge to their advanced social work practice with groups, organizations, and communities.

• Graduates are able to enhance their practice effectiveness through systematic evaluation of their interventions and application of evidence-based and practice-derived knowledge.

• Graduates are able to initiate, design and implement advanced practice interventions with groups, organizations, and communities.

• Graduates are able to bring organizational efforts directed at helping poor and other powerless groups remove the sources of their oppression, such as people directly or indirectly affected by the occupations and war in Palestine.

• Graduates are able to initiate and promote new social institutions such as, self-help groups, mutual aid societies, community welfare centers, and seed banks.

• Graduates are able to initiate reform of existing institutions to make them more responsive to the needs of those whom the institutions were designed for.

• Graduates are able to generate efforts that seek to accelerate the pace of development in local communities, villages, cities, that ultimately enhance and empower the entire Palestinian society.

• Graduates are able to identify needs and interventions suitable for transitional communities, marginalized/ disadvantaged communities and groups, and communities in disasters.

• Graduates are capable to promote practices that advances social justice, through their own work and that of the larger social work profession.

• Graduates are capable to analyze socio-political factors that shape policy and services formation in their area of practice and influence existing policies and services.

• Graduates are able to utilize their acquired knowledge and skills to organize and empower communities to improve their situation