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About Social Work

What is Service Learning?

Image of students gardeningThe idea of "service learning" has been at the core of Taylor's social work department. By integrating this concept of learning by experience into the curriculum, students see themselves as contributing to the community in more significant ways at each level of the program.

The social work program initiates students into this system of learning in their first introductory course, Explorations in Social Work, and builds on this concept with electives and a senior-level practice methods course.

History

Taylor became an affiliate member of the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE) in the 1970s. The first students to earn social work degrees from Taylor graduated in 1971. The curriculum was revised in 1976 to reflect the CSWE requirements for baccalaureate social work programs.

By 1977, students could graduate with BA or BS degrees in social work. The CSWE granted initial accreditation status to the program in 1980, and reaffirmed accreditation in 1988, 1994 and 2003. Although the social work program was formerly part of the sociology department, it now functions as a separate department within the School of Graduate and Professional Studies.