Department of Social Work

Department of Social Work

Social work is a human service and practice profession, which relates to a wide and complex range of human situations, calling for a versatile practice perspective and skill-based competencies. The social work profession broadly works for equity. Social justice, harmony and peace, mainly directing its activities to support the quest of the marginalized groups to meet their needs. In the current expanding scenario of poverty, globalization and liberalization, the curriculum of social work is basically humanistic, reconstructionist, and academic.

Master of Social Work post graduates have ample opportunities of job potentialities in human service professions and in Social welfare and development sectors. Such jobs include in the areas of Health and Mental health, women and child welfare, correctional institutions, welfare of the disabled, poverty alleviation projects, in rural and urban sectors, family counselling, HIV/AIDS control projects, child labour and street children projects, Personnel and labor welfare officers in industries, and in other national and international funded organizations viz., CSWB, APMAS, DFID, Care, ALLIANCE, UNICEF, CRY, USAID, ACTION AID, CASA, PLAN, WORLD BANK, CCF and SCF etc.

Department of Social Work
Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (University for Women),
Tirupati
Andhra Pradesh
India

Other Departments at Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (University for Women), Tirupati

• Department of Applied Mathematics
• Department of Applied Microbiology
• Department of Biochemistry
• Department of Bioinformatics
• Department of Biotechnology
• Department of Botany
• Department of Business Management
• Department of Communication and Journalism
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Education
• Department of Engineering and Technology
• Department of English Language and Literature
• Department of Home Science
• Department of Law
• Department of Music
• Department of Organic Chemistry
• Department of Physical Education
• Department of Physics
• Department of Sericulture
• Department of Social Work
• Department of Telugu Language, Literature and Translation
• Department of Women’s Studies
• Department of Zoology
• Institute Of Pharmaceutical Technology