The School of Social Welfare of the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, was established June 1, 1944 and is located in Haviland Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Its focus is to prepare graduates to become agents of social change through direct practice, agency management, policymaking, and leading new discoveries that address the grand challenges confronting society. Berkeley Social Welfare offers the Bachelor of Arts in
Social Welfare
Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet Basic needs, basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refe ...
through the
College of Letters and Science (L&S), the
M.S.W.
The Master of Social Work (MSW) is a master's degree in the field of social work. It is a professional degree with specializations compared to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). MSW promotes macro-, mezzo- and micro-aspects of professional social wor ...
, and the
Ph.D
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. Haviland Hall includes its own library, The Social Research Library, which was founded in 1957 and contains approximately 34,400 volumes and 200 active serial titles. The library originally housed volumes specifically for the social work field and expanded in 2014 to include education, psychology, public policy. The library also maintains an Indigenous Social Work space.
Social welfare as a field of study was originally located in the Economics Department and was called "social economics". Professor
Jessica Blanche Peixotto
Jessica Blanche Peixotto (9 October 1864 in New York City – 19 October 1941) was a Jewish-American educator and writer.
Early life and family
Jessica Blanche Peixotto was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Raphael Levy Madur ...
, the second woman to earn at Ph.D. at Berkeley, was hired in 1904 to teach courses in sociology and by 1912 had shaped a curriculum in social economics focused on the poor. Professor Peixotto became the first woman at Berkeley to achieve tenured faculty status in 1918. Along with her colleagues,
Lucy Ward Stebbins
Lucy Ward Stebbins (1880January 31, 1955) was the Dean of Women at University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Lucy Ward Stebbins was born in San Francisco in 1880. She was the daughter of Horatio Stebbins, pastor of the First Unitarian Chur ...
and Emily Noble Plehn, they developed a graduate-level curriculum in social work that same year. By 1927 these courses led to certificates in child and family services and in medical social work. An independent Department of Social Welfare was established in 1939 and the certificates were replaced with a professional Master of Arts degree in 1942. Professor Harry Cassidy, the Public Welfare Director for British Columbia became the first Dean of the new School of Social Welfare in 1944. He insisted the program be called "social welfare" to encompass more than social work.
Students
Undergraduates majoring in social welfare are enrolled in the College of Letters and Science (L&S), while the upper-division major is administered by the School of Social Welfare. Social welfare is an undergraduate major in L&S.
There are approximately 27 doctoral and 197 master's students in the School.
At the graduate level, Berkeley Social Welfare offers: a full-time, two year M.S.W. program; a part-time, three year M.S.W. program; a part-time, advanced standing, one year M.S.W. program; a concurrent, three year M.S.W./
M.P.H. program; a concurrent, three year M.S.W./
M.P.P. program; a concurrent, four year M.S.W/
J.D. program; a combined M.S.W./Ph.D. program, and a Ph.D. program. Standalone and concurrent degree M.S.W. students must participate in mandatory field education, throughout their course of study, which requires them to complete a set amount of internship hours at agencies related to their career goals.
The School of Social Welfare maintains 12 research units:
* The California Child Welfare Indicators Project
* The California Social Work Education Center
* The Digital Health & Access Equity Lab
* Risk Resilience Researc
* The Guizhou Berkeley Big Data Innovation Research Center
* The Sexual Health & Reproductive Equity Program
* The Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services
* The Center for Comparative Family Welfare and Poverty Research
* The Center for Prevention Research in Social Welfare
* The Mack Center on Nonprofit & Public Sector Management
* The Mack Center on Mental Health & Social Conflict
* The Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group
References
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