Overview
The Department of Social Work at GEMS Arts and Science College offers a Postgraduate programme in Master of Social Work (MSW), which was established in the year 2015. The programme is committed to developing professionally competent and socially responsible social work practitioners. With a strong focus on academic excellence, skill acquisition, and value-based learning, the MSW curriculum integrates classroom teaching with intensive fieldwork, observation visits, rural camps, and internships. The Department also offers a Certificate Course in Counselling in collaboration with the Indian Counselors’ Association, Kerala. It actively engages in research projects, community interventions, consultancy services, and extension activities. Seminars, workshops, and training sessions are regularly organised to cater to the evolving needs of society and enhance student competencies. Learning through service remains a core principle of the MSW programme, ensuring students are well-prepared to contribute meaningfully to the social work profession.
MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK (MSW)
As the society today becomes more and more complex in its working, the prime slogan of the present world is the survival of the fittest. This has increased the number of helpless, deprived and disadvantaged and here lies the relevance of social work as a profession. Social work utilizes resources to sort out the problems of such marginalized people and try to alleviate their pain and sufferings. There are ample job opportunities for MSW degree holders in both Government as well as non-governmental sectors. This course has great job potential in the modern context as it involves experiential knowledge through regular field work which is the hallmark of modern knowledge accusation. Department offers three specializations, namely Community Development, Medical and Psychiatric Social Work and Family and Child Welfare. Specialization specific field work and other activities are conducted regularly by the department. Dissertation and field work are done in appropriate agencies both in the state and outside the state. All these activities are focussed on developing social work skills and attitudes.
