Principles

The Department is dedicated to cultivating social workers, prioritizing people, and is convinced of the value found in health and justice.

We attach importance to an all-round development and advocate the health of individuals and the society as a whole for doing away with oppression and inequality, as well as for promoting social justice and harmony.

We thus hope to make our contribution to social work education, and to those pursuing a major in social work, and even to society as a whole through our teaching, research, and social work. In teaching, we provide complete and diverse courses, emphasizing the interaction between teachers and students in order to stimulate the students' potentials and establish the students' commitment to the social work. With the social work major, we provide a blend of service and practice in supervision designed to promote the development of the major, with consulting, research aimed to advance theory, and practical mutual support. Finally, in society, we focus on social practices and advocate the promotion of policies that will ameliorate social problems and foster benign social transitions.

In the undergraduate program, we have adopted an integrative teaching method to help students develop from a social career into a professional helper, while in the graduate institute, we adopt more specialized training so that our masters candidates grow into supervisors and researchers. In addition to classroom teaching, we provide opportunities to actually practice social work in order to help our students become competent social workers.