Social Work (B.A.)
Program Transfer Guide
Hood College
Effective
Fall, 2025 - Current
Instruction Methods
In person
About the Program
About this Program
Social workers strive to address human problems. Social work involves collaboration with individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations or communities to enhance their social functioning, resolve problems and to create conditions conducive to those goals. Social workers address institutional, governmental and organizational policies, laws and regulations in an effort to create services that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable people and populations.
Program Overview
Program's Mission:
Hood College’s Social Work Program is committed to preparing students for ethical generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and larger systems consistent with Hood College’s motto Corde et Mente et Manu (Heart and Mind and Hand):
Students connect with their hearts deepening respect for diversity and the pursuit of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. They understand the intersections of human dignity and universal rights in numerous contexts, locally and globally.
Students develop competence for helping people in need, using their minds to deepen their knowledge of the person-in-environment perspective learning evidence-based methods for assessment and intervention across settings.
Students use their hands to demonstrate the importance of human relationships through experiential learning, integrating inclusive practice methods, and promoting holistic well-being and quality of life for systems of all sizes.
Program's Goal: The social work program prepares students for competency at an entry-level of professional practice in social work. Graduates promote the well-being and quality of life for diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities, both locally and globally, with particular appreciation for the distinct strengths and differences of each client system.
To this end, our program is committed to facilitating a generalist education focused on experiential learning, grounded in a strong liberal arts foundation. The curriculum is integrated with the knowledge, evidence-based methods, skills, values and ethics of the social work profession based on a holistic, hands-on perspective and committed to universal human rights and social justice.
Program Structure: The social work program is a part of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, which is located in the Ruth Whitaker Holmes School of Behavioral Sciences. All academic departments at Hood College report to the Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost. The College's organizational chart is linked here.
Program Structure: The social work program is a part of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, which is located in the Ruth Whitaker Holmes School of Behavioral Sciences. All academic departments at Hood College report to the Vice President for Academic Affairs/Provost. The College's organizational chart is linked here.
Emphasis on Competency with Older Adults: The social work field experience prepares students for practice with diverse client groups across the lifespan. Because of the growing number of older adults who will need social services in the 21st century, Hood College social work students graduate with basic competencies needed to practice with populations of all ages, regardless of the social work field of practice in which they plan to work.
Accreditation: Hood College is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Board of Accreditation (BOA).
- Accreditation of a baccalaureate or master’s social work program by the BOA indicates that it meets or exceeds standards of program quality evaluated through a peer review accreditation process. An accredited program has sufficient resources to meet its mission and goals and the BOA has verified that it demonstrates compliance with all sections of the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). Accreditation applies to all program options, which includes locations and delivery methods.
- Accreditation provides reasonable assurance about the quality of the program and the competence of students graduating from the program. Review our program’s accredited status in CSWE’s Directory of Accredited Programs.
- Hood meets the accreditation requirements for courses that cover themes like race, inequality and diversity.
- 2025 Assessment of Learning Outcomes (2022 EPAS)
- Social Work Major Courses
- Student Handbook and Field Manual (2024-2025)
Important note: Hood College is transitioning to new core requirements and Program Transfer Guides are unavailable at this time. In the meantime, please visit Social Work (B.A.) to review more information about the major. If you would like to map out your major, follow this link: Major Maps. If you would like to see single-course equivalencies, you can do so here.