Master in Social Work (MSW)

Online Applications are invited from 20th March to 19th April, 2023 for admission in Master of Social Work (MSW) with specialization in Child Protection & Rights and Women Studies (02 years) (Total Seats: 20)

Master in Social Work (MSW) programme is an innovative learning package aimed at creating an overall awareness and opportunity to learners for higher studies in professional social work. Besides offering the core courses pertaining to social work curriculum, it includes themes in some of the emerging areas of social work such as Child rights, Child Protection, Working with Children, Legal Provisions and Child Protection, Introduction to Family Education, Gender & Intersectionalities, Introduction to Women’s Studies, Sexuality, Power and Violence, State, Women’s Rights and Legal Advocacy, Women, Work & Well Being and Women’s Movements and various laws available to deal with. After going through this Programme the learners will be able to deal with the issues related with women & children effectively. The curriculum focuses on the applied aspects of Social Work and specially focused on Women’s Studies and Child Protection & Rights. In preparing the course material, special care has been taken to address the present day context.
Objective of the course
The salient features of this programme are as follows:
• To meet the growing demand for professionally trained social workers across the country.
• To provide social work education and training based on indigenous knowledge and uniform curriculum across the country.
• To help the learner acquire professional skills and knowledge to help the clients to deal with their emotional and psychological problems.
• To help the learner acquire professional skills and develop capacity in helping people to solve various social and economic problems.
• To help the learner to develop required attitudes in understanding people’s problem solving interventions.
• To provide learners with the core knowledge required for child protection and child rights.
• To acquaint learners with the use of healthy and positive behaviour with the children.

• To provide hands-on training in selected areas of child rights and child protection, and
• To equip learners with the skills of using appropriate knowledge of different child protection laws for applications in various fields.
• To understand what child protection is and why it is important.
• To understand the purpose of a child protection policy and related procedures.
• To provide an understanding of how knowledge has been produced and constructed to reproduce power and hierarchy and gender based inequalities.
• To provide sound grounding in women’s movements and critically explores the concerns of gender, development and globalizing economies.
• To build skills in feminist research, documentation and organizational skills needed to work with women.
Eligibility: Graduation with 55% marks (5% relaxation for SC/ST/PH).
Medium of Instruction: Bilingual.
Duration: 24 months/ Max. Duration: 72 Months.
• The students will be provided with the facility of library, study material will be provided in the form of handouts/compendiums. Field Practice and assignments will be part of the course.

• Entrance Examination will be held for this course through CUCET.
• Admission will be on merit basis.

Link for admission portal:
https://cucet.nta.nic.in/
https://www.policeuniversity.ac.in/admision.php