Master of Social Work

Our Mission Statement

The mission of the Master of Social Work Program at Wingate University is to develop exemplary difference makers who have the professional knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes needed to practice transformative social work in the beloved community.

Transformative Social Work in the Beloved Community

Transformative social work is an innovative approach in which students learn how to weave together the micro, mezzo, and macro levels and utilize the person-in-environment framework in promoting human and community well-being. Wingate’s transformative social work approach is grounded in the beloved community, defined as a place with no room for racism or other forms of marginalization based on any status, where all people are cared for, and where peace transcends international borders. Transformative social work in the beloved community thus prepares social workers who are committed to the professional values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the human being, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence, human rights, and scientific inquiry locally and globally. 

Accreditation

The Wingate University MSW Program is currently in pre-candidacy for accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Board of Accreditation (BOA).

Pre-candidacy for a baccalaureate or master’s social work program by the BOA indicates that it submitted an application to be reviewed for candidacy and received approval of its Benchmark 1 from CSWE accreditation staff to move forward for a candidacy review within 1-year. A program that has attained pre-candidacy status has not yet been reviewed by the BOA nor verified to be compliant with the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS).

Students that are admitted to pre-candidate programs in the fall (or later) of the academic year in which the program is granted candidacy status will be retroactively recognized as graduates from a CSWE-BOA accredited program as long as the program attains initial accreditation. Candidacy is typically a 3-year process and attaining pre-candidacy does not guarantee that a program will eventually attain candidacy and initial accreditation.

Pre-candidacy 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 pre-candidacy status in CSWE’s Directory of Accredited Programs. For more information about social work accreditation, contact CSWE’s Department of Social Work Accreditation.