WHY WE'RE UNIQUE
Concentration Curriculum
Family Practice Concentration: As a growing number of family-related challenges face society, there is an ever-increasing need for highly trained professionals. In this clinical concentration, students focus on promoting empowerment of the family-nurturing systems from a developmental and holistic perspective.
Program Development, Policy, and Administration (PDPA): This concentration was developed in response to the growing demand for leadership and administration. Students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and achieve needed change and to develop, lead, guide, and administer programs that serve diverse people in a variety of settings.
Dual Degree in Social Work and Theology/Divinity
Students can prepare to serve both the spiritual and social needs of individuals, families, and communities in both urban and rural settings through the dual degree program between Augsburg College and Luther Seminary in St. Paul. Both institutions have a commitment to social and economic justice and to teamwork in pastoral and human service settings.
Short-Term Travel Seminars and International Partnerships
Courses that fulfill the elective credit are offered through an institutional agreement with the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia every third year. Students may complete a 10-day course in Slovenia through the program. Students also have an option to complete an elective course in China and Hong Kong. The course includes visits to the cities of Beijing, Zhuhai and Hong Kong. Students will visit social service, educational, and community development organizations in the cities as well as sites of historical and cultural interest.
The Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education
The Augsburg College Department of Social Work, in consortium with the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, is a recipient of the Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education (HPPAE). Grant money will be given to MSW students via scholarships. The HPPAE is a national, competitive grant aimed at building a skilled MSW work force for the nation’s growing older adult population.
The Hartford Partnership Program for Aging Education’s innovation is in building partnerships between universities and community agencies that offer students varied experience providing highly skilled social work care for older adults across a range of settings.
