Bachelor of Social Work

About this programme

* Applicants whose grade average from the last 30 credits is below the minimum 70% required are required to submit the Disclosure of Academic Circumstances . Please provide an overview of the circumstances that have affected your academic performance. Include any relevant dates, impacts, and supporting context. Cape Breton University’s Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program is designed to prepare the next generation of social workers with practice-ready skills to address social and systemic inequities. In response to pressing socio-economic crises and healthcare challenges, the BSW program uses a trauma-informed lens which emphasizes bio-psycho-social determinants of health, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples and decolonization of social work practice, generational dimensions of poverty and addiction and culturally safe practices and care. The BSW curriculum is relevant to practice across Nova Scotia and beyond wherever rural, Indigenous and de-industrialize communities are found and intersect. An accelerated 16-month program accredited through the Canadian Association of Social Work Education (CASWE) , the BSW program adheres to the core learning objectives of CASWE while maintaining the commitments to an inclusive and supportive learning environment that enables ongoing self-reflection and the integration of theory, research and practice through hands-on learning experiences. The BSW program offers opportunities for intra-professional collaboration and aims to thoughtfully prepare practice ready social workers for the profession. The BSW program is delivered full-ti