{"id":196,"date":"2025-09-30T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ydyf\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2025-09-30T13:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:36:19","slug":"bachelor-of-social-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ydyf\/bachelor-of-social-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor of Social Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 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rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to critically analyze social, political and economic structures that limit human and civil rights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to advance social justice for individuals, families, groups and communities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowledge about how discrimination and oppression have a negative impact on particular individuals and groups.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to reflect on their self as it relates to engaging in professional practice through a comprehensive understanding and consciousness of the complex nature of their own social locations and identities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to apply critical thinking to structural sources of inequalities in the Canadian context.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Skills in social work research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to interpret social policies and processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ability to identify gaps in organizational and societal systems and advance solutions to change oppressive social conditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Competently perform 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