25 Bachelor Programs in Social Work in Canada for 2024

Bachelor Programs in Social Work in Canada for 2024Filter
    • Ottawa, Canada

    Full time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    English

    Carleton’s Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) is a four-year Honours degree that places a strong emphasis on the interactions between people and their environments. The BSW program combines a liberal arts education with professional social work education. In your first year, you will take a range of courses outside of social work and two social work courses that will introduce you to the profession of social work and the programs and policies of the state.

    • Ottawa, Canada

    Full time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    English, French

    This program, which combines management and the social sciences, helps you discover new ways of solving social problems, such as poverty, discrimination, and the climate crisis. In this program, you will gain a deeper understanding of these deep-rooted problems, as well as the related systems and institutions. You will also explore models of organizations and social enterprises that can help to mobilize your community to bring about positive and sustainable change.

    • Winnipeg, Canada

    Full time, Part time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    French

    This program trains bilingual social workers who contribute to social and personal development. Social workers support individuals, families, groups in order to improve their well-being. They promote social changes that can improve living conditions. They work in many areas: counseling, group facilitation, mental health, patient support, child and family services, assessments for long-term care centers, etc. A career of endless possibilities awaits you!

    • Langley City, Canada
    • Richmond, Canada

    Full time

    18 months

    Blended, Distance Learning, On-Campus

    English

    In a world of mounting pressures and uncertainty, there is a need for competent, compassionate professionals who work to bring healing to others. You don’t have to look very far to see that alleviating human suffering in our world involves complexities and challenges.

    • Orillia, Canada

    Full time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    English

    This program is designed for students who want to understand human behaviour and use this knowledge to promote the mental health of individuals, families, groups and communities. Students are exposed to a range of counselling and psychotherapy approaches as well as a strong foundation in psychology research and theory. In the practicum and work term, students obtain experience with different populations and working environments that allows them to explore career options and practice the skills that prepare them for employment or graduate studies. The curriculum fosters an understanding of diverse sociocultural factors, lifespan development, theory and practice in a range of counselling and psychotherapy approaches, ethical and evidence-based professional practices, as well as the research methods and psychological theories that inform counselling and psychotherapy practice.

    • Grande Prairie, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    A degree in Social Work equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary for generalist social work practice in several diverse settings, including schools, hospitals, treatment facilities, corrections, planning councils, family and youth service agencies, and long-term care centres. Social workers are licensed by the Alberta College of Social Workers. Students can attend NWP for their first two years of study before applying to the University of Calgary for the remainder of the program. Students will apply to the Online BSW program at the University of Calgary.

    • Kingston, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    The undergraduate program in Black Studies at Queen's is a diverse, interdisciplinary program that explores and engages the connections between the arts, social justice, decolonial thought, and practices of anti-oppression. Our program spans multiple faculties and units to bring together world-leading experts in art and activism, geography and planning, global health, literature, creative writing, history, music, philosophy, political thought, religion, and cognate fields of race and anti-racism.

    • Toronto, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    Public Anthropology affirms the role of students and scholars as active citizens, community leaders, and partners in empowerment. This program encourages student activism by offering a critical, cross-cultural perspective on major public issues, and demonstrates how to effect change by drawing on political forces outside the discipline.

    • 100, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    A four-year Bachelor of Arts, Multidisciplinary Studies prepares students for life in an ever-changing world. As creative and global thinkers with advanced analytical and problem-solving skills tied to application in the real world, graduates of the Red Deer Polytechnic BA Multidisciplinary Studies will be prepared to enter a world in which they shape their own path and the world around them.

    • 777, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    To care for the needs and well-being of others is a high calling. How can Christians shape the social policies, services and resources in ways that respect all people as made in God's image? To see the dignity and worth of all people? The Social Work program at Redeemer looks at how individuals interact with different social systems, actively studying social justice, anti-oppressive practice and cultural pluralism as ways to seek justice and transformation in communities.

    • 935, Canada

    Blended

    English

    This accredited degree offers the knowledge, skills, and experience you need to work effectively with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.Develop and increase your knowledge and skills to work with First Nations peoples and all communities with two field education placements.

    • 7899, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    Be part of an exciting and in-demand field. Our Community and Justice Services program looks at criminal justice through the lens of corrections and rehabilitation. Learn to work with individuals in the court system, during imprisonment and after release. After graduation, you may work as a correctional officer or help others re-enter society at a halfway house or other community agency.

    • 1520, Canada

    On-Campus

    English

    The School of Social Work focuses on Indigenous, structural, critical feminist, anti-oppressive, and anti-racism perspectives with northern, rural, remote, Indigenous, and Franco-Ontarian communities.

    • Winnipeg, Canada

    Full time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    English

    When passion for social justice and career come together – think social work. If you’re interested in a rewarding career in which you help people reach their potential by overcoming difficulties and improving their lives, consider a career in social work.

    • London, Canada

    Full time

    4 years

    On-Campus

    English

    The School of Social Work at King's provides a unique learning environment characterized by excellence in social work education directed toward developing and fostering ethical and competent professional practitioners, at both the beginning and advanced levels, who recognize the interrelatedness of human needs, social structures and oppressive conditions in their practice with diverse populations. Social Work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups, and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims to help people develop their skills and their ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social Work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and domestic violence.