Welcome to our Web Site. The Faculty of Social Work at The University of Manitoba is one of the largest social work programs in Canada. Over the past 65 years we have provided social work education to thousands of students. As the only university-based social work program in the Province of Manitoba, we take our responsibilities very seriously as evidenced by our efforts to provide social work education province-wide. Presently, we offer BSW, MSW, and PhD programs on our main (Fort Garry) campus and we offer the full BSW program at our inner city location in Winnipeg and at our northern campus in Thompson, Manitoba. In addition, we offer a face to face distance education program in a number of rural and Aboriginal communities around Manitoba, and an independent study program throughout Canada. Given our size, we are able to provide a wide array of courses, field placements, and different learning experiences to our students.

This is a progressive social work program with an excellent faculty. Several faculty members are recognized leaders in their particular fields of teaching and research and all faculty aim to ensure that our graduates are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to make a valuable contribution to their workplaces and to the larger society. As a social work program, we place high value on critical thinking, social justice, and respect for both individuals and diverse cultures. The reputation of our graduates as well-prepared social workers has created a demand for them by employers across Canada and beyond.

Thanks for your interest in the Faculty of Social Work.  Please feel free to contact us for further information or assistance.

Harvy Frankel, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Dean, Faculty of Social Work
University of Manitoba

To pursue knowledge and provide accessible and inclusive educational programs that will advance the fields of social work practice and social policy at all levels and that will contribute to the development of societies in promoting respect for human rights and dignity, individual worth and well being, diversity, social inclusion, and the principles of social justice. To prepare students for ethical, competent, critically reflective, innovative, anti-oppressive, accountable, and effective social work practice at all levels. To create and maintain a learning environment that promotes and supports respect for difference, risk-taking, democratic  participation, a spirit of inquiry, equity, innovation, originality, and collaboration. To acknowledge, support, and promote different traditions of knowledge and different methods of knowledge gathering.

(Approved by Faculty Council on November 27, 2008)


Faculty of Social Work Vision Statement:

The vision of the Faculty of Social Work is to help create and contribute to a world where there are no great inequalities of wealth or income, where economic and political power is more evenly distributed, where human need is the central value of distribution of society’s resources, where diversity of culture is celebrated, where people have greater control over their own lives, and where all persons are afforded maximum opportunity to enrich their physical, spiritual, psychological, and intellectual well-being.  Being the only university-based social work program in Manitoba and the largest program in Canada, this vision also includes the Faculty playing a leading role in the socio-economic-cultural development of the Province in particular, but also to Canada and beyond, which is consistent with the University’s own vision statement. To these ends, it is necessary that the Faculty become one of the outstanding social work programs in Canada with respect to research, quality education, community service, and the accomplishments of its graduates.

(Approved by Faculty Council on November 27, 2008)