MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK (MSW)
Masters of Social Work (MSW)degree provided at OUT is a demand driven program aimed at promoting the professional growth of social works in Tanzania. It aims at preparing students for advanced direct professional practice with individuals’ families, households, groups, organizations and communities’ students are expected to learn the clinical organizational, policy and administrative skills necessary for promoting social and economic and enhance the quality of life for all people through agency based, culturally sensitive advanced professional practice.
The program is designed to pursue among other things the primary mission of social work profession. This includes enabling students to enhance human wellbeing and help clients to meet their basic human needs. Further, the program aims at enabling students to empower clients who are vulnerable opposed and living in poverty. Fundamental to the above objectives, is the attention of social work paid to the social, economic and environmental forces that create, contribute to and address problem in the living process.
Programme Summary
Programmes Informations
- Applicants for a Masters of Social Work is required to have a good first degree in social work (Bachelors in Social Work) with at least upper second class
- Applicants with an advanced diploma from a recognized higher learning institution with an upper second class will be admitted
- Candidates with post graduate diploma in social work will have an added advantage
- Candidate with no social work background (first degree in social work) will have to undergo a one year post graduate diploma before they are admitted into Masters of Social Work.
SN | Course Code | Course Title | Units | Status |
1 | OSP 602 | Advanced Clinical Social Work | 2 | Core |
2 | OSP 603 | Advanced Administrative and Community Social Work | 2 | Core |
3 | OSP 604 | Advanced Social Welfare Policy Analysis | 2 | Core |
4 | OSP 605 | Advanced Social Work Research | 2 | Core |
5 | OSP 606 | Field Practicum | 2 | Core |
6 | OSP 607 | Dissertation | 6 | Core |
7 | OSP 601 | Contemporary Issues in Social Development: Gender, Population, Environment, Food Security and Corruption | 2 | Elective |
8 | OSP 610 | Leadership with Children and Family Services | 2 | Elective |
9 | OSP 611 | Leadership in Health Services | 2 | Elective |
10 | OSP 612 | Leadership in Development and Emergency Response | 2 | Elective |
11 | OSP 613 | Leadership in Social Work Education | 2 | Elective |
Required Total Units (16 Core Units + 2 Elective Units) | 18 |
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To produce social workers who are well knowledgeable, organized and professional as well as practical.
They should be able to provide social work services that are necessary competent to the vulnerable sectors of the society such as children, youth, the old and most vulnerable population effectively in the community and various social settings.
| SN | NAME | PROGRAM | MOBILE NO | |
| 1. | Sipha Y. Shaaban | MSW, PGDSW | 0784239573 | sipha.shaaban@out.ac.tz |
To produce social workers who are well knowledgeable, organized and professional as well as practical.
They should be able to provide social work services that are necessary competent to the vulnerable sectors of the society such as children, youth, the old and most vulnerable population effectively in the community and various social settings.
The programme has 5 taught courses in total, (the sixth is field work) which are divided into three semesters for delivery purposes. This means that there are two courses (ie two lecturers) in a semester, which lasts up to 12 weeks or roughly three months.
For each course in a trimester a student is expected to actively participate in the Moodle platform which carries 20% marks of the said course and to write a Term paper which carries 30% marks and at the end of the semester, the student is expected to write the final exam for the course which carries 50% of the marks.The lecturers monitor accuracy of contributions each student makes when discussing to constitute the 20%.
The final exam is done after second F2F sessions following the initial F2F session that was mainly for moodle orientation. In the last semester, students are required to go for field practicum for a total of 60 days.
During field work, students will be assessed and are expected to fill the field portfolio document which documents their field experiences and learning. At the end of the field work, they are expected to write a field report.
Field work is a very crucial element of social work studies; the assessment (10%) field portfolio (40%) and field report (50%) together make up the 100% mark for the course.
