School of Social Work

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March to resist cuts to social services

Resisting neoliberalism

School of Social Work faculty Cheryl Moir-van Iersel and Yvonne Haist march to demonstrate the school's opposition to cuts to social services.

Social Work Students work on their journals

Innovative teaching and learning

Students in the summer intensive course "Collaborative Conversations" use art journals to express their thoughts, feelings and questions.

Faculy and staff

Knowledgeable faculty

Learn from a diverse group of faculty and instructors with experience and knowlege across many areas of social work.

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Distance education

Flexible learning through our distance education program

Darren Usher lived and worked from Vancouver while he completed his Bachelor of Social Work through distance education. "I selected the School of Social Work at UVic because of the distance education program and its excellent reputation."

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Kundoqk Jacquie Green photo

Kundoqk, Jacquie Green is first Indigenous director

Our director, Kundoqk, Dr. Jacquie Green (Haisla) is the first Indigenous director of any mainstream post-secondary social-work program in Canada.

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Students, staff and elders

Indigenous specializations

Learn about undergraduate and graduate specializations for Indigenous students.

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Share our commitment. Bring justice to life.

Learn how to impact change with our flexible and innovative programs. Choose from the standard program or one of three specializations in our Bachelor of Social Work program, or develop critical skills with one of our three distinct Master of Social Work programs.

Learn in a supportive environment that promotes equity, respect, responsibility, curiosity, collaboration, risk-taking and creativity.

Learn where you live

Complete your BSW courses through on-campus/distance education delivery or by distance education. You can choose to complete the program by taking a combination of on-campus/blended learning courses and distance education courses.

Susan StregaProfessor Susan Strega receives the SSHRC Insight Development Research Grant for her research The Other Side of the Equation: Researching Male Customers of Street Sex Workers.

Wheel of Structural ViolenceAssistant Professor Cathy Richardson produces Breaking Through Structural Violence: Metis 101.

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Youth Voices Create Change

Truth and ReconciliationAssistant Professor Teresa Macias participates in Research Conversations and presents Can the 'Indian in the child' ever speak? The production of the residential school survivor in media discourse in Canada.

Dora Leigh BjornsonDistance Education Program Director Dora Leigh Bjornson is interviewed for The Ring -  Day in the life: Dora Leigh Bjornson.

Gateway pipelineSenior Instructor Yvonne Haist intervenes at the Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings.

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