Department of Social Work - Major Programme

Study Scheme
Students are required to complete a minimum of 72 units of courses as follows:

Year 1

Term 1: SOWK1001 (Faculty Package) / SOWK2001

Term 2: SOWK2110 + Any TWO MORE social science faculty package courses, offered by two different departments/schools, chosen from the list below

Year 2

Term 1: SOWK2020 / SOWK2210 / SOWK2220

Term 2: SOWK2140 / SOWK2230 / SOWK2430

Summer (Elective - Optional): SOWK2050

Year 3 - (From September to March) First Placement, i.e. SOWK3410 + 3420

Term 1: SOWK3340 / At least one from SOWK3240, 3250

Term 2: SOWK3310 / SOWK3320

Year 4 - (From September to March) Second Placement, i.e. SOWK4410 + 4420. At least THREE from SOWK4030, 4510, 4520, 4530, 4540, 4550, 4570, 4590, 4591, 4592

Term 1: SOWK4350

Term 2: SOWK4020

Social Work Major Course List

Course Code / Course Title	Units
SOWK2001 Student-orientated Teaching I	2
SOWK2020 Philosophy and Principles of Social Work	3
SOWK2050 Interprofessional Learning for Social Work in Health Care	3
SOWK2110 Human Behaviour and the Social Environment	3
SOWK2140 Mental Disorders	2
SOWK2210 Social Casework	3
SOWK2220 Social Group Work	3
SOWK2230 Community Work	3
SOWK2430 Social Work Field Laboratory	2
SOWK3240 Clinical Social Work Theories and Practice	3
SOWK3250 Macro Social Work Theories and Practice	3
SOWK3310 Social Welfare Administration	3
SOWK3320 Social Work Research	3
SOWK3340 Social Policy and Planning	3
SOWK3410 Field Instruction I	4
SOWK3420 Field Instruction II	4
SOWK4020 Student-oriented Teaching II	2
SOWK4030 Social Work Guided Research	3
SOWK4350 Law and Social Work	3
SOWK4410 Field Instruction III	4
SOWK4420 Field Instruction IV	4
SOWK4510 Seminar I: Family Centered Social Work	3
SOWK4520 Seminar II: Social Work with Young People	3
SOWK4530 Seminar III: Social Work with Older People	3
SOWK4540 Seminar IV: Social Work with People with Special Needs	3
SOWK4550 Seminar V: Poverty and Social Exclusion	3
SOWK4570 Seminar VII: Art-based Social Work Practice	3
SOWK4590 Seminar IX: Family Therapy	3
SOWK4591 Seminar X: Research Seminar	3
SOWK4592 Seminar XI: Special Seminar	3

Social Science Faculty Package Course List

Students should browse the Undergraduate Student Handbook to access the Faculty Package course list. Students are reminded that these are variations based on students’ year of admission to CUHK:

https://rgsntl.rgs.cuhk.edu.hk/aqs_prd_applx/public/handbook/Default.aspx?id=1599&tv=T&lang=en

# Social Work Free Elective Courses Recommended by Department for Major Student’s Self-Enrichment:

Course Code / Course Title	Units
SOWK2160 Economic Insecurity and Society Security	3
SOWK2202 Social Work and Cultural Diversity	3
SOWK2203 Mission-driven Social Enterprise	3
SOWK2204 Social Innovation and Social Change for Good	3

Notes:

SOWK courses at 2000 level and above will be included in the calculation of the Major GPA for honours classification.
For students transferred to the Social Work Programme and who had taken SOWK1113 or 1114 as part of the Faculty Package, the courses should be counted as part of their elective courses. They should take an additional Faculty Package course to fulfill the Faculty Package requirement.
All social work students are required to take at least one PSYC course and one SOCI course.
CUHK adopts bilingual teaching policy, where the medium of instruction of individual course will be shown in the course registration system. For courses that listed to be C&E (Cantonese and English), the course lecture and tutorial would be switched to English if there are students who do not know Cantonese.
Students are encouraged to take SOWK4030 preferably in their final year of study to enhance their research ability by conducting a guided research on selected topics.

Change of Major

For current CUHK undergraduate students who would like to change their major of studies to Social Work, please observe the information in our admission page.