MSW at IISWBM Kolkata Offline Course

The Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management was set up in the year 1953 with the vision to create professionals to manage professional business organizations with an awareness of the social responsibility of business. The name of the Institute itself suggests that the founding fathers felt the need to blend business management with social welfare through academic excellence. The focus at IISWBM has always been to create socially conscious professional managers. After completing sixty years of promoting excellence in education it would like to renew its pledge by offering a postgraduate degree program in Social Welfare to meet the growing need for trained manpower, through value-based professional education for social work in different social spheres.

The course is designed to provide students with sound theoretical knowledge about social work, social welfare, laws, policies and the fields and domains of social work. It will develop knowledge of the history and development of social work in India and abroad as well as current trends of social work practices. It aims to develop skills in students for working with people and communities at different levels and network with other groups and professionals working in similar areas. The course will also emphasize an understanding of the relation between the State, its policies and laws and how these can be usefully deployed for ensuring human rights and entitlements.

The course will be delivered through classroom sessions, presentations, seminars as well as a fieldwork-based internship. The faculty is experienced in teaching, research, as well as practice.

Students will be required to any two areas of specialization from the list below to qualify for the degree.