Jamia Millia Islamia Department of Social Work

Hi I would like to have the information about the Department of Social Work at Jamia Millia Islamia as well as the programmes offered and recent initiatives taken?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The Department of Social Work built up in 1967 has been in the bleeding edge of scholastic and field advancements in the nation and has been reliably updating its educational programs to make it more receptive to the social difficulties in India. After a few periods of exceptional help, in 2010, the UGC perceived the Department as a Center for Advanced Study in Social Work.

The Department is outstanding for its educating and instructional program and additionally inventive field activity ventures. It gloats of top notch profoundly qualified and field grounded personnel. It keeps up a dynamic and individuals focused emancipatory center in its instructional method, research and field activity. The showing workforce is continually occupied with cutting edge research and field activity ventures to advise its instructional projects. Individuals from the workforce likewise serve on different panels for the detailing, observing and execution of advancement activities, both in the administration and the NGO part. A few great distributions from rumored distributers have been delivered by individuals from the workforce.

The Department additionally gloats of fabulous foundation as far as shrewd classrooms, a cutting edge gathering room, very much loaded workshop library, a PC and information preparing research facility and a progressed behavioral and identity advancement lab.

Presently, the Department offers the following instructional programmes:
1. Ph D
2. M A Social Work
3. M A Human Resource Management
4. B A (Hons) Social Work
5. Post Graduate Diploma in Management of Non-Governmental Organisations

Recently, the Department has taken up the following long term initiatives:
1. Behavioural and Personality Enrichment Laboratory:
a. Conduct of skill laboratories
b. Capacity Development of NGOs
c. Development of AV aids for social work education

2. Research and Resource Unit on Social Work with Minorities:
a. Interface with NGOs in Jamia Neighborhood for Need Assessment and Capacity Building
b. Sharing of Best Practices by Jamia Neighbourhood NGOs
c. Development of documentation centre on Minorities

3. Leadership Role in Social Work Education:
a. All India Conference on Professional Social Work
b. Secretariat of the North Zone Network of Schools of Social Work