Welcome!
Social work major Alison Yoder, from Baltimore, Md., interned as a client advocate at Blue Ridge Legal Aid Society in Harrisonburg before graduating from EMU in April 2006.
EMU's social work and applied sociology program aims to prepare generalist social workers committed to personal and professional development.
Graduates promote quality of life and social justice through the facilitation of individual and community empowerment and work in a variety of careers.
They do their work at a small liberal arts college based on an Anabaptist and Mennonite Christian world view that values caring relationships, service to others, community, peacebuilding and a global perspective.
Program Goals
- Provide students with basic knowledge, values and skills required for generalist, entry-level social work practice.
- Prepare students for graduate social work education.
- Promote social justice, service and peacebuilding as a way of life in a diverse multicultural, global community.
- Foster an ongoing dialogue about how an Anabaptist Christian perspective complements professional social work values and ethics in social work practice.
