Master of Arts in Social Work (Women-Centred Practice)

Description

Women as a diverse category of analysis has increasingly been studied to evolve an understanding of their condition, position and status and their relationship with men, resources and power in society. As national data (NCRB, PLFS and others) reveal women continue to remain marginalised and need to be studied and addressed as a separate vulnerable group. The M.A Social Work in Woman-Centered Practice endeavors to engage learners to critically understand and examine women’s position in society from diverse feminist theoretical frameworks, to develop judicious skills of intervention, and to develop women’s agency and citizenship. The programme aims to prepare and equip its graduates to directly work with people, women in particular, in their families and communities, in state systems and programmes, with organisations initiated by civil society; with issues and concerns of oppressive social structures, at the local, national and international levels; within systems and institutions of governance and the state. The programme envisages that its graduates perform multiple roles of a social worker, programme manager, researcher, and have capacities to design, implement, monitor and evaluate programmes.

Programme Objectives

1. To understand and critically examine women’s position in society from diverse feminist theoretical frameworks.
2. To understand approaches and strategies required to develop women's agency and citizenship
3. To begin a process of reflection and rethinking on equity for women in relation to self.
4. To integrate gender perspective into social work practice.
5. To develop judicious skills of intervention with women.

Programme Outcomes

• Students have the capacity to analyse and locate patriarchal norms and behaviours, language and communications, operating in everyday contexts of women’s lives and ‘our lives’.
• Students can recognize structures of oppression and have faith in the ability of women to negotiate and transgress, subvert and have agency.
• Have skills of women-centered interventions at the micro-mezzo and macro levels.
• Students become capable of working with, within and outside of state system

Distribution of Credit Hours:

Semesterwise Courses:

Note:The curriculum structure is tentative and subject to change.

Fee Structure:

*Institute reserves the rights to revise the Fees Structure of programme if necessary.

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