- Social work practitioners that Chanakya University aims to graduate will.
- Be able to serve as skilled practitioners who engage with societal problems from an ethical perspective recognizing diversity.
- Serve as change agents who advance social, economic, and environmental justice and also promote human rights.
- Become leaders who value and appreciate human relationships as much as the synergistic relationship of human civilization with nature.
- Practice scientific enquiry and lifelong learning.
- Multi-lateral bi-lateral agencies
- Big International NGOs
- Foundations / Think tanks
- CSR division of corporate houses
- Government departments intervening into social dysfunction
- Social entrepreneurship
- Cooperatives
- Industrial relations and personal management offices
- Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
- Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice.
- Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
- Engage diversity and difference in practice.
- Advance human rights and social and economic justice.
- Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
- Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
- Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services.
- Respond to contexts that shape practice.
- Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Hands on practice of social work in reputed and change making NGOs
- Interaction with established professionals to inform practice aspects of theory
- Ethnographic understanding of social problems during field study
- Opportunity to intern at Big NGOs[BINGOs] and International NGOs[INGOs]
- MYRADA
- GRAAM
- Participatory research in Asia
- International society for Third sector Research [ISTR] JHU, Baltimore
- Social solidarity economy, Manila, Philippines
- Eco-Foundation for sustainable alternatives
- Charles Leopold Mayers foundation
Academic Calendar
September 2023- June 2024
Course Structure
| Course Type | Course Tiltle | Course Credit | |
| Semester 1 | Core | Introduction to Professional Social Work | 4 |
| Core | Human Growth and Development | 4 | |
| Core | Social Case Work | 4 | |
| Core | Social Group Work | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Communication Skills for Social Workers | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Personal and Professional Growth | 4 | |
| Core | Field Work/Practicum 1 | 4 | |
| Semester 2 | Core | Community Organisation | 4 |
| Core | Social Work Research and Statistics | 4 | |
| Core | Counselling – Theory and Practise | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Social Action – Networking and Advocacy | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Development Paradigms for the Empowerment of the Marginalized | 4 | |
| Core | Field Work/Practicum 2 | 4 | |
| Open Elective | Life Skills for Quality Living | 4 | |
| Semester 3 | Core | Social Policy, Law, Governance and Social Work | 4 |
| Core | Medical and Psychiatric Social Work | 4 | |
| Core | Human Resource Management and Development | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Development | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development | 4 | |
| Core | Field Work/ Practicum 3 | 4 | |
| Open Elective | Mental Health and Counselling | 4 | |
| Semester 4 | Core | Management of Welfare and Development Organisations | 4 |
| Core | Rural Urban and Tribal Community Development | 4 | |
| Core | Labour Legislation and Industrial Relations | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Project Management for Participatory Development | 4 | |
| Special Paper | Women Child and Correctional Social Work | 4 | |
| Core | Dissertation/Research Project | 4 | |
| Core | Field Work/Practicum 4 | 4 |