Orientation Program

The Orientation Programme is designed to facilitate an appropriate and meaningful entry of the student learners into the first and second years of the Masters Programme in Social Work. The programme facilitates induction of students to the social work profession by orienting them to its philosophy, methods and areas of intervention, orients the students to the field work programme, its various components, sensitises the students to the problems of society especially the marginalized and weaker sections. It is a known fact that the candidates seeking admission to the M.A. Social Work Programme at the Department come from diverse cultural contexts. Attending to this diversity is a crucial aspect of the teaching learning pedagogies of the Department faculty and the same was kept in mind while drafting the first semester orientation programme for 2022-2024 batch and for third semester 2021-2023 batch and selecting the resource persons for various sessions. The planning and the execution of the programme were held under the guidance of the Director, Field Work, who headed a core team comprising of diligent and resourceful faculty members.

Concurrent Field Work

Social Work is a practice-oriented discipline and concurrent field work is a fundamental component of two-year Masters of Social Work Programme being offered at the Department. The aim of this component is to assist the students to develop a critical understanding of the social context in which they function, build the required skills and competencies and enhance their capacities for meaningful intervention. The students are placed either in a community setting or in an agency. They are required to work for two field work days in a week in their respective fieldwork settings for the entire academic year. This mode of learning enhances the students’ ability to relate theory with practice. It also develops their personal skills in the process of enriching the lives of people with whom the learners work.

Supportive Field Work Instructions

The component of Supportive Field Work Instruction, as the name suggests, has been instituted to impart supplementary skills and knowledge to the social work trainees. In this academic year, the Field Work Unit organised interactive sessions, writing reflective journal workshops and inviting eminent social work practitioners and experts from various domains and departmental faculty to offer an ideal mix of the field realities and theoretical underpinnings.

Student Seminars

Student Conference, as a component of field work programme provides the students a platform to share and discuss their field experiences through research-based academic papers. It gives an opportunity to the students to contextualise their field experiences within a theoretical frame and build upon their analytical skills. All the faculty members work with their respective students in planning, writing and presenting their research papers.

Mid-Course Block Placement

The Block Field Work Training is a mandatory requirement of Master’s degree in Social Work. After the second semester examination, the students undergo block fieldwork training for a minimum period of 30 days to a maximum of 45 days. This training starts from May end and goes on till mid-July of the academic year. This component comprises a full-time supervised work at a chosen organisation with due approval of the Department. The Block placement is designed to help integrate theory and practice, to enhance the competencies of the students and to garner professional experience. More than 72 organizations provided opportunity to our students during the block internship, this academic year.

Department Placement Cell

The Placement Cell is a special initiative by the department. It acts as a liaison between the students and the recruiting agencies and facilitates the entire placement process. Civil Society Organisations, Public Sector Undertakings, Consulting Companies and many other agencies and institutions working in the developmental sector take part in the campus placement process of the Department.The Placement Committee comprised of the Placement Director, student coordinators and student representatives. The Placement Committee undertakes a number of responsibilities such as organising Pre-Placement Talks, short-listing of the students for jobs based on interest/ job description and facilitating Placement Interviews.

Academic Life at DSSW

Orientation Program

Concurrent Field Work

Supportive Field Work Instructions

Student Seminars

Mid-Course Block Placement

Department Placement Cell

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