Doctoral Program Objectives
The Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science prepares you for a teaching and research career through which you can contribute to the advancement of knowledge about social problems, social change, social interventions, and social welfare, as well as to educate future scholars, researchers, and practitioners. Because our curriculum integrates complete graduate training in a specific social science discipline with advanced studies and research in various areas of social work, you have a broad range of research areas and disciplinary specializations from which you can choose to receive expert training and experience. They include but are not limited to:
- Poverty and mental health
- Social policy, public policy
- Social work practice
- Gerontology and aging
- Youth issues and policy
- Domestic and school violence
- Evaluation research
- Prevention and action research
- Qualitative research, ethnographic methods
- Child welfare and child resiliency, family structure and relations
- Social psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology
- Economic sociology and organizations, nonprofit organizations, organizational psychology
- Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity
- Public law, comparative government
- Public finance, labor economics, health economics
- Sociocultural anthropology, anthropological praxis, linguistics