Social Work Bachelor

Laurentian is amazing because it gives you the rare opportunity of getting to know your professors. Small classes let you ask the questions that matter to you and explore topics with flexibility. Many professors are glad to talk to students to further their learning and career goals. Laurentian is incredibly interconnected and is full of opportunities for collaboration, research, and involvement that learners who are only known by their student number do not get to benefit from.

My program has transformed my relationship to myself, others, and society. The opportunity for self directed learning and exposure to a variety of world views has been invaluable to developing my willingness, receptiveness, active engagement with new theories and perspectives. Social work matures your opinions by integrating lived experience with formal research. Course content in social work interweaves material on reconciliation that promotes an emotional, spiritual, and intellectual understanding of colonization; reflection on my settler identity; and decolonizing action. Social work is unique because students in every year are encouraged and sometimes even required to participate in activism and social justice initiatives. Learning is only considered successful when it translates into action beyond the boundaries of the classroom. Social work is a rigorous and theoretically complex program that teaches applied professional skills. Accordingly, social work at Laurentian is perfect for everyone who is prepared to work hard and come with an open mind, an open heart, and humility.