CWU Confers 1st Batch of Post-Grad Students Majoring in Social Work

China Women's University (CWU) held a graduation and master's degree commencement ceremony on July 2 for the university's first batch of 30 students majoring in social work, who will go on to work on women's services and women's rights protection after college.

CWU was approved to become the pilot unit of "the program of cultivating talent serving the country's special needs" in 2012 and started to carry out the task of cultivating post-graduate students majoring in social work since then.

Based on the requirements of the program, CWU designed the implementation plan, scientifically identified the talent cultivation target and stuck to the cultivation concept of "relying on women's federations, serving women; jointly cultivating talents, educating students through practice; respecting rules, highlighting characteristics". Organizers also improved and implemented the cultivation plan, discovered and built the cultivation mode of women talents on social work with occupation capability at the core, with joint cultivation as the platform, and with the cultivation of practice capability as the major point.

In addition, CWU constantly consolidated the basis of joint cultivation, made efforts to establish the teaching and studying science research platform, strengthened the faculty building, and enforced the segments of recruitment, course teaching and practice teaching. Furthermore, it increased the input of funds to enforce the basic teaching developments, instructed the management, and improved the teaching quality control system, yielding good results and forming distinctive characteristics.

After the two-year curriculum on women's social work and domestic social work with social gender consciousness, the students have achieved a combination of theory and practice through the progressive teaching on the course, and have raised their overall quality and professional services capability. The 30 students graduated successfully, with a current employment rate of 97 percent.

(Source: cwu.edu.cn/Translated and edited by Women of China)