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Department: Social Welfare

Executive Officer: Professor Barbra Teater

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York NY 10016

Email: social_welfare@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/SocialWelfare

FACULTY

Paul Archibald, Paul Attewell, Luis Barrios, Juan Battle, Michelle Billies, Katharine Bloeser, Luisa Borrell, Martha Bragin, Elisabeth Brauner, Robyn Brown-Manning, Tamara Buckley, Steve Burghardt, Elizabeth Capezuti, Mary Cavanaugh, Bin Chen, Sherry Deckman, Diane Depanfilis, Sarah-Jane Dodd, Berenecea Eanes, Michael Fabricant, Michelle Fine, Nina Rose Fischer, Daniel Gardner, Nancy Giunta, Demis Glasford, Sarit Golub, Geetha Gopalan, Laura Graham Holmes, Bernadette Hadden, Colleen Henry, Daniel Herman, Dagmar Herzog, Alexis Jemal, Heidi Jones, Lila Kazemian, Alexis Kuerbis, Paul Kurzman, Marina Lalayants, Rufina (Ji Yeong) Lee, Vicki Lens, Michael Lewis, Mayra Lopez-Humphreys, Gerald Mallon, James Mandiberg, Carl Mazza, Mark McBeth, Jeremy Porter, Jonathan Prince, Rosa Rivera-McCutchen, Selena Rodgers, Caroline Rosenthal Gelman, Jama Shelton, Benjamin Shepard, Calvin Smiley, Robert Smith, Fabienne Snowden, Esther Son, Brett Stoudt, Barbra Teater, Willie Tolliver, Deborah Tolman, Jason Van Ora, Bryan Warde, Kevin Wolff

THE PROGRAM

The Graduate Center of The City University of New York offers the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare. The program prepares students for leadership in higher education, human service organizations, and knowledge development. The program develops student capacity to contribute to social work practice theory and knowledge at multiple levels. The areas of theory and knowledge development include: the design, implementation, and evaluation of social policies and programs; practice interventions and services; and social welfare education and training programs. The program emphasizes methodological pluralism in research that grows out of questions generated from student’s experiences working in the human services. The program accepts up to 12 students each year and requires that the applicant have at least three years of post-master’s work experience in human service organizations. The program selects a highly qualified and diverse student body. Some students remain full-time professionals while attending the program. A small number of non-matriculated part-time students may be admitted annually to specific elective courses.

Policy, theory, knowledge development, and research methods and analysis courses develop students’ abilities to conduct research, analyze policies, and to design, implement, and evaluate programs to achieve policy goals at various individual, group, community, or institutional levels of practice. These courses are structured to extend and deepen the knowledge base in the human services.

As each student begins to define an area of inquiry, specialization can be developed flexibly through the selection of elective courses. Elective courses can be taken at the Graduate Center or at any one of the member universities of the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium. Historically, students have taken courses outside of the Social Welfare Ph.D. Program in a number of disciplines, including sociology, political science, public health, and psychology, among others. Recently, a number of students have taken the required courses at the Graduate Center to earn the Women’s Studies Certificate, Africana Studies Certificate, Information Technology and Pedagogy Certificate, and the Demography Certificate in addition to their doctorates.