[Cultivation objectives] Cultivate versatile applied talents engaged in management, planning, research, consultation, education and project operation in fields such as social work and social governance, social work and health management, social work and intelligent technologies with multi-disciplinary knowledge background such as sociology, psychology, management and welfare economy.

[Specialty advantages] The specialty is one of Zhejiang top specialties, Zhejiang emerging featured specialty and a key specialty of the university. The specialty has strong teacher resources, including 3 professors, 4 associate professors and 5 doctors. With mature practice teaching systems, the specialty can develop new-type teaching modes such as virtual simulation teaching, project-oriented teaching, field immersive teaching and workshops. Graduates of the specialty have relatively high professional counterpart rate, and many of the graduates have been awarded with honors such as leading talents of community works of Hangzhou. In addition, the students of the specialty have favorable prospect to enter into a higher college. Most comprehensive universities at home and abroad have masters and doctors of social work as well as masters and doctors of sociology. Many of the graduates enter into domestic and foreign famous universities such as New York University, University of Edinburgh, Macau University of Science and Technology and East China University of Science and Technology for a master’s or a doctor’s degree.

[Employment orientation] Students can work for public institutions, communities, welfare institutions, medium and large-scale companies, social organizations, health management organizations, medical health service institutions, colleges and education agencies.

[Core courses] Introduction to Social Work, Social Case Work, Group Work, Community Work, Social Administration, Social Policy, Human Behavior and Social Environment, Social Investigation and Statistics and Social Psychology

[Vocational certificate] Assistant social workers, social workers and senior social workers