The primary mission of the Social Work Department is to raise individuals respectful to differences, sensitive to human rights, endeavoring to remove social inequalities and achieve social justice, providing social work support to individuals unable to fulfill their psychical, psychological and sociological functionalities with an ability to think analytically and critically. In this respect, students are to be qualified in courses such as social work theory, applications and approaches, social work research, foundations of social justice, work ethics and values, human rights, communication and mutual relations, behavioral sciences and psychodynamic approaches, social reform and social welfare theories and models. The objectives of the program are: (1) to raise individuals who have acquired the vision of generalist social work; (2) to raise individuals who have achieved a certain consciousness on the differences and diversities of the client system by using the foundation of knowledge, skill and value of social work; (3) to foster social responsibility on the subjects such as research on social problems, development of social welfare models, construction and implication of relevant social plans, programs and to raise individuals who can conduct social research; (4) to raise individuals defending human rights, democracy, fair equality of opportunity, sensitivity towards differences, tolerance, mutual understanding, freedom of belief, option and expression, cherishing humans, knowledge and science. The central vision of the Social Work Department is to gain individuals who can think universal ethical, analytical and critical to the society and contribute to the attainment of social work education to the universal standards.