MSc Social Work (Advanced Practice)

Academic Overview

Social work is a profession of judgment, relationships and justice. This advanced practice master's deepens your capacity for assessment, safeguarding, trauma-informed intervention and ethical leadership within welfare systems. You will critically engage social policy, law contexts and community practice while strengthening research literacy for evidence-informed service improvement. The capstone portfolio integrates case analysis, reflective practice and a practice-research project. MSc Social Work (Advanced Practice) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 24 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Theories of Social Work & Critical Practice through Theories of Social Work & Critical Practice; Social Policy, Welfare Systems & Human Rights; Assessment, Risk & Safeguarding Practice; Ethics, Power & Professional Accountability; Trauma-Informed & Strengths-Based Interventions; Child, Family & Adult Care Law Contexts, and finish on MSc Social Work Capstone Portfolio. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Conduct rigorous multi-agency risk assessments and safety plans Apply trauma-informed and strengths-based interventions Navigate law, ethics and professional accountability in complex cases Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 36 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Advanced Social Work Practitioner
• Safeguarding Lead / Practice Supervisor
• Children & Families Team Leader
• Community Development Manager
• Policy & Advocacy Officer (Social Care)

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.