Social work is human work. Social workers inform and reinforce people. They contribute to a society where it is good to live in.
That is why the training wants to deliver professionals with a broad and critical view on several social fields. Students who choose Social Work at Howest, choose a broad basic training with space for their own choices and for an idiosyncratic and meaningful view on society and the sector.

After the training you start working in a very diverse work field: the welfare and health sector, the social-cultural and educational sector, the social, legal and economic sector. You work with, for and among the people in youth centres or community work organizations, at the police or in prisons, at OCMW's or local authorities, at trade unions, in hospitals, training institutions, personnel services, national health services, service centres, CLB's, cultural centres, in the social economy, ...

• This programme is only available in Dutch!