Background
The course of social work has been introduced with one introductory course/subject in the BA in Sociology program since 1994. After three years of cooperation with the University of Washington in Seattle, the RUPP Department of Social Work was established and it recruited its first cohort of undergraduate students in 2008. Around this time, year 2005, to respond the immediate need for strengthening the capacity of social workers currently working in the government, civil society and private sectors, RUPP also initiated cooperation with the Ewha Womans University (EWU) in Seoul, Republic of Korea to plan and establish a Master Program in Social Work. In June 2007, a MOU between RUPP and EWUwas officially signed and it described the support by EWU Graduate School of Social Welfare to RUPPto establish a Master course in Social Work at RUPP. Shortly after this, a curriculum for this MA Social Work program was elaborated in collaboration with the EWU academic experts. In January 15th 2009, EWU supported RUPP in conducting a workshop to gather all local and international stakeholders ‘comments on the drafted Master’s program of Social Work curriculum at the RUPP Campus 2. At the workshop, 60 participants were from various NGOs and government agencies working in the field of Social Work and Social Welfare in Cambodia. After the workshop, the curriculum was finalized.
Contact Info
Acting Program Coordinator:
- Mr. Kim Sovan Kiry
Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities - Tel: (855) 12 822-049
- Email: msocialwork.info(at)rupp.edu.kh
- Email: kim.sovankiry(at)rupp.edu.kh
- Office: RUPP Campus II
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