The School of Social Work has a plan of revising its curriculum every three to five (3-5) years. This is mainly because of the need to accommodate the changes in the surrounding social environment. As the country is making a concerted effort to change and reform the overall social, political, economic, and legal, etc., institutions and infrastructures, it is conspicuous that individuals, families, communities and existing institutions are getting affected in the process. In cognizant of these changes and developments, the requirement for graduates to have different specialized skills in managing and shaping these changes is vital. To this end, the School of Social Work tends to accommodate these changes and developments in its teaching and learning process. There are, in particular, two main reasons that motivate and accelerate the current revision of the Masters curriculum.

1. In line with the new change process in AAU, a modular and block teaching approach becomes mandatory for all MSW programs. The AAU Business Process Reengineering (BPR) implementation has made a major shift from semester based program to modular block-teaching. The BPR necessitates changes in the curricula of departments and schools. Accordingly, the School of Social Work is committed to revise and adjust its curriculum based on the university wide modular curricula development guideline.

2. The School of Social Work, having reviewed its 5 years (2004-2009) dedication of teaching MSW students with generalist social work training, has come to a critical point to decide the opening of concentration areas. This new revision is designed to offer students common generalist social work education, as a background; and concentration areas will build upon these foundation modules. Currently, the need to produce master’s students with specific concentration areas has become apparent. This allows producing highly advanced and very skilful social workers that can contribute better to the overall development endeavours of the country in line with their respective specializations. To achieve this goal, the School identified three concentration areas. These are: 1) Community and Social Development; 2); Children, Youth and Family; and 3) Health Care Social Work. These concentration areas are highly important, and in line with the needs and priorities of the country. Each of the areas is intended to cover and address the pressing societal needs and produce competent social workers who are expected to have required knowledge, skills and values.