San Alfonso University Foundation (Fundación Universitaria San Alfonso (FUSA))
Social Work
Bogotá, Colombia
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jan 2027
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Social Work program at The San Alfonso University Foundation, led by the Congregation of Redemptorist Missionaries, forms humanistic, ethically grounded professionals within Colombian and Latin American contexts and an international perspective. You’ll learn to interpret globalization, design, manage, and evaluate social development projects, programs, plans, and public policies. The curriculum focuses on peacebuilding, strengthening the social fabric, developing human potential, and combining knowledge and pedagogical practice to promote social transformation.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as community development workers, project managers in NGOs, policy analysts, social program evaluators, peacebuilding practitioners, case managers, or in research, advocacy, and education.
The training of the Social Worker of the San Alfonso University Foundation will allow them to understand and critically interpret the challenges of globalization and propose creative alternative solutions to the problems that affect the planning and social management of human and social development projects. Directs, manages, and evaluates the impact of projects, programs, plans, and public and social policies.
The social worker in the peacebuilding scenario contributes to the development of human potentialities, the strengthening of the social fabric to face the needs derived from the armed conflict, establishing scenarios where knowledge and pedagogical practices converge, from which it can be projected a social transformation.
