ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN
SOCIAL WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

Introduction

The Advanced Certificate in Social Welfare Administration is a part-time, evening programme. Conducted by the Department of Social Welfare Administration, this certificate course was initiated to meet the needs of social welfare organisations for advanced training in the management of social welfare programmes.

This part-time, two-semester programme is conducted at the Mumbai Campus of the Institute.

Course Outline

Theory Courses (12 Credits)

Project Formulation, Monitoring and Evaluation.
Agency Administration.
Human Resource Development.
Organisational Behaviour and Development.
Contemporary Social Issues and Social Policies.
Financial Management.

Field Work (6 credits)

Students will be required to undertake fieldwork in an organisation other than their own. Field work will be assigned on the basis of individual and organisational needs and will be task oriented. This will cover scope, strategies for organisational change, human resource development, resource mobilisation and resource management, social aspects in monitoring and evaluation. Field work will be for one month at the end of the course work, for which students will be required to take leave for one month.

Project Report (4 credits)

A project gives the student an opportunity to undertake problem solving, planning or research activity in an area of interest, which has relevance to his/her work situation. The subject area will be identified in the middle of the first semester and each student will be allotted a guide.

Eligibility

Master’s Degree in Social Work with a minimum of 3 years of work experience OR a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with a minimum of 5 years of work experience in the field of development administration of social welfare organisations, social services and social security measures.

Reservations

The TISS is an equal opportunity institution and there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, age or physical disability. As per Government of India directives, there is a reservation for the following groups.

15 % seats are reserved for candidates who belong to Scheduled Castes and 7.5 % for Scheduled Tribes.
3 % of seats are reserved for the persons with disability of which 1 % each is reserved for (a) Low Vision/ Blindness (b) Hearing Impairment, and (c) Locomotor Disability/ Cerebral Palsy in all the programmes.

Contact Details

Postal Address

Post Box 8313, Deonar, Mumbai 400 088

Letters may be addressed to:

The Head
Department of Social Welfare Administration
Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Telephone

91-22-2556 3289-96, Extn. 252

The telephone board functions from 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

Fax

91-22-2556 2912

E-mail

stp@tiss.edu

FERNSTALK, Chembur, Mumbai 400 071

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