With the purpose of helping to reduce inequalities and discrimination that affect groups traditionally dispossessed, oppressed, and excluded from society, the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile brings together the proposals of critical traditions focused both on the redistribution of wealth and on the recognition of moral grievances, guiding Undergraduate, Graduate, and Continuing Education toward addressing urgent and sensitive issues on the country’s social agenda.

The training of professionals capable of understanding and intervening in social issues is carried out through R&D&I Research Clusters—an advanced integrative pedagogical approach grounded in research that articulates Undergraduate and Graduate teaching, the development of professional interventions, and public eng