Social work is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities and belongs to sociology. The basic study period is four years, and the bachelor of law degree is awarded.

This major cultivates compound applied professionals with professional values of "people-oriented, helping others and helping themselves, fairness and justice", a solid theoretical foundation, and skilled knowledge and ability of social work methods, who can engage in social work services and social welfare management in party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, social organizations and other departments and fields.

Professional education and teaching should adhere to the guidance of Marxism, train students to have a firm and correct political direction, understand and support the principles and policies of the party and the state, have humanistic quality, scientific spirit, sense of social responsibility and sense of innovation and entrepreneurship, have socialist core values, be healthy physically and mentally, and develop morally, intellectually and physically.