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The School of Social Work curriculum is organized around eight foundation areas of study: Human behavior and the Social Environment, Social Welfare Policy and Services, Social Work Practice, Social Work Research, Field Internship, Social Work Values and Ethics, Diversity, Social and Economic Justice, and Populations-at-Risk. These nine areas build upon a liberal arts base to provide social work know- ledge, values, skills, and supervised experience in generalist practice. These areas of study provide social work students with the necessary competencies to perform at the entry level of generalist social work practice. The curriculum consists of general education requirements, pre-requisites in the liberal arts and sciences, social work core (classroom and field) courses, and social work and social science electives.

REQUIRED SOCIAL WORK COURSES

SCWK 2133 Introduction to Social Work
SCWK 3193 Human Diversity and Social Work
PLSC 2003 American National Government
PSYC 2003 General Psychology
SOCI 2133 General Sociology
BIOL 1534 General Biology
SCWK 4093 Human Behavior and Social Environment I
SCWK 4153 Social Welfare Policy
COMM 1313 Communications
Statistics (SOCI, PSYC, STAT, etc.)
SCWK 4073 Social Work Research
SCWK 4333 Social Work Practice I
SCWK 4103 Human Behavior and Social Environment II
SCWK 4343 Social Work Practice II
SCWK 4733 Social Work Practice III
SCWK 4434 Social Work Internship I
SCWK 4412 Field Seminar I
SCWK 4444 Social Work Internship II
SCWK 4422 Field Seminar II
SCWK Elective Select from Electives List (3 hr)
SCWK Elective Select from Electives List (3 hr)
Upper-level Soc Sci (3 hr)
Upper-level Soc Sci (3 hr)

ADDITIONAL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 1013  WLIT 1113
ENGL 1023  WLIT 1123 or upper-level  WLIT
ENGL 3003 or 2013, Exam/grade HIST 1003
PHIL 2003 or  2103 HIST  1013
MATH 1203  FNAR ___
MATH 2183
MATH 2043 or 2053 or 2554 FNAR ___
FLAN 1003  Physical Science (4-8 hr)
FLAN 1013  Electives to complete total (124 hrs)
FLAN 2003
FLAN 2013

Social Work Electives Pre-Requisites/Restrictions

3163 On Death and Dying (Junior standing or consent)
3183 Elderly Citizen (None)
3233 Juvenile Delinquency (Junior standing or consent)
3533 Legal Aspects of Social (Work Junior standing or consent)
3633 Problems of Child Welfare (Junior standing or consent)
399V Independent Study (Consent)
4143 Addictions & The Family (None)
4233 Seminar: Child & Family Services (None)
4633 Info Tech & Human Services (SCWK 2133 or consent)
496V Honors (Consent )
405V Seminar: Special Topics in SCWK (Junior standing and consent )



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