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Social Work Major B.S.W.
Metropolitan State's social work program helps students acquire the values, knowledge and skills necessary to work with individuals and families to maintain their cultural identities while increasing their capacity to live and function successfully in two or more cultural environments. Students learn to work with communities to serve and nurture their members and to achieve a viable balance between community needs and available resources.
Requirements:
The social work program has four main components.
- 60 semester credits, including 40 general education and semester credits with a minimum of three credits in each of the following: psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science, human biology and racial/ethnic awareness, completed at Metropolitan State or another postsecondary institution prior to admission to the social work major;
- 32 credits (includes the prerequisite course, SOWK 109 Introduction to Social Work) in core curriculum required courses in addition to statistics;
- 14 credits of field practica including five credits in a community learning center in a community of color, five credits in a mainstream social work setting and four credits in field practice seminars;
- four credits in statistics;
- eight credits in liberal studies; and
- two credits in other electives.
Social Work Core Courses
- Social Work Practice (10 credits)
- SOWK 321 Social Work Practice I
- SOWK 522 Social Work Practice II
- Racial/Ethnic Analysis (4 credits)
- SOWK 341 Comparative Racial/Ethnic Analysis I
- SOWK 542 Comparative Racial/Ethnic Analysis II
- Social Policy (6 credits)
- SOWK 109 Introduction to Social Work
- SOWK 360 Social Welfare History and Policy
- Research (6 credits)
- SOWK 351 Social Research
- SOWK 552 Community Research and Advocacy
- Human Behavior in Social Environment (6 credits)
- SOWK 331 Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
- SOWK 332 Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
- Social Work Field Courses (14 credits)
- Field Practicum
- SOWK 391 Community Learning Center Practicum
- SOWK 591 Social Work Senior Practicum
- Field Seminar
- SOWK 381 Community Learning Center Seminar
- SOWK 582 Social Work Capstone Seminar
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