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The graduate professional program prepares students for direct-service and leadership positions in the field of social welfare. It begins with a nine-hour foundation curriculum, built on a liberal arts base that has two goals: to provide students with the knowledge, values, and skills leading to an informed perspective on the broad profession and to prepare students for entry into the concentrations, which are interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration.
Coursework in human behavior, social policy, research, and social work practice makes up the foundation and introduces differential approaches to problem solving. In a field practicum, the student engages in carefully supervised social work practice in a human service setting.
Students build upon the foundation by choosing to specialize in interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration. Within either concentration students can elect to emphasize community practice. The second field practicum supports the advanced study of the concentration and takes place in a setting with a client population or in a field of practice that closely corresponds to career goals.
The 60-hour full-time and extended-study graduate curriculum is highly structured and sequential. In the 39-hour advanced-standing program, students attend two classes in each of the spring and summer sessions before commencing the specialization courses and field education in the fall and spring semesters.
Full-time and extended-study students have two field placements, in different agencies, and advanced-standing students have one field placement in the area of concentration. All field placements take place in fall and spring semesters. Students from the three programs--full time, extended study, and advanced standing--choose from the two concentrations of study: interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration.
The graduate professional program prepares students for direct-service and leadership positions in the field of social welfare. It begins with a nine-hour foundation curriculum, built on a liberal arts base that has two goals: to provide students with the knowledge, values, and skills leading to an informed perspective on the broad profession and to prepare students for entry into the concentrations, which are interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration.
Coursework in human behavior, social policy, research, and social work practice makes up the foundation and introduces differential approaches to problem solving. In a field practicum, the student engages in carefully supervised social work practice in a human service setting.
Students build upon the foundation by choosing to specialize in interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration. Within either concentration students can elect to emphasize community practice. The second field practicum supports the advanced study of the concentration and takes place in a setting with a client population or in a field of practice that closely corresponds to career goals.
The 60-hour full-time and extended-study graduate curriculum is highly structured and sequential. In the 39-hour advanced-standing program, students attend two classes in each of the spring and summer sessions before commencing the specialization courses and field education in the fall and spring semesters.
Full-time and extended-study students have two field placements, in different agencies, and advanced-standing students have one field placement in the area of concentration. All field placements take place in fall and spring semesters. Students from the three programs--full time, extended study, and advanced standing--choose from the two concentrations of study: interpersonal practice or policy, planning, and administration.