Social Work Major

Requirements for the social work major:

• SWK 100 - Professional Development: Values, Ethics and Justice
• SWK 200 - Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare
• SWK 227 - Diversity in a Global Society
• SWK 335 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
• SWK 336 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
• SWK 352 - Contemporary Social Welfare Programs
• SWK 353 - Social Welfare Policy Analysis
• SWK 370 - Practice I: Micro-Practice
• SWK 460 - Social Work Practice - II: Mezzo-Practice
• SWK 461 - Social Work Practice III: Macro-Practice
• SWK 462 - Senior Field Instruction - I
• SWK 463 - Senior Field Seminar - I
• SWK 464 - Senior Field Instruction - II
• SWK 465 - Senior Field Seminar - II
• SOSCI 210 - Social Science Statistics (or elementary statistics)
• SOSCI 220 - Social Science Research Methods
• PSYCH 121 - General Psychology or PSYCH 120 Introduction to Psychology  
• SOC 115 - Principles of Sociology

• Electives:

• SWK 345 - Psychosocial Aspects of Aging
• SWK 490 - Interprofessional Cultural Competency for Health and Human Service Professionals
• SWK 491 - Individual Study
• SWK 493 - Selected Topics

Signature Learning Requirements for Social Work Major:

• First Year Seminar
• Reading and Writing 
• Oral Communication
• Ethics 
• Quantitative Reasoning 
• Fine Arts
• Social Science - (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
• Religion 
• Cultural Pluralism -  (Requirement fulfilled with Major)
• Natural Science - (Students must take six (6) credit hours of Natural Science (the combination of the Natural Science and Society requirement and the Laboratory Science requirement)
• Humanities 
• Global Systems 

See Signature Learning  Pathways for a complete listing of applicable cognate courses.