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Bachelor of Social Work (B.S.W)


Meredith College offers a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). The BSW is the only baccalaureate degree that prepares graduates for entry into professional social work practice and into MSW programs at the advanced standing level. The social work program provides studies in social policy, human behavior and social work practice with individuals, groups, organizations and communities.

Upon completion of the social work program, graduates will be well grounded in the liberal arts and the history, purpose and philosophy of the social work profession. Graduates will have the ability to think both locally and globally as they celebrate diversity and work to ensure conditions of social and economic justice for all persons.

Graduates of the social work program will demonstrate the ability to:

Degree Requirements:


Fifty-nine hours are required
to complete a major in social work. Students must enroll in three social work practice courses, a social work field practicum and a social work field practicum seminar. Field experience offers students a chance to work in a social agency four days a week for a semester, while attending class one day a week to support learning in the field.


Minor in Social Work

A Social Work minor allows the student who develops an interest in becoming a social worker when it is too late in her college program to complete a major. The minor allows a student to acquire baseline knowledge about the profession, which will assist her in considering whether to pursue a social work degree at a graduate level.

A minor in social work requires 19 hours of social work courses as follows: SWK 100, 200, 330, PSY 100, SOC 230 and one social work elective which must be approved by the Social Work Program Director. The minor in Social Work does not prepare students for professional social work practice. Students may declare a Social Work minor by completing a Declaration of Minor form.

Social Work Minor Course Requirements:

Program

Course #

Course name

Credit hrs

SWK

100

Introduction to Social Work

3

SWK

200

Human Diversity and Social Justice

3

SWK

330

Social Welfare Policy

3

PSY

100

Introduction to Psychology

3

SOC

230

Principles of Sociology

3

SWK

Elective

Choice of two of the following: SWK 350 Selected Topics in Social Work

4
_________

Total Credit Hours

19

 

 

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