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Social Work 910 (SSW-U)

Social Work 910 (SSW-U)
Major Requirements
Study Abroad
B.A. in Social Work Program Goals
Courses

SOCIAL WORK 910


Baccalaureate Social Work Program, School of Social Work

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Dean: George Leibowitz, Dean and Distinguished Professor; M.S.W., Denver; Ph.D., Denver

Assistant Dean: V. DuWayne Battle, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education, Teaching Professor, and Director of B.A. in Social Work Program, New Brunswick; Ph.D, M.S.W., Rutgers; D.Min., M.Div., Southeastern Theological Seminary

The major in social work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. Students who successfully complete the program receive a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Arts and Sciences. The program prepares students for beginning-level generalist social work practice. The focus for practice addresses social work with individuals and families including the poor, the oppressed, and other marginalized groups. Participants are expected to acquire the knowledge, values, skills, and professional ethics to work effectively within individual, family, group, organizational, and community levels of practice. The program also prepares students for graduate study in social work and related fields.

Students typically apply to the major in the spring semester of their sophomore year, as they near the completion of approximately 60 credits of coursework. If accepted, students are admitted and start the major courses in the fall semester at the beginning of their junior year. Students transferring into Rutgers in the middle of the academic year may begin the major in the spring semester of the junior year. A cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 is required for acceptance into the program. Information and the application can be found here.

Following acceptance into the program, all social work majors are assigned a faculty advisor within the School of Social Work. To continue in this major, students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average in social work courses. In order to graduate, students must have grades of C or better with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 in all social work core-content courses and a 2.0 cumulative grade-point average in the courses making up the liberal arts foundation.