4-Year Student Plan

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Note: For students entering SOWK 441, Practice I in Fall of 2006-07 or later

*=General Education

++=Permission required

First Year

First year general education electives should include English 101-102 and the rest should be distributed across the colleges, bearing in mind that most of the social work foundation courses (e.g., Sociology, Biology, etc.) and two of the social work introductory courses (SOWK-190 & SOWK-214) also meet general education requirements. These courses can be taken either semester of the first year. Please work closely with your SOWK advisor!

First Semester

• SOC 101 – Intro to Soc (3) *
• BIOL 100 – Our Nat World (4) *
• Gen Ed Electives (9) *

Second Semester

• SOWK 190 – Social Welfare Services (3) *
• Gen Ed Electives (13) *

Second Year

By the end of the second year, students should have completed their general education courses and their foundation courses for the major. These courses can be taken either semester of the second year.

Either Semester

• SOWK 210 – Intro to Social Work (3)
• Gen Ed Electives (13) *

Either Semester

• SOWK 214 – Comm Social Svc Proj (3)
• POL 111 – US Govt (3) *
• ECON 100 – Intro to Economics (3) *
• KSP 235 – Human Devel (3) *
• ETHN 100 – Amer Racial Minorities (3) *
• Gen Ed Elective (3) *

Third Year

During the first semester of the third year students will apply for formal admission to the major — those accepted will proceed on immediately with the Practice sequence and the senior year Practicum.

First Semester

• SOWK 305 – Hum Behavior (3)
• SOWK 312 – Junior Field Experience (5) ++
• Statistics Requirement (3-4)
• Electives (3-4)

• Apply to the Major this Term

Your are admitted to the major

Second Semester

• SOWK 441 – Practice I (4) ++
• SOWK 412 – Soc Welf Issues & Policy (3)
• SOWK 4xx – Elective (3)
• Electives (6)

Fourth Year

The required SOWK-Elective can be taken either at the end of the third year or the beginning of the fourth year. Students may take more than one of the 400-level SOWK electives.

First Semester

• SOWK 443 – Practice II (4) ++
• SOWK 445 – Practice III (3) ++
• SOWK 469 – Appl SOWK Research (3)
• SOWK 4xx – Electives (3)
• Elective (4)
• (Apply for Practicum)

Second Semester

• SOWK 447 – Practice IV (3) ++
• SOWK 455 – Practicum (10) ++
• SOWK 450 – Integrative Seminar (2) ++