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Dec 26, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Social Work Minor
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The Minor in Social Work will provide students with an introduction to the social work profession and major U.S. social welfare programs. Students will be exposed to the professional values, ethics, fields of practice, and settings in which social workers are employed and develop basic helping skills. The minor provides an overview of the field of social work, with a particular focus on policy and practice issues relevant to vulnerable and marginalized populations and communities. A body of courses that will supplement and/or enhance students’ related major field of study (e.g., law, psychology, sociology, public health, education, gender studies, African American studies) are included in this minor. A minor in social work can be a valuable addition to an undergraduate degree, regardless of the major. It will provide a solid foundation in human behavior, social systems, improved interpersonal skills for building relationships and working with diverse populations, and intervention strategies.
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Admission Requirements
Students are required to have a minimum 2.0 overall GPA. There are no prerequisite course requirements for enrollment in the minor. Students are encouraged to have a declared major. By doing so, coursework in the minor will be more effectively focused.
Course Requirements
The minor consists of 18 credit hours (6 courses) including 9 hours of required coursework and 9 hours of electives.
Social Work Core (9 credits)
Social Work Elective: One course (3 credits)
Upper Division Electives: Two courses (6 credits)
Total Credits Required for Minor (18 credits)
Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This chart should not be used for financial aid purposes.
Academic Requirements
Students are required to have a minimum 2.0 overall GPA.
Learning Outcomes
Upon graduation with a minor in Social Work students will be able to:
- Identify key social work values, knowledge, principles, and skills within an ethical framework as defined in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics;
- Define the dimensions of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and describe basic principles of social and economic justice and antiracism;
- Describe elements of a helping relationship and the helping process within a trauma-informed and human rights framework;
- Define the purpose of social welfare policy and identify and describe key social welfare programs and their intent;
- Understand how social policy impacts social work service and service delivery and the differential impact of these barriers on people at various social locations (race, ethnicity, gender, class, ability, sexual orientation, immigration status);
- Describe the major theoretical paradigms, conceptual frameworks, and models that the social work profession utilizes to understand individuals, groups, and communities;
- Consider how human behavior and development across the life span at diverse social locations are impacted by poverty, inequality, oppression, racial inequities, exposure and vulnerability to trauma, and violations of human rights;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the numerous fields of practice in which social workers perform their functions, and roles that social workers fulfill.
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