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The School of Social Work offers a master of social work (M.S.W.) in two formats: the 2-year, 60-credit program for individuals who do not hold a bachelor's degree in social work; and the Advanced Standing Program for individuals who have earned a bachelor's degree in social work from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. Both graduate programs prepare students for advanced social work practice and for creative, responsible roles in the social work field. The programs are fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
The social work program is based on the concept of ecological systems, which holds that the fundamental focus of social work practice is on the transactions of people and their environments and the constant state of reciprocity in which each shapes the other. Social work intervention aims to promote the progressive forces and minimize the regressive forces in those transactions.
Students in the School of Social Work are readied for the challenge of professional practice as they develop knowledge of people and their environments and strategies for changing each and helping each change the other; and through professionally directed practice experience in social work settings.
More than 200 social welfare and health agencies from across 27 counties in upstate New York provide graduate field instruction opportunities. Graduate students in the 60-credit program complete 900 hours of field placement experience concurrent with their academic work; students in the Advanced Standing Program complete 450 hours. In both cases, classroom and field learning are integrated.
Concurrent with the M.S.W. degree, a student may meet the requirements for a New York State approved Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s Studies, Conflict Studies, Health Services Management and Policy, or Gerontology. Graduate students also may arrange to spend a semester studying social work abroad in Madrid or Strasbourg through the Syracuse University Division of International Programs Abroad.
2007 Fall Class Schedule
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