PhD in Social Work Program

• SSW SW 905: Contemporary Social Problems: A Social Work Perspective
  SW905 is meant to act as an informal capstone experience for social work doctoral students. The class is to be taken in the fourth semester of full time study after students have completed their foundational learning at the School of Social Work as well as their methods and specialization courses in the greater University community. Given the topical and methodological diversity of the social work academic enterprise and the accompanying diversity in student research interests, the course has two over-arching aims: 1. To recognize the unique contributions of social work empirical research to the understanding of contemporary social problems; 2. To have students locate their own nascent research agendas among the diverse methods and topics that are currently characteristic of the field.
• SSW SW 908: Teaching Seminar
  This required, 4-credit course will orient students to teaching methods and skills specific to course instruction in substantive areas required in accredited social work programs at the master's level. Students will explore diverse pedagogical frameworks for teaching social work clinical and community practice, policy, human behavior, and research. The course will emphasize effective teaching grounded in core social work values of social justice and respect for human diversity.
• SSW SW 909: Teaching Practicum
  Students will complete a teaching practicum with an instructor of record for a traditional in person MSW classroom course. Course assignments will be made according to the needs and interests of the student in collaboration with faculty advisors and course instructors with approval from the doctoral committee and relevant departments.