Social Work - MSW
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About this Degree
Program Contacts:
Statewide programs: Chelsey Spears chelsey.spears@usu.edu
Logan programs: Morgan Walton morgan.walton@usu.edu
The MSW curriculum consists of course and field work designed to prepare students for advanced generalist practice with systems of all sizes with particular emphasis on advanced direct practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities. The curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts and integrates content on professional values and ethics, diversity, populations-at-risk and social and economic justice. Also included are the professional foundation areas of human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and services, social work practice, social work research, and field education.
Social work graduates find meaningful careers working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in a wide range of settings like schools, hospitals, prisons, and community mental health centers. Generalist social workers view clients and client systems from a strengths perspective and work to empower them to realize their full potential. Using an anti-oppressive, professional problem-solving process, social workers engage, assess, broker services, advocate, counsel, educate, and organize with and on behalf of clients and client systems.
Students with an undergraduate degree in Social Work are eligible for the Advanced Standing program while students with an undergraduate degree from any other field are eligible for the Traditional program. Each program is offered on a full-time and part-time basis.
USU’s Social Work programs are accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and consequently meet licensure requirements in all 50 states. States differ in their licensing processes and students are encouraged to become familiar with these processes when pursuing licensure in a particular state.
Admission Requirements
Advanced Standing Program:
A bachelor's degree in social work that will be completed before matriculation in the MSW program
A 3.0 or higher GPA for most recent 60 semester or 90 quarter credits, and SW GPA of 3.3 or higher
Earned "B" or higher in each undergraduate SW course attempted
Additional admission requirements can be found on the USU School of Graduate Studies website (gradschool.usu.edu/admissions/policies) and the program website (https://artsci.usu.edu/social-work/students/msw-program-options/).
Traditional Program:
A bachelor's degree in any field that will be completed before matriculation in the degree program
A 3.0 or higher GPA for most recent 60 semester or 90 quarter credits
Completion of a quantitative course (research or statistics) and intro to social/behavioral (science) course.
Additional admission requirements can be found on the USU School of Graduate Studies website (gradschool.usu.edu/admissions/policies) and the program website (https://artsci.usu.edu/social-work/students/msw-program-options/).
