Program: Social Work, Full-time Advanced Standing, MSW - Widener University

Apr 18, 2025

2019-2020 Graduate Catalog

Curriculum Sequence
Elective Requirements

Curriculum Sequence

Year One

Summer (Preceding Fall)

SW 502 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II 3 Credit(s)
SW 503 - Interpersonal Processes 3 Credit(s)
SW 600 - Foundations for Clinical Social Work Practice 3 Credit(s)

Fall

SW 630 - Clinical Social Work Practice With Individuals 3 Credit(s)
SW 633 - Clinical Social Work Practice With Families 3 Credit(s)
SW 636 - Organization and Program Development 3 Credit(s)
SW 650 - Field Instruction III 4 Credit(s)
Elective

Spring

SW 639 - Clinical Social Work Seminar 3 Credit(s)
SW 651 - Field Instruction IV
SW 664 - Treating Trauma 3 Credit(s)
Two electives

Elective Requirements

Students may fulfill elective requirements by taking social work electives or by taking approved electives in related disciplines.

Social Work Electives

*CWEL approved

SW 625 - Practice Evaluation 3 Credit(s)
SW 623 - Health & Mental Health Issues: Qualitative Approaches 3 Credit(s)
SW 624 - Social Work and the Aging: Research and Practice 3 Credit(s)
SW 625 - Program Evaluation 3 Credit(s)
SW 626 - Biographical Timeline 3 Credit(s) *
SW 627 - Social Work with Individual & Community Trauma 3 Credit(s)
SW 635 - Social Work Practice With Groups 3 Credit(s)
SW 642 - Social Work Practice With Children and Adolescents 3 Credit(s) *
SW 648 - Current Issues in Child Welfare Practice and Policy 3 Credit(s) *
SW 649 - Social Work Practice in Mental Health 3 Credit(s)
SW 655 - Social Work With People Who Have Intellectual and Developmental Disability 3 Credit(s)
SW 663 - Social Work Practice With Addicted Persons and Their Families 3 Credit(s) *
SW 667 - Brief Treatment 3 Credit(s)
SW 668 - Clinical Supervision 3 Credit(s)
SW 669 - Cognitive Behavioral Interventions 3 Credit(s)
SW 670 - Grief and Loss Across the Life Cycle 3 Credit(s)
SW 671 - Human Sexuality for the Social Work Professional 3 Credit(s)
SW 673 - Relational Perspectives On Clinical Social Work Practice 3 Credit(s)
SW 674 - Spirituality and Social Work 3 Credit(s)
SW 678 - Social and Cultural Issues of Gender: Clinical Implications 3 Credit(s)
SW 680 - Comparative Social Work and Social Welfare: International Study 3 Credit(s)
SW 681 - African Americans in Contemporary Society 3 Credit(s)
SW 683 - Social Work With Urban Youth 3 Credit(s)