Social Work - Saint Leo University

Social Work from Saint Leo University is a Campus Master Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Saint Leo University?s Master of Social Work program is an innovative full-time online program. Classes are attended via webcam and are presented online. This technology allows for face to face interaction in the convenience of your own home. Given this innovation of a full-time graduate online program, students should enter the program knowing that they will have to meet for weekly classes via webcam, be available for normal daytime work hours for internships, attend one weekend seminar on University campus in the summer, and adjust their lives to meet the demands and expectations of the Saint Leo University MSW full-time online program. Please review the entire program curriculum and all MSW Program information on the Saint Leo website to make an informed decision regarding meeting the demands of the program. The Master of Social Work Program mission is to prepare graduate students for professional advanced practice in becoming leaders through the provision of social work services that promote social and economic justice, and human rights locally, nationally and globally. The program further expects graduates to contribute to the empowerment of people/groups that experience discrimination and oppression. Graduates are prepared to be leaders in advanced clinical social work practice serving all areas of the population, in particular the increasing aging population, military personnel and the workforce population. The MSW program is a two year 62 credit hour program. The 2-year program starts each fall semester. In order to begin this program, you must apply no later than July 1st of each year. If you miss this deadline, you will have to wait until the next fall to begin the program. A one year 32 credit hour advanced standing program will be offered to those who have completed a BSW degree from a CSWE accredited program within the last five years. The one year Advanced Standing program starts each summer. In order to begin the Advanced Standing program, you must apply no later than March 15th each year. If you miss this deadline, you will have to wait until the next summer to begin this program. A three year program will begin in Fall 2011. A three year program consists of two classes per 16 weeks with one semester offering 3 courses. This program is for those who cannot meet the curriculum course outline of the two year program. The 3 year program starts each fall. In order to begin this program, you must apply no later than July 1st of each year. If you miss this deadline, you will have to wait until the next fall to begin this program. Attendance at a one weekend on-campus seminar is required of all students enrolled in the MSW program. The first year of the program is the 30 credit hour foundation year. The second year is the concentration year and it is 32 credit hours. We offer the Advanced Clinical Practice concentration. The advanced standing students will complete only the advanced clinical practice concentration year curriculum. In the three year program, the foundation year is the first year and the first two semesters of the second year. The advanced clinical concentration year begins in the second year and continues through the end of the third year. All programs are sequential and must be taken according to the curriculum outline for each program. The Council on Social Work Education?s Commission on Accreditation affirmed Saint Leo University?s MSW program Candidacy status at its June 2010 meeting. As is the case with all new MSW programs, Saint Leo University?s MSW program must complete a 3 year candidacy period prior to receiving full accreditation. Achieving and maintaining Candidacy status indicates that the program is on the path to accreditation and assures our students that they will, according to CSWE policy, be considered to have graduated from an accredited program once the program achieves accreditation. Full accreditation will be finalized after the first class has graduated. Once full accreditation has been completed the first classes will be recognized as having fully accredited MSW degrees. Those who enter the program during candidacy can be eligible to take the clinical social work licensure exam. Each student is responsible for checking with his/her state licensing board to see if this program meets the educational criteria required to sit for the licensing exam is his/her state. View more details on Saint Leo University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.