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Career possibilities
- Addictions treatment counselor
- After school program facilitator
- Case worker
- Child welfare/children’s services worker
- Criminal justice/corrections specialist
- Health care social worker
- Mental health or crisis response intake worker
- Policy advocate
- Policy and planning specialist
- Prisons and correctional facilities social worker
- Probation officer
- Research analyst
- Youth mentor
Career options with additional education or experience
- Executive director of a social service agency
- Forensic social worker
- Hospice social worker
- International social worker
- Mental health social worker
- Occupational social worker
- Policy analyst
- Private practice therapist
- Program manager
- School social worker
FIELD EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
Field placements in social service agencies working with individuals, families, and groups are an integral part of the learning experience and a central component of the BSW education. Internships prepare you for your career by letting you work with people and groups. You will be required to complete one field placement during the seventh and eighth semesters of studies. Through this experience, you will gain an understanding and recognition of what it means to be a professional social worker.
* The program will seek precandidacy status and then initial accreditation through the Council on Social Work Education, a process that should be completed within approximately three and a half years. Prior to that, students will be permitted to take courses in the program and declare social work as a major.