BU Now » MSW http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 School of Social Work adds online MSW program http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/05/03/school-of-social-work-adds-online-msw-program/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/05/03/school-of-social-work-adds-online-msw-program/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 15:33:20 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=9271 The Boston University School of Social Work has launched a new online Master of Social Work (MSW) program in Clinical Social Work Practice. Taught by the School’s nationally recognized faculty, the online program will initially enroll human service professionals with a minimum of two years of supervised experience.

The part-time program, which can be completed in eight consecutive semesters, consists of taking courses online, participating in a single, extended field internship within the student’s geographic area, and attending a one-time, four-day residency component on the BU campus.

“This program is an excellent addition to the fine programs we offer at the School of Social Work,” said Gail Steketee, Dean of the School of Social Work.  “It continues the School’s commitment to educate outstanding social work practitioners in the community and for the community.”

The program focuses on clinical practice with individuals, families, and groups, with an integrated curriculum that emphasizes ethical practice, and social and economic justice. Courses are delivered with both asynchronous and synchronous (real-time) components, with each course lasting seven weeks. The 65-credit program allows individuals to earn an MSW degree while continuing to live and work in their own communities.


]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/05/03/school-of-social-work-adds-online-msw-program/feed/ 0 “Reaching Out” Part Three: Connecting Social Workers with their Communities http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/01/26/reaching-out-part-three-bridging-social-workers-with-their-communities/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2011/01/26/reaching-out-part-three-bridging-social-workers-with-their-communities/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:53:50 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=7939 Part three of BU Today’s “Reaching Out” series that looks at how BU programs are helping immigrants and refugess in Boston highlights the School of Social Work’s (SSE) BRIDGE (Building Refugee and Immigrant Degrees for Graduate Education) progam.  An outgrowth of SSW’s Refugee and Immigrant Training Program, which began in the early 1990s to recruit immigrants for careers in social work, BRIDGE is a Master of Social Work (MSW) program designed to help recent immigrants serve their communities here. The program shepherds applicants from orientation to preadmission to study for an MSW and beyond to career development.

The series continues tomorrow with two parts. One will examine the School of Law’s (LAW) Asylum & Human Rights Clinic (AHR), where law students represent asylum seekers and others involved in immigration and humanitarian cases; the other will look at the interpreter certificate program at the University’s Center for Professional Education, which trains multilingual students in community, legal and medical interpreting.


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