Baccalaureate Social Work Program, School of Social Work
Website:
https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/academics/bachelor-arts-social-work-basw
Interim Dean: Richard L. Edwards, BA, Augustana College; MA, Chicago; Ph.D., SUNY, Albany
Assistant Dean of Bachelor's Programs, Director of B.A. in Social Work Program New Brunswick: V. DuWayne Battle, B.A., Barton College; M.Div., D.Min., Southeastern Theological Seminary; M.S.W., Ph.D., Rutgers
The major in social work is accredited by the Council on
Social Work Education. Students who successfully complete the program receive a
bachelor of arts degree from the School of Arts and Sciences. The program
prepares students for beginning-level generalist social work practice. The
focus for practice addresses work with special populations including the poor,
the oppressed, and other at-risk groups. Participants are expected to acquire
the knowledge base, professional ethics, values, and skills to work effectively
within individual, family, group, organizational, and community levels of
practice. The program also prepares students for graduate study in social work
and related fields.
Students apply to the major in the spring semester of their
sophomore year, as they near the completion of approximately 60 credits of
coursework. If accepted, students are admitted
to begin the major courses in the fall semester at the beginning of their
junior year. A cumulative grade-point
average of 3.0 is required for acceptance into the program. Information and the
application can be found at: https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/admissions/bachelor-arts-social-work-basw.
Following acceptance into the program, all social work
majors are assigned a faculty adviser within the School of Social Work. To
continue in this major, students must maintain a 3.0 grade-point average in
social work courses. In order to graduate, students must have grades of C or
better with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 in all social work
core-content courses and a 2.0 cumulative grade-point average in the courses
making up the liberal arts foundation.
