Web Site: http://socialwork.rutgers.edu/index.php
Major requirements in social work can be completed only through daytime attendance.
Baccalaureate Social Work Program, School of Social Work
Dean: Richard L. Edwards, B.A., Augustana College; M.A., Chicago; Ph.D., SUNY (Albany)
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs: Antoinette Farmer, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Pittsburgh
Director of B.A. Social Work Program: V. DuWayne Battle
Associate Professor:
Raymond Sanchez Mayers, B.A., CUNY (Baruch College); M.S.W., Barry; Ph.D., Brandeis
Assistant Professor:
Judith L.M. McCoyd, B.S., Albright College; M.S.W., Columbia; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Assistant Instructors:
V. DuWayne Battle, B.A., Barton College; M.Div., D.D., Southeastern Seminary, M.S.W., Ph.D., Rutgers
Fontaine Fulghum, B.A., Agnes Scott College; M.S.W., Tulane; A.B.D., Bryn Mawr College
Director of Field Education--Southern Region:
Valerie Smith Stephens, B.A., Douglass; M.S.W., Ed.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 College 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. Students 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 are admitted to the major at the beginning
of their junior year, after having completed approximately 60 credits
of course work. Students should plan to apply to the major early in the
spring term of their sophomore year. A cumulative grade-point average
of 3.0 is required for acceptance into the program. Inquiries and
requests for applications should be directed to the director of the
social work program.
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 and a 3.0 cumulative
grade-point average in all social work core-content courses, and a 2.0
cumulative grade-point average in the courses making up the liberal
arts foundation.
Prerequisites
50:120:105 The Facts of Life (3)
50:830:101 Introduction to Psychology (3)
50:830:250 Statistics for Social Science (3) or 50:960:183 Elementary Applied Statistics (3)
50:920:207 Introduction to Sociology (3)
Two
additional courses, one from each of two areas chosen from the
following: art, communications/speech, history, literature, music,
philosophy, and theater.