The School of Social Work at Rutgers and the Princeton Theological Seminary offer an accelerated program in social work and ministry leading to a master of social work (M.S.W.) and master of divinity (M.Div.) The program is designed for students who expect to enter forms of ministry requiring competence in the disciplines of theology and social work.
The joint M.Div./M.S.W. program allows a student to complete both degrees in four years of full-time study. The first two years of study are spent exclusively at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In the third year, a joint degree student completes the requirements for the M.Div. while concurrently taking 18 credits of course work and field placement in the School of Social Work. In the summer between the third and fourth years, students are required to complete one course in the School of Social Work: 19:910:507 Psychopathology. In the fall of the fourth year, the student must complete the law module of 19:910:506 Diversity, Oppression, and the Legal Environment of Social Work. In the fourth and final year of the program, students take all their course work and field placements at the School of Social Work.
