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Curriculum
The Wingate MSW curriculum is designed so that traditional students can graduate in as little as two years, and advanced standing students (students who have graduated from a baccalaureate program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education) can graduate in as little as one year. The curriculum is also organized in a way that allows for part-time students to complete the degree program at their own pace. The online format is broken down into “half-semester” (8-week) courses.
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First Year: Generalist Practice Level
Second Year: Specialized Practice Level
Fall Semester (12 credit hours)
Spring Semester (12 Credit Hours)
MSW 600 – Generalist Work: The Professional Social Worker (3)
MSW 604 – Generalist Social Work: Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations (3)
MSW 601 – Generalist Social Work: Foundations of the Social Work Profession (3)
MSW 620 – Generalist Social Work: Practicum I (3)
MSW 602 – Generalist Social Work: Social Problems & Social Welfare Programs (3)
MSW 605 – Generalist Social Work Practicum: Social Work Practice in Professional Settings (3)
MSW 603 – Generalist Social Work: Evidence-Informed & Ethical Social Work (3)
MSW 621 – Generalist Social Work Practicum II (3)
Fall Semester (12 credit hours)
Spring Semester (12 credit hours)
MSW 651 - Transformative Social Work Practice I: Engagement within the Beloved Community (3)
MSW 653 - Transformative Social Work Practice III: Intervention within the Beloved Community
MSW 652 - Transformative Social Work Practice II: Assessment within the Beloved Community (3)
MSW 654 - Transformative Social Work Practice IV: Evaluation within the Beloved Community
MSW 690 - Transformative Social Work Capstone Project I: Engagement and Assessment in the Beloved Community (3)
MSW 691 - Transformative Social Work Capstone Project II: Intervention and Evaluation in the Beloved Community (3)
MSW 670 - Transformative Social Work Practicum I: Engagement and Assessment in the Beloved Community (3)
MSW 671 - Transformative Social Work Practicum II: Intervention and Evaluation (3)
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MSW 600 - Generalist Social Work: The Professional Social Worker
MSW 601 - Generalist Social Work: Foundations of the Social Work Profession
MSW 602 - Generalist Social Work: Social Problems and Social Welfare Programs
MSW 603 - Generalist Social Work: Evidence-Informed and Ethical Social Work
MSW 604 - Generalist Social Work: Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations
MSW 605 - Generalist Social Work: Social Work Practice in Professional Settings
MSW 620 - Generalist Social Work Practicum I
MSW 621 - Generalist Social Work Practicum II
This course introduces student to the knowledge, values, and skills essential to becoming a professional social worker. Student will explore the knowledge and values connected to ethical standards and becoming a professional social worker. Students will learn and apply written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills that are congruent to becoming a competent, ethical, and professional social worker. Finally, students will learn about international, national, and discipline-specific professional organizations relevant to the social work profession.
Prerequisite: None
Credit: 3 hours
This course introduces student to the knowledge, values, and skills that shape the social work profession. These include an exploration of the historical foundations and social welfare policies that have shaped social work, theories of human behavior in the social environment that shape the profession, and professional codes of ethics. In addition, this course introduces students to the knowledge, values, and skills connected to the profession’s purpose of promoting human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice and to the profession’s value of engaging anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in practice.
Prerequisite: None
Credit: 3 hours
This course prepares students to conceptualize and analyze social problems through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Students develop knowledge and skills in analyzing how existing social welfare policies guide the formation of social welfare programs. In this course students will develop the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes need to critically analyze programs through the lens of human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Finally, the course prepares students with the tools needed to advocate for policy practice that fosters anti-oppressive and anti-racist social welfare programs.
Prerequisite: None
Credit: 3 hours
This course will introduce students to the ways in which the social work profession is built upon evidence-informed and ethical scientific inquiry. Students will learn about the fundamentals of ethically-sound research and how to evaluate, develop, and apply ethical standards to evidence-based practice. Students will develop skills in becoming critical consumers of practice-informed research and ethics through the lens of anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Students will also learn how to apply research-informed practices in ways that advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Prerequisite: MSW 600 and 601 (or approval by the MSW Program Director)
Credit: 3 hours
This course is designed to prepare students for social work practice with diverse populations, including individuals, families, and communities. This course focuses on the application of professional behavior and ethics; human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice; anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; policy practice; and research-informed practice and practice-informed research to social work practice with diverse populations. Included in this course is an emphasis on how engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation of social work practice with diverse populations. Finally, in this course students will learn how to apply theoretical perspectives in human behavior in the social environment to social work practice with diverse individuals, families, and communities.
Prerequisite: MSW 600, 601, 602, 603 (or approval by the MSW Program Director)
Credit: 3 hours
This course is designed to prepare students for social work practice in professional settings, including work with groups and organizations. This course focuses on the application of professional behavior and ethics; human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice; anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; policy practice; and research-informed practice and practice-informed research to social work practice with diverse populations. Included in this course is an emphasis on how engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation of social work practice within professional settings. Finally, in this course students will learn how to apply theoretical perspectives in human behavior in the social environment to social work practice with groups and organizations.
Prerequisite: MSW 600, 601, 602, 603 (or approval by the MSW Program Director)
Credit: 3 hours
This is the first of two practicum experiences in the generalist social work curriculum. Students will be placed in a social work-related setting and will complete 200 hours of practice experience. While students will gain experience across systems levels, this first of two practicum experiences focuses heavily on preparing students to be competent social workers in applying theoretical perspectives to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with diverse individuals, families, and communities. In this practicum, students are given real-world opportunities to apply professional behavior and ethics; human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice; anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; policy practice; and research-informed practice and practice-informed research to social work practice with diverse populations.
Prerequisite: MSW 600, 601, 602 and 603
Credit: 3 hours
This is the second of two practicum experiences in the generalist social work curriculum. Students will continue placement in a social work-related setting and will complete an additional 200 hours of practice experience. The second of two practicum experiences is designed to continue providing students with opportunities to work across systems levels but will be heavily on preparing students to be competent social workers in applying theoretical perspectives to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with groups and organizations. In this practicum, students are given real-world opportunities to develop competencies in the application of professional behavior and ethics; human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice; anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion; policy practice; and research-informed practice and practice-informed research to social work in professional settings.
Prerequisite: MSW 600, 601, 602 and 603
MSW 651 - Transformative Social Work Practice I: Engagement within the Beloved Community
MSW 652 - Transformative Social Work Practice II: Assessment within the Beloved Community
MSW 653 - Transformative Social Work Practice III: Intervention within the Beloved Community
MSW 654 - Transformative Social Work Practice IV: Evaluation within the Beloved Community
MSW 670 - Transformative Social Work Practicum I: Engagement and Assessment in the Beloved Community
MSW 671 - Transformative Social Work Practicum II: Intervention and Evaluation in the Beloved Community
MSW 690 - Transformative Social Work Capstone Project I: Engagement and Assessment in the Beloved Community
MSW 691 - Transformative Social Work Capstone Project II: Intervention and Evaluation in the Beloved Community
In this course, students will be building upon the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes gained in the generalist practice curriculum that are needed to engage with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities through ethical and professional social work. In mastering this competency, students will learn how to connect practice-informed research and research-informed practice to engagement across client systems in ways that align with anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through the lens of transformative social work, students will connect these concepts to engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Prerequisites
: MSW 604, 605, 620 and 621 or advanced standing status
Credit: 3 hours
In this course, students build upon the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes gained in the generalist practice curriculum that are needed to assess client systems through ethical and professional social work. Students will learn how to connect practice-informed research and research-informed practice to assessment with client systems in ways that align with anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through the lens of transformative social work, students will connect these concepts to assessment with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Prerequisites: MSW 604, 605, 620, 621 or advanced standing status
Credit: 3 hours
In this course, students will be building upon the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes gained in the generalist practice curriculum that are needed to intervene with client systems through ethical and professional social work. In mastering this competency, students will learn how to connect the findings of scientific inquiry as well as lessons learned from engagement and assessment to interventions with client systems from the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, students will critically analyze the extent to which existing policies and subsequent programs promote human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Furthermore, students will learn how, through transformative social work, interventions across client systems are seamlessly connected to professional standards, social justice, ADEI, scientific inquiry, policy practice, engagement, and assessment .
Prerequisites: MSW 651 and 652
Credit: 3 hours
In this course, students will be building upon the knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive affective processes gained in the generalist practice curriculum that are needed to evaluate practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities through ethical and professional social work. In mastering this competency, students will learn how to connect evaluation of practice to the findings of scientific inquiry as well as lessons learned from engagement, assessment, and intervention with client systems from the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Additionally, students will critically analyze the extent to which policies intersect with the evaluation of interventions designed to promote human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Furthermore, students will learn how evaluation of transformative social work practice is seamlessly connected to professional standards, social justice, ADEI, scientific inquiry, policy practice, engagement, assessment, and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Prerequisites: MSW 651 and 652
Credit: 3 hours
In the first semester of the specialized practice practicum (250 hours total), students will focus on engagement and assessment across client systems. Will apply knowledge and values connected to demonstrating skills and cognitive affective processes needed for professional and ethical practice through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. While students in the first semester of the specialized practicum are encouraged to also explore additional components of transformative social work, the focus will be on demonstrating mastery of components of the specialized curriculum that connect with engagement and assessment in the beloved community.
Prerequisites: MSW 604, 605, 620 and 621 or advanced standing status
Credit: 3 hours
In the second semester of the specialized practicum (250 hours total), students will draw upon  the foundations of the generalist practice curriculum with a focus on intervention and evaluation of client systems. Students will apply research-informed practice and practice-informed research related to professional behaviors and ethics essential for intervention and evaluation congruent with anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Students will critically analyze existing policies connected to the host practicum agency, and the extent to which they promote human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Furthermore, students will demonstrate how to select and apply intervention and evaluation strategies in the context of the host agency that are seamlessly connected to previous lessons learned in engagement and assessment and that advance social, racial, economic, and environmental justice through the results of scientific inquiry and policy practice. At the end of the second semester of the specialized practice practicum, students should be able to demonstrate the interconnection of all nine competencies within the framework of transformative social work in the beloved community.
Prerequisite: MSW 670
Credit: 3 hours
This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in MSW 651 (Transformative Social Work Practice I: Engagement in the Beloved Community) and MSW 652 (Transformative Social Work Practice II: Assessment in the Beloved Community). Using a case-based approach, this course will provide students with an opportunity to connect the foundations social work to engagement and assessment with diverse populations (individuals, families, and groups) and through professional settings (organizations and groups). This is the first of two Transformative Social Work Capstone Projects within the specialized practice curriculum and is designed for students to apply the practice of transformative social work to engagement and assessment of the beloved community.
Prerequisites: MSW 651 and 652
Credit: 3 hours
This is the second part of the Capstone experience and provides students with the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in MSW 653 (Transformative Social Work Practice I: Intervention in the Beloved Community) and MSW 654 (Transformative Social Work Practice I: Evaluation in the Beloved Community) and builds on MSW 690 (Transformative Social Work Capstone Project I: Engagement and Assessment in the Beloved Community). Using a case-based approach, this course will provide students with an opportunity to connect the foundations social work to intervention and evaluation with diverse populations (individuals, families, and groups) and through professional settings (organizations and groups). This is the second of two Transformative Social Work Capstone Projects within the specialized practice curriculum and is designed for students to develop strategies for intervention and evaluation with diverse populations (individuals, families, and communities) and professional settings (organizations and groups) identified in the first Capstone course.
Prerequisites: MSW 653 and 654
Credit: 3 hours
Questions?
Wendy Sellers, PhD, MSW, MA
Founding Director of Social Work Program
(704) 233-6140
w.sellers@wingate.edu