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Dual-Degree Program in Social Work (MSW/MSI)
The dual-degree program is offered by the School of Social Work → and the School of Information. The 2.5-year program leads to the simultaneous award of both a Master of Social Work and a Master of Science in Information. You must meet both schools' admission requirements.
The goal of the MSW/MSI dual-degree program is to provide academic training and practical experience to improve social workersÕ effectiveness when dealing with information issues and to extend the reach of information specialists in furthering the public good. When enrolled in the dual-degree program, you may reduce by 24 the number of credit hours you would need if you were pursuing the two programs separately.
Social workers and other human service workers routinely encounter automated systems in their work. Social work students learn to address practices that have given rise to the digital divide and to empower diverse communities to engage in community decision-making.
Digital information technologies are changing how service-minded individuals engage in work and social transformation. SI provides students with skills to use information tools to create, organize, manage, access, use, store, and preserve information. SI prepares graduates to apply new techniques in the service of public goals.
Your career options include program development or evaluation for a community technology center, technology for strategic planning, program evaluation for nonprofit social service organizations or agencies, online advocacy, community outreach, and many more.
The dual-degree program enables information specialists/social workers to serve clients in a range of settings more effectively, focusing on their clients' organizational and community goals, as well as their personal goals.
Program Details
To be eligible for the MSW/MSI program, you must apply for and be admitted to each program individually. Applications may be submitted to the programs concurrently, or students may apply to the second program after enrolling in the first.
Dual-Degree Requirements
The dual-degree program requires 90 credits. You may concentrate in any macro method and any practice area in Social Work. At SI, you follow a self-tailored program.
The foundation requirements for both programs are distinct and serve as prerequisites for advanced coursework; therefore, all dual-degree students are required to take all foundation courses in both disciplines.
Students in the MSW program must enroll in field instruction for 15 credits. For SI students, six credits of MSW advanced field instruction will count as their practical engagement credit.
Master of Science in Information
The MSI requires 39 SI credits, including 12 credits in Foundations courses:
- SI 501: The Use of Information (3)
- SI 502: Choice and Learning (3)
- SI 503: Search and Retrieval (3)
- SI 504: Social Systems and Collections (3)
The remaining 27 MSI credits will be selected by you in conjunction with a faculty advisor.
Master of Social Work
The MSW portion of the degree requires 51 SW credits, including 18 credits of foundations courses:
- SW 500: Human Differences, Social Relationships, Well-being, and Change (3)
- SW 502: Organizational, Community, and Societal Structures and Processes (3)
- SW 515: Field Instruction
- SW 531: Field Instruction
- SW 521: Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups (3)
- SW 522: Basic Social Work Research (3)
- SW 530: Introduction to Social Welfare Policy and Services (3)
- SW 560: Management, Community Organization, and Policy Practice (3)
- SW 683: Evaluation in Social Work (3)
- SW 691: Advanced field instruction
- SW HBSE: Practice Area Concentration
- SW SWPS: Practice Area Concentration
Additionally, SW students take 18 credits of advanced courses and 15 field instruction credits.
Sample Schedule
Below is one example of the path you might take through the MSW/MSI dual-degree program. Other schedules are possible.
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Year 1
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SW 560: Management, Community Organization, and Policy Practice (3)
- SW 521: Interpersonal Practice with Individuals, Families, and Small Groups (3)
- SW 500: Human Differences, Social Relationships, Well-being, and Change (3)
- SW 502: Organizational, Community, and Societal Structures and Processes (3)
- SW 530: Introduction to Social Welfare Policy and Services (3)
- (15 credits)
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- SW 515/531: Field Instruction (3)
- SW HBSE: Practice Area Concentration (3)
- SW SWPS: Practice Area Concentration (3)
- SI 502: Choice and Learning (3)
- SI 503: Search and Retrieval (3)
- (15 credits)
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Spring/Summer
- SW 691: Advanced field instruction (8)
- SW Methods (3)
- SW Methods (3)
- (14 credits)
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Year 2
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- SW 691: Advanced field instruction (4)
- SI 501: The Use of Information (3)
- SI 504: Social Systems and Collections (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- (16 credits)
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- SW 522: Basic Social Work Research (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- (15 credits)
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Year 3
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- SW 683: Evaluation in Social Work (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- SI Elective (3)
- (15 credits)
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Program requirements on this page are current for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Last updated: Mar 28, 2006
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