Full Time

Full Time Enrollment Expectations

Full-time enrollment is defined by registration as 30 semester hours total during consecutive Fall, Spring and Summer terms or as 30 semester hours total during consecutive Fall and Spring terms.

Students enrolled full-time are urged in strongest terms against attempting to also work full-time.  Full-time program enrollment requires intensive involvement normally not possible with other extensive responsibilities. While the program attempts to be sensitive to the demands of adult students, there is a limit to the program adjustments that can be made on the basis of work responsibilities outside the program.

The most common path to accomplish the 30 credits is 15 each semester, in the fall and spring, in addition to an internship. This internship must have 500 hours logged in by the end of the school year, and a minimum of 218 (?) per semester is required.  It is for this reason outside, full time employment is discouraged while participating in this program.  It is an intensive and rigorous training program, and the students find that working full time beyond the program makes it difficult to fulfill the scholastic requirements.

An MSW degree is useful in many professional facets.  Jobs that are often held by MSW’s are:

Administration/Management within public agencies

Adoption and Foster Care Social Worker

Advocacy Coordinator

Aging/Gerontology Specialist

Campaign Manager

Children’s Social Service Worker

Clinical Supervisor

College Dean

Developmental Disabilities Worker

Domestic Abuse Officer

Education Specialist

Employee Assistance Counselor

Family Therapist

Hospital Social Worker

Grant Writer

Group Facilitator

Mental Health counselor

Missionary

Occupational and EAP worker

Outreach Facilitator

Peace Corps Volunteer

Policy Reform/Lobbyist

Probation Officer

Professor