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Prerequisites
for Formal Application to Social Work Major
1.
Completion of 45 credit hours
2. Satisfactory progress toward completion of the College General
Education requirements
3. A cumulative GPA of 2.0 in departmental courses taken to date
Students
are admitted to the Social Work Program through the following
process:
Step
1. The student receives her major petition from the Academic
Affairs Office during the second semester of the sophomore year.
The student submits her petition to the Chair of Social Work and
Anthropology Department. If the petition requests admission to
the Social Work Program, the Chair sends the student to the Director
of the Social Work Program whose responsibility it is to submit
a recommendation to the Chair based on an admission interview
conducted with the petitioner.
Step
2. The student who petitions for admission to the Social Work
Program meets with the Director of Social Work who evaluates her
in terms of her academic qualifications, her motivation and attitude,
her professional interest, and her apparent suitability for the
social work profession. The petitioners will have completed or
will be currently enrolled in SW 202: Introduction to Social Work.
During the interview, the applicant will receive a personal copy
of the Social Work Program Handbook which will be reviewed with
her. The Program Director also consults with the other members
of the Social Work faculty to obtain their evaluation of the student
before making a recommendation to the Chair.
If
the Chair has reservations concerning the recommendation, other
faculty in the Department who have taught the student may be consulted
and a meeting with the Director of the Social Work Program is
arranged to resolve the difference of opinion.
Step
3. The Department Chair returns the student's petition to
her with one of the following categories checked: Accepted
with no reservations or Conditionally Accepted if the
petitioner has an overall grade point average (GPA) of under 2.0
but is otherwise satisfactory. A conditionally accepted petition
is re-evaluated by the Director following the student's completion
of all sophomore courses and a final recommendation is made. Occasionally,
the petition may not be signed, with the reasons explained. Students
who are not approved may petition again, at a later date.
The
major becomes official only after the student files her petition
with the Academic Affairs Office. If the student fails to file
the petition, the major is not official and she is not entered
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