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To graduate with a BASW major, a student: 

  1. Completes a minimum of 120 credits.  These include:

1. Eighteen (18) credits of Social and Behavioral Science Courses with at least one course in each of the following areas:  

  1. Anthropology  3 crs     
  2. Economics       3 crs     
  3. Gender/Sexuality/Women’s Studies  (Any Global Studies class attribute course) 3 crs 
  4. Political Science          3 crs 
  5. Psychology      3 crs 
  6. Sociology         3 crs 

 

2.Other Course Requirements: 

  1. Africana Studies                      3 crs 
  2. English Composition                3 crs 
  3. Global Studies             3 crs 
  4. Human Biology                       3 crs 
  5. Religion/Spirituality   (Any Religious Studies class attribute crse) 3 crs 
  6. Statistics          3 crs 

NOTE:  Some or all of the above courses may have been taken as part of the 60 credits required for admission. 

 

3.  Forty-eight (48) credits of the following required BASW social work courses (including field) and a social work elective: 

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