SSW Ph.D. Admission Procedures

Curriculum

The doctorate program course work is divided into the following four areas:

1. Foundation Courses in the School of Social Work (15 hrs.)

SW 7200 Integrative Colloquium in Social Work I: Broad-ranging analysis and discussion of problems and issues in the social work profession.

SW 7201 Integrative Colloquium in Social Work II: Broad-ranging analysis and discussion of problems and issues in the social work profession.

SW 7202 Issues and Research Problems in Social Policy: Issues and problems in social welfare policy; research focus on policy formulation.

SW 7204 Issues and Research Problems in Social Work Intervention: Social work intervention with individuals, families, groups, and communities; formulation and development of problem-solving research agendas.

SW 7207 Integrative Seminar: Development of research questions and hypotheses, and initial drafts of the dissertation proposal, including introduction, literature review, and methodology sections.

2. Research Methods and Statistics

7203 Data Analysis for Social Work Research I Prereq.: admission to the PhD program in social work orconsent of instructor. Introduction to data analysis for social work doctoral students, including: organizing and presenting data, descriptive statistics, correlation, simple linear regression, inferential statistical methods for one and two samples, and one-way analysis of variance.

SW 7206 Research Practicum: Hands-on supervised research experience; demonstration of collaborative and/or independent research.

7435 Data Analysis for Social Work Research II Prereq.: SW 7203 or consent of instructor. Advanced data analysis for social work doctoral students with emphasis on multivariate techniques.

One additional research course from a cognate department, chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor, directly related to dissertation needs.

3. Interdisciplinary Courses (12 hrs.)

Students, in consultation with an adviser, will choose an additional 12 hours of required course work incorporating one or more of the following academic disciplines:

Anthropology
Economics
Educational Leadership, Research, and Counseling
Finance
History
Human Ecology
Management
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Social Work

4. Dissertation (9 hrs.)

Dissertation (nine hours) students may not enroll in dissertation hours until after they have successfully passed the General Examination. Dissertation hours cannot be taken to fulfill the Graduate School’s residence requirement.