DSOWK-BA - Social Work, BA

The Bachelor of Arts in Social Work program (BASW) prepares students for professional generalist social work practice. It equips students with core skills and values for beginning-level professional social work practice in urban settings with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and populations at risk. Upon completing the BASW degree, students will have developed marketable skills in critical thinking, ethical principles, applying theoretical perspectives, and oral and written communication skills. Obtaining a BASW degree will also make students eligible to sit for the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners Licensing Exam. After obtaining a BASW degree, graduates can work in areas such as child welfare, family services, case management, skilled nursing centers, hospice care, community mental health, substance abuse treatment, and many other areas.

Texas Direct Field of Study Curriculum

In accordance with Texas Education Code, Chapter 61, Section 61.823, if a student completes all the courses in an FOSC and transfers to another Texas public institution of higher education, the FOSC courses transfer as a block and are applied to the student’s selected major. If a student completes the FOSC, the Texas Core Curriculum, and any college or university courses required of all students regardless of major, the student is finished with all the lower-division courses.

If a student transfers with an incomplete FOSC, each completed FOSC course transfers and applies to the to the degree program, and the institution may require the student to complete additional lower-division courses. Courses listed reflect TCCN course numbers.

ENGL 1301 – Composition I (UNTD: ENGL 1313)

ENGL 1302 – Composition II (UNTD: ENGL 1323)

SOCW 2361 – Introduction to Social Work

SOCW 2362 – Social Welfare

SOCW 2389 – Academic Cooperative

SOCI 1306 – Social Problems

Directed Electives: not specified.