Four-Year BSW
Your future in social work starts here with a full-time BSW program designed for high school graduates
Ready to become a professional social worker?
Advancing social justice and preparing for professional social work practice is at the core of our BSW. You will learn:
- Foundational knowledge and skills required for professional social work practice in a variety of contexts.
- Expand understanding and ability for professional practice with diverse peoples in advancing social justice and well-being in society.
- Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, being, and connecting.
- Develop a professional social work practice model encompassing theory and methods that include critical self-reflection.
About the Program
Program Highlights
Explore Contemporary Issues – Engage with real-world challenges through social work courses designed to explore contemporary social issues.
Gain Practical Experience – Apply your learning in the field through hands-on, career-related placements in professional settings.
Bridge Theory and Practice – Integrate academic knowledge and research into real-world professional practice.
Develop Job-Ready Skills – Take part in short-term, competency-based learning that aligns with labour market and community needs.
In your first two years, you’ll attend classes that focus on building a strong academic foundation, with most courses taken outside of social work.
Your core social work courses will cover topics such as theory and practice in:
- an interconnected world, advocacy for social justice, communication & relationship building, professional ethics, research, mental health, Indigenous peoples' histories, cultures, & healing practices, green & sustainable social work, and africentric social work practice.
- experiential learning through practicum.
- Starting in your first semester, you'll complete 300-hour of learning through community service and social justice initiatives.
- You'll also complete a 400-hour practicum in the winter term of your final year often scheduled weekdays during business hours, 4 full days/week.
- Your practicum will typically be completed in-person
- Our field education team is dedicated to supporting you through your practicum journey.
Through social work option courses, you may study topics such as:
- addictions and recovery, human sexuality, gerontology, intimate partner violence, loss and grief, mental health and trauma, social work in health care or child welfare settings, and social work with immigrants and refugees.