Two-Year Online BSW - Working
Have an Alberta Social Work Diploma, two years of university, or a degree in another field? Our Two-Year Blended BSW is your path to a social work degree.
A full-time, fully online program.
Ready to challenge your perspective?
Advancing social justice and eradicating racial and other forms of injustice is at the core of our redesigned BSW. You'll learn:
- Foundational knowledge and skills required for anti-oppressive, anti-racist, decolonizing, and anti-colonial practice.
- Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, being, and connecting.
- Critically reflect and demonstrate an understanding of your own social location, identity, and assumptions in your practice.
- Recognize and manage your biases and preferences to advance social justice and support the social well-being of social work service users.
- Develop knowledge and skills for practice with the support of social work supervision in practicum.
Is an online BSW right for you?
Alberta Social Work Diploma
Core courses cover topics such as theory and practice in:
- an interconnected world, research, mental health, Indigenous peoples' histories, cultures, & healing practices, green & sustainable social work, and africentric social work practice.
- experiential learning through practicum.
- You'll complete a 400-hour practicum in the fall term of your final year often scheduled weekdays during business hours, 4 full days/week.
- Your practicum will typically be completed in-person, close to or in your home community, anywhere in Canada.
- 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.
Non-social work courses are general arts (e.g., psychology, sociology) or science (e.g. statistics) courses at the junior or senior level.
University Transfer
Core courses 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, close to or in your home community, anywhere in Canada.
- 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.