Master of Social Work [Advanced Standing]

Entry requirements for 科羅拉多州立大學

Four-year undergraduate degree in social work earned within the last seven years from an accredited BSW program
3.0 overall grade point average
3.0 grade point average in social work courses
Minimum TOEFL score for admission without condition is 550 (paper based), or 80 (internet based).
Minimum IELTS score for admission without condition is 6.5.
The MSW Program does not grant social work course credit for life experience or previous work experience.

Applications that are incorrect, incomplete, &/or have items missing at the deadline may not be included for admissions consideration. The application fee covers processing for all applications regardless of admissions outcome. The fee cannot be waived, and is nonrefundable.

Required information will include:
Statement of Purpose
The essay questions below are an important component of your overall application. Please be sure to respond to each question fully, using a maximum of 3 pages per question.
Question 1 ? Please limit your response to 3 pages single-spaced, font size 12. Please describe your commitment to social justice by:
a) briefly telling us how your background and life experiences brought you to choose social work as a career,
b) providing an example of an instance when you recognized privilege and/or oppression in your professional and/or personal life,
c) illustrating how this experience fueled your commitment to overcoming or dismantling oppression, and
d) reflecting on how you have sustained this commitment over time despite obstacles or challenges.
Question 2 ? Please limit your response to 3 pages single-spaced, font size 12. Select one of the 12 Social Work Grand Challenges found here and
a) describe an issue related to the Grand Challenge you selected that is of concern to you,
b) describe what the social work perspective on this issue would be in terms of values, principles, and/or ethics of the profession, and
c) discuss how social workers from an advanced generalist program, across micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice, can respond to this issue.
Summary of Experience
Upload a detailed resume-style document describing the types of experiences you have had that relate to your goal of professional social work practice. The Admissions Committee is looking for detail, not brevity.
List all experiences chronologically (starting with the most recent and working backward).
List your supervised experience in human service. There is a strict requirement for a minimum of 400 direct human service hours completed by the date of submission. This is defined as direct service work with vulnerable &/or disadvantaged populations. To qualify toward the human service work requirement the hours must be post-high school graduation.
Include the following information for each relevant entry:
Name of agency or organization
Type of agency (social work, human service, i.e., nursing, teaching, psychiatric, etc., public or private industry in human resource area, i.e., training, personnel, community work, board or committee, etc.)
Position held
Paid or volunteer
Length of time in positions and average amount of time worked each week, computed in hours. Please be very specific about the total hours spent on each position. Compute your total direct human service hours for each position, and include them in each position?s listing.
Nature of activities performed (direct service delivery, i.e., counseling, tutoring, indirect service, i.e., supervising, administrative, lobbying, board membership)
Population groups served (children, seniors, adolescents, ethnic minorities, women, men)
Frequency of supervisory contact and supervisor?s qualifications
This document must include a computation of hours worked in each social service setting totaled for each relevant position.
Three references
One reference must be a person who has most recently supervised the applicant in a human service delivery experience (paid, volunteer, or educational).

English language requirements

6.5

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