Gain the comprehensive training and experiential learning opportunities you need to become a compassionate and competent social work professional dedicated to addressing diverse societal challenges.
Our MSW degree offers a clinical concentration allowing students to gain the advanced knowledge, values, and skills to work in a variety of clinical settings such as health, mental health, aging, child welfare, and administrative fields of practice.
The Master of Social Work program has two tracks:
The Advance Standing Program is designed for highly qualified BSW students.
Master of Social Work
N/A
36-60
Master's Program
1-2 years
The M.S.W. is a professional degree that prepares students to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in clinical settings.
Learn more about the courses for the Master of Social Work degree program.
No academic credit is given for life experience or previous social work experience.
There are two standing programs students can choose from, depending on their undergraduate degree and academic standing:
The Advance Standing Program is designed for highly qualified BSW students.
Prospective students should understand that admission to the Master of Social Work Program is competitive, limited in number, and dependent upon the availability of faculty.
Meeting the requirements below does not guarantee admission.
Students seeking admission to the MSW program must complete a Graduate School application online. This application will require the following:
In addition to the requirements above, students seeking admission to the Advanced Standing Program for the Master of Social Work must meet the following requirements:
Financial aid and scholarship information may be found online with the Graduate School and with the Department of Social Work.
(Regular and Advanced Standing): April 1.
The mission of the Master of Social Work is to prepare competent and ethical clinical social workers for careers guided by scientific inquiry.
Our program works diligently to educate Social Workers that are committed to diversity, social and economic justice, and the enrichment of the quality of life, with systems of all sizes and at every level of society.
We want our graduates to be ready for the varied realities of a career in Social Work. To make sure they are capable and thoughtful leaders in their field, we work tirelessly to prepare clinical social workers who:
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) requires social work programs to ensure that all social work students demonstrate these certain competencies by graduation:
https://www.cswe.org/accreditation/policies-process/2022epas/
| College | School of Applied Sciences |
| Program | Master of Social Work |
| Program Licensure Outcomes | The Masters of Social Work program at The University of Mississippi is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).
Individuals must meet state regulations, determined by occupational settings, for the state in which they wish to practice. Compliance with state regulatory requirements is mandatory, and the only avenue towards legal practice. |
| Program Regulated by every state licensure / certification board | This program meets the educational requirements for licensure in the state of Mississippi.
We have not determined if the program curriculum meets the educational requirements for licensure or certification in the other US states, territories or the District of Columbia. |
| College Program Contact | socialwork@olemiss.edu |
| More information | All 50 states and the District of Columbia require that a social worker sitting for a licensing exam be a graduate of a CSWE-accredited program.
Contact information for individual state licensing boards can be found on the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) website at www.aswb.org or through an internet search for a licensing board for a particular state. |
| Date of Last Revision | 2/8/2022 |
Check out some of the key classes you’ll encounter as a Social Work graduate student. Curious about what else is offered? Browse the full catalog of courses.
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Understanding and analyzing family dynamics and interactional patterns from the perspective of major family therapy models. Intervention, theories, methods, and skills for problem resolution.
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3 credits
How people respond to traumatic stress is an individual matter based on a number of factors including psychological, emotional, social, cultural, biological, and familial. Students and instructors engage in a process of problem definition and specification, identification, critical reading of pertinent theory and research, and an exploration of specialized social work responses and practices related to the topic studied. Attention will be given to crisis intervention, trauma-focused interventions such as TF-CBT, and other interventions utilized by mental health professionals to assist individuals who have experienced a traumatic event. This course will provide the framework for understanding and treating traumatic stress by drawing upon empirical research and theory.
GR
3 credits
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