Social Welfare (Option III) is intended to provide the student with knowledge and skills necessary for entry professional-level employment in social work settings such as hospitals, probation and parole, public welfare, community planning, mental health and physically handicapped. Satisfactory completion of the Option makes the student eligible for entry level membership in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) upon employment. Students wishing to declare this Option as their major should plan to do so in their junior year and are required to see an advisor in the Option at least once each semester in order to plan their course load. Students planning to pursue this Option are encouraged to seek advisement prior to their junior year if possible.
Application for Enrollment in SOC 475 AF/AS & 475 BS/BF (Now SOC 490S/F)
Lower division requirements: 10 units
- SOC 150 Introductory Sociology (3)
- SOC 202 Sociological Analysis (3)
- Math 140 Introductory Statistics (4)
Upper division requirements: 39 units
- SOC 345 Social Psychology (3)
- SOC 356 Social Welfare Institutions (3)
- SOC 357 Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice (3)
- SOC 424 Statistical Techniques in Socal Research (3)
- SOC 424L Statistical Techniques in Socal Research Laboratory (1)
- SOC 430 Theory I - Classical Sociological Theory (4) or
- SOC 468 Theory II - Contemporary Sociological Theory(4)
- SOC 426 Social Legislation & Social Policy (3)
- SOC 440 Sociology of Aging (3) or
- SOC 459 Child Welfare (3) or
- SOC 484 Community Organizing (3)
- SOC 492 Human Behavior in the Social Environment (3)
- SOC 493 Diversity and Social Justice (3)
- SOC 490S/F Supervised Field Seminar Fieldwork - Two semesters Fall and Spring (3)
- SOC 497 Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods (3)
- SOC 497L Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods Laboratory (1)
NOTE: Applications submitted for 490S/F must be submitted by the deadline at the beginning of the Spring term in order to get permission to take courses.