Traditional MBA/MSW Program

  • For students with a bachelor's degree in any undergraduate major
  • 900 total practicum hours (420-hour foundation practicum + 480-hour advanced year practicum)
  • Full time (3 years) and on campus only
  • Students can begin the program in either school

This curriculum is effective fall 2024. If you started your MSW program prior to fall 2024, please follow the curriculum listed in the Student Handbook for the year in which you began your program.

As of fall 2025, field education is now known as practicum education in the School of Social Work. However, you may still see references to “field education” in course titles, documents and other dated web content.

First Year in Social Work

Fall Semester

SW 500 Social Welfare History
SW 505 Theories of Human Behavior and Development
SW 510 Introduction to Social Work Research and Evaluation
 SW 520 Interventions I 
 SW 550 Field Instruction I
SW 555 Field Seminar (0.5 credit)

Spring Semester

SW 502 Social Welfare Policy
SW 503 Diversity and Oppression
SW 506 Theories of Organizational Behavior and Development
SW 521 Interventions II
SW 551 Field Instruction II (4 credits)
SW 555 Field Seminar (0.5 credit)

Second Year in Management

Fall Semester

MGA 603 Financial Accounting for Managers
MGB 610 Organizational Behavior
MGB 611 Team Skills
MGF 611 Financial Analysis for Managers
MGO 658 Foundations in Entrepreneurship
MGG 635 Management Communications
MGM 615 Marketing for Managers
MGQ 608 Statistical Analysis for Managers

Spring Semester

MGA 605 Account. for Management Decision Making
MGE 604 Business Economics
MGO 620 Operations Management
MGO 640 Business Strategy
MGS 605 It Management
MGG 601 Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability
MBA Electives (3 credits)

Third Year in Management and Social Work

Summer Semester

MBA Internship (3 credits, 150 contact hours)*

Fall Semester

SW 542 Perspectives on Trauma and Human Rights
SW 552 Field Instruction III, 4 credits
Advanced Interventions (Choose one)
MBA Electives (9 credits)

Spring Semester

SW 569 Community Social Work
SW 553 Field Instruction IV
MBA Electives (6 credits)

*The MBA internship requirement may be fulfilled through one of the MSW practicum experiences, if completed in an administrative environment. If the requirement is filled through the MSW practicum experience, the student must complete three additional management elective credits.