Program Overview

University of Alaska Fairbanks Social Work Program

Overview

The University of Alaska Fairbanks offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work, accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. The program prepares students for beginning social work practice with rural and Alaska Native populations.

Degree Requirements

• Complete the general university requirements, including:
  • SOC 100X
  • BIOL 103X and one other breadth natural science course, or BIOL 105X and BIOL 106X
• Complete the B.A. degree requirements, including:
  • ANTH 242
  • PSY 101
  • PSY 240
• Complete the following program (major) requirements:
  1. Complete the following courses:
     • SOC 242 -- The Family: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (3 credits)
     • SOC 250 -- Introductory Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (3 credits)
     • or STAT 200 -- Elementary Probability and Statistics (3 credits)
     • SOC 473W -- Social Science Research Methods (3 credits)
     • SWK 103 -- Social Work in the Human Services (3 credits)
     • SWK/HST 215 -- Individual Interviewing (3 credits)
     • SWK 306W -- Social Welfare: Policies and Issues (3 credits)
     • SWK 320 -- Rural Social Work (3 credits)
     • SWK 342O -- Human Behavior in the Social Environment (3 credits)
     • SWK 460 -- Social Work Practice I (3 credits)
     • SWK 461 -- Practicum in Social Work I (6 credits)
     • SWK 463 -- Social Work Practice II (3 credits)
     • SWK 464 -- Practicum in Social Work II (6 credits)
  2. Complete 2 courses from the following special problems areas:
     • HST 120 -- Cultural Diversity in Human Service (3 credits)
     • HST 205 -- Basic Principles of Group Counseling (3 credits)
     • HST 210 -- Crisis and Grief Counseling (3 credits)
     • HST 250 -- Current Issues in Human Service (3 credits)
     • HST 301O -- Ethics in Human Service (3 credits)
     • HST 305 -- Substance Abuse Counseling (3 credits)
     • JUST 310 -- Principles of Corrections (3 credits)
     • JUST/WMS 335W -- Gender and Crime (3 credits)
     • JUST 340 -- Rural Justice in Alaska (3 credits)
     • JUST 358 -- Juvenile Delinquency (3 credits)
     • PSY 255 -- Foundations of Counseling (3 credits)
     • PSY 345 -- Abnormal Psychology (3 credits)
     • PSY 360O -- Psychology of Women Across Cultures (3 credits)
     • PSY 445W -- Community Psychology (3 credits)
     • RD 325 -- Community Development Strategies (3 credits)
     • RD/WMS 375 -- Women and Development (3 credits)
     • SOC 201 -- Social Problems (3 credits)
     • SOC 310 -- Sociology of Later Life (3 credits)
     • SOC 335 -- Sociology of Deviant Behavior (3 credits)
     • SOC 363 -- Social Stratification (3 credits)
     • SOC/PSY 370 -- Drugs and Drug Dependence (3 credits)
     • SOC 408 -- American Minority Groups (3 credits)
     • SWK 350W -- Women, Society and Social Welfare (3 credits)
     • SWK 360 -- Child Abuse and Neglect (3 credits)
     • SWK 484 -- Seminar in Social Work Practice Areas (3 credits)
     • All HMSV courses
• Minimum credits required: 120 credits
• Students must earn a C grade or better in each course.

Minor

• Complete the following courses:
  • SWK 103 -- Social Work in the Human Services (3 credits)
  • SWK/HST 215 -- Individual Interviewing (3 credits)
  • SWK 306W -- Social Welfare: Policies and Issues (3 credits)
  • SWK 320 -- Rural Social Work (3 credits)
  • SWK 342O -- Human Behavior in the Social Environment (3 credits)
• Minimum credits required: 15 credits
• If prerequisites are not met for SWK 342O, then a course from group 3b (special problems) may be substituted.

Accreditation

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. The social work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.