Our On-Campus Advanced Standing MSW combines practice, research, theory, policy and field education to prepare you for clinical and macro-level practice. Our competency-based curriculum is the first in the nation to be approved by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). It is designed to provide you with the knowledge and practical skills to advance key social justice issues, examine your own perceptions of diversity and become more culturally-aware and inclusive in your role as a social work professional.
The on-campus advanced standing MSW is a 39 credit, one year program*. If you earned a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) from a CSWE-accredited program within the past seven years, you will automatically receive advanced standing.
Below are sample advanced-standing patterns of enrollment for each of our paths of study.
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 581 Social Work with Older Adults (3)
- Free Elective (3)
- Choose one:
- SASS 589 S.W. Practice in Integrated Healthcare
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- SASS 588 Integrative Seminar (1)
- Choose one:
- SASS 518 SW w/ Death Grief & Loss
- Free Elective (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 517 Family System Interventions (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 550 Trauma Informed SW Practice Child & Family (3)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- SASS 588 Integrative Seminar (1)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 561 Community Practice Policy: Analyzing & Changing Social Policy (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 567 Strategic Power Building w/Communities (3)
- SASS 569 Planning & Implementing Soc. Change (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- SASS 588 - Integrative Seminar (1 credit)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- Choose one:
- SASS 517 Family Systems Interventions
- Free Elective (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 589 SW Practice in Integrated Healthcare (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- SASS 588 - Integrative Seminar (1 credit)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 583 Social Work Practice in M.H.: Adults (3)
- SASS 587 Integrative Seminar in Mental Health: Adults (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- SASS 588 - Integrative Seminar (1 credit)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
- Free Elective (3 credits)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 564 S.W. Practice in Alcohol and Other Drugs (3)
- SASS 580 Social Work Practice in Mental Health: Children/Adolescents (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7credit hours)
- Choose one:
- SASS 518 Death, Grief and Loss (3)
- Free Elective (3)
- Free Elective (3)
- SASS 588 Integrative Seminar (1)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 519 Children and Families in the School Setting (3)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 550 Trauma Informed SW Practice Child & Family (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 517 Family System Interventions (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 580 Mental Health Practice with Children and Adolescents (3)
- SASS 585 Social Work with Groups (3)
Summer Semester with partner Baldwin Wallace University (10 credit hours)*
- EDU 584 Pupil Services and Community Resources (online BW) (3)
- EDU 510 Educational Studies (BW) (3)
- EDU 573 Children with Special Needs (BW) (3)
- SASS 588 Integrative Seminar (CWRU) (1)
Year Two
Fall Semester (9 credits)
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3)
- SASS 564 Social Work Practice in Alcohol and Other Drugs (3)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program with School Social Work Hours: 51 credits
*Students interested in School Social Work must meet with Professor Marji Edguer to discuss the curriculum and process to complete courses at Baldwin Wallace University.
Year One
Fall Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 603A Field Education III (3)
- SASS 497A Adv. Field Education: Organizational Theory & Practice Seminar II (1)
- SASS 543 Collaborative Practice IA (0)
- SASS 547 Problems Identification, Screening (3)
- SASS 549 Theory/ Practice Approaches in Direct Practice Social Work (3)
- Choose one:
- *SASS 562 S.W. Intervention in Co-occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders
- Free Elective (3)
- SASS 566 Assessing and Engaging Community for Social Change (3)
Spring Semester (16 credit hours)
- SASS 604A Field Education IV (3)
- SASS 540 Integrated Health & Wellness Specialized Policy (3) Weekend Format
- SASS 542 Evaluating Programs and Practices (3)
- SASS 544 Collaborative Practice IB (1)
- SASS 564 Social Work Practice in Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse (3)
- Free Elective (3)
Summer Semester (7 credit hours)
- Choose one:
- * SASS 522 Motivational Interviewing
- Free Elective (3)
- Choose one:
- * SASS 585 Social Work with Groups
- Free Elective (3)
- SASS 588 Integrative Seminar (1)
Total MSW Advanced Standing Program Hours: 39 credits
*SASS 516 and SASS 576 are taught in the intensive weekend formatted course. The courses will each meet for approximately 2 weekends over the semester.
The advanced standing MSW program is designed to be completed in one year as a full-time student. The exception to this is School Social Work. School Social Work is 1.5 years.