Social Welfare

The online minor in Social Welfare requires 18 credit hours. A student who is majoring in another UA college may declare a minor in Social Welfare, subject to the requirements of the student’s college. Students majoring in Social Work (BSW) cannot minor in Social Welfare.

Social Welfare minors may not take social work practice courses, including SW 440, SW 441, SW 442, SW 443 and SW 490.

Required courses

• SW 100 Introduction to the Fields of Social Work Practice
• SW 200 Reform and Resistance
• SW 351 Anti-Oppression and Social Justice

Choose three elective courses

• SW 206 Growing Old in America
• SW 208 Juvenile Delinquency: Causes, Control and Services
• SW 210 Family and Child Welfare
• SW 212 Death, Dying and Bereavement
• SW 320 Volunteerism in Human Services Systems
• SW 401 Social Welfare Policy and Services
• SW 410 Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
• SW 411 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II
• SW 415 Psychopathology
• SW 419 International Social Work

Electives are to be selected from among the courses open to non-Social Work majors and for which students have successfully passed the appropriate prerequisites. One of these courses must be at the 300 or 400 level.

View more information about this program through the undergraduate catalog.