Field education provides opportunities to test and refine classroom learning in professional social work settings. BSW students must have a minimum of 400 supervised semester hours of field education within a period of two semesters. Students are required to attend a classroom-setting field integrative seminar as part of their field education. The purpose of the integrative seminar is to provide field education students a forum for the synthesizing of classroom learning with their agency-based field internship. Students may apply for field education only after all lower-division and prescribed social work courses and other requirements have been satisfactorily completed, as explained in the school's Student Handbook .
Students enroll in field education for the fall-spring semesters.
Field education applications must be turned in to the director of field education by February 15. In either PSW or BSW status, a student may be subject to review for academic reasons or for other reasons related to the social work profession. A review is the mechanism by which the school assesses a student's academic career in the program or the student's appropriateness for social work practice. The student, the student's academic adviser, or a classroom instructor may request a review. A review is mandatory when a student makes a grade lower than C in any social work course other than SW 2000.