Full-time SW 740, Field Education, is repeated each semester for a required total of 10 units. Students receive one unit of credit per 8 hours in the field. Areas of field placement include mental health, community social work, heath care, aging, legislation and social action, family and child welfare. Placements are located throughout the Bay Area.
Some agencies offer stipends for field work placements.
The part-time MSW program is based on the premise that students will remain in their agencies of employment for their field placement. Acceptance of a student into the program, however, does not obligate the agency of employment to provide full pay for the field work experience during the student's residency year. It is the student's responsibility to discuss entry into the MSW program with the agency executive prior to admission and to make all arrangements with respect to salary and released time for class attendance. All field placement agencies, field instructors and student assignments must be approved by the School's Director of Field Education. This, however, is not a guarantee of paid field education.