The program achieves this goal by incorporating both analytic and interactional frameworks. Following this course, macro students are required to take Community Organizing, Planning and Program Development, and Human Services Management. These courses stress the analytical and interactional skills and bases of knowledge on which the different types of macro practice build. Students may fulfill the requirements in either three or four years. The Northeastern Massachusetts and Southeastern Massachusetts programs are designed for clinical social work practice only, in conjunction with the same substantive additional course work offered in Boston.
Students take one course at a time, with each course lasting five weekends.
Degree requirements are completed within three years. Approximately 25 students are admitted into each off-campus program each year. In order to meet the field placement requirements, part-time students must be free 16 hours a week for their first placement and 24 hours a week for their second placement. Students must be prepared to enter the field no later than the second year of the program. Field placement scheduling options can be designed especially to accommodate the needs of part-time students.