About the MSW Program
The mission of the MSW program is “to prepare social workers for advanced practice and leadership roles in clinical work and in work with organizations, communities, and society, accepting and appreciating diversity and empowering people to meet the challenges of poverty and social and economic injustice.”
The MSW program is offered in Little Rock. After a generalist first year, students choose one of two concentrations for their second year of study: advanced direct practice (ADP) or management and community practice (MCP). The MSW curriculum consists of 60 hours of graduate work, including 32 core hours, 22 concentration hours, and six elective hours. Field instruction is an integral part of the curriculum design, totaling 18 hours of course work or 1200 practice hours by graduation (1056 hours for advanced standing students). Advanced standing students are given credit for 17 hours of graduate work and need 43 hours to graduate.