Typical Student Schedule for the Doctoral Program

1st SEMESTER – FALL

All students:

• Doctoral Proseminar in Social Work Research (T8002) 
• History and Philosophy of Social Welfare (T8801) 
• Research Methods in Social Work (T8502)  
• First Statistics Course
   
• Advanced Practice students: The Changing Contexts of Social Work Practice (T8201)
• Social Policy students: Microeconomics and Policy Analysis I (U8213)
• Social Administration students: First Social/Behavioral Science Course

2nd SEMESTER - SPRING

All students:

• Second Statistics Course 
• Second Research Methods class 
• First or Second Social/Behavioral Science Course
• Research Practicum (typically initiated this semester)
   
• Advanced Practice students: Seminar in Advanced Social Work Practice (T8203) 
• Social Policy students: Seminar in U.S. Social Policy (T8404), Microeconomics and Policy Analysis II (U8216)
• Social Administration students:Seminar in U.S. Social Policy (T8404), Social Administration/Management (T8403)

3rd SEMESTER - FALL

All students:

• Field of Practice Tutorial (T8003)
• Third Statistics Course
• Third Research Methods Course
• Second or third Social/Behavioral Science course
  
• Research Practicum (completed throughout the second year)
   
• Advanced Practice students: The Ecosystems Perspective on Practice (T8202)

4th SEMESTER - SPRING

• Field of Practice Examination/Paper
• Comprehensive Examinations 
• Third Social/Behavioral Science Course (unless already completed)  
• Fourth Research Methods or Statistics Course 
• Research Practicum (completed throughout second year) 
• Students begin work on social/behavioral science qualifying paper
   
• Social Policy students: Seminar in Policy Analysis (T8407) (offered in the 3rd semester some years)
  

• Dissertation seminar (T8505)
• Dissertation Research Instruction course (T9800)
• Social / behavioral science qualifying paper 
• Students prepare and defend their dissertation proposal, file for their Master in Philosophy (M.Phil) degree, conduct further research and write the dissertation in full, and defend the dissertation.