A flexible way to pursue your Master of Social Work.
Graduate Certificates provide stand-alone credentials.
They're also a flexible option to pursue your MSW so you can continue to work.
Certificates offered through mix of online and in-person instruction
Our innovative Graduate Certificates provide education in areas most requested by social workers.
Certificates are offered online, with face-to-face residencies at several of our Alberta campus locations.
Fall 2019 Offerings
These are the Graduate Certificates being offered this fall / winter.
- Advanced Social Work Practice (Calgary residencies)
- Advanced Social Work Practice (Edmonton residencies)
- Clinical Social Work Practice: Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups (Calgary residencies)
- Clinical Social Work Practice: Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Calgary residencies)
Complete your four-course Graduate Certificate in eight months (September to April).
Flexible Path to Your MSW
Graduate Certificates provide a flexible path to a Master of Social Work degree, allowing you to balance life, work and finances with your education. To enter the Master of Social Work program you need to complete two Graduate Certificates – Advanced Social Work Practice and a specialization certificate of your choice. You can complete them in any order.
If you're accepted to the MSW program, you would then complete the requirements for a degree by completing a practicum, integrative research seminar and capstone project.
Graduate certificate application deadline: April 15, 2019
Admission Requirements
- Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum GPA of 3.00 (on a 4.00 scale)
- Two years of full-time paid work and/or volunteer work in the human services field
- English Language Proficiency
Cost
The cost for each Graduate Certificate is $5,151.20. This includes program and course fees and general UCalgary fees.
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Calgary, Central and Northern Alberta, and Southern Alberta.
Calgary, Central and Northern Alberta, and Southern Alberta.
"We asked social workers what kind of education they needed. This is what they told us."
Our innovative Graduate Certificate curriculum and approach is a new way for our faculty to provide flexible opportunities to support and advance the practice of social work in Alberta. The specialization topics and certificate approach reflect extended consultation and conversations with our current students, alumni and community partners over several years. If you're a practicing social worker I think you'll find our Graduate Certificates provide a flexible approach to balancing education, career and family.
Fall 2019 Graduate Certificates
Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups
Learn to become theoretically sound masters of “therapeutic/transformative conversations” with skills and knowledge applicable to diverse settings and scopes of practice. You will learn how to apply clinical skills to a broad range of social work practice.
Learn to become theoretically sound masters of “therapeutic/transformative conversations” with skills and knowledge applicable to diverse settings and scopes of practice. You will learn how to apply clinical skills to a broad range of social work practice.
Infant, Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Examine the implications of mental health theories, policies and research. Explore the fundamental principles, processes and practices of psychosocial interventions for young people and families affected by substantial mental health disorders.
Advanced Social Work Practice
Employ research strategies to examine structural issues of marginalization and injustice faced by individuals, families and communities in local, national and global contexts. The political nature of social work practice will be examined as students explore the public policy context within which social work and social welfare are delivered.
Employ research strategies to examine structural issues of marginalization and injustice faced by individuals, families and communities in local, national and global contexts. The political nature of social work practice will be examined as students explore the public policy context within which social work and social welfare are delivered.
About the Faculty of Social Work
For more than 50 years we have been recognized as one of Canada's best social work schools and a leader in innovative education and research. We are consistently ranked among the top 15 schools in North America for research productivity. Many of our faculty are internationally recognized experts in their field who provide training based on current evidence-based approaches. We seek new answers to society's biggest issues, focused on innovation and excellence.
Become a UCalgary Social Worker. Make a world of difference.
Want to learn more?
Email one of our student advisors.