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Master of Social Work Degree Program

What our program focuses on

Our advanced generalist program has a rural emphasis. Wyoming has low population density, and many small, distinct communities, each with their own economies. MSW-level social workers within Wyoming are often called upon to undertake many different functions within a social service agency, including micro level direct practice, community assessment and planning, and administration within the agency. Therefore, our program is designed to prepare students to practice in each of these areas.

As a state university (and the only university within the state), our primary mission is to provide educational opportunities to Wyoming residents, to become practitioners for the state of Wyoming. However, we also recruit students from outside of Wyoming, because we believe that diversity within the student body is extremely important in the educational process.

The concentration curriculum of the MSW program at the University of Wyoming prepares students for advanced generalist social work practice, which is especially appropriate and relevant for social workers practicing in rural or frontier areas. The advanced generalist concentration builds on the knowledge, values, and skills mastered at the foundation generalist social work level. The advanced generalist curriculum requires that students have greater theoretical and methodological sophistication; increased ability in the selection and integration of practitioner roles; increased ability to integrate research into practice; a greater depth in the provision of services in and with larger systems such as administration, supervision, policy analysis, and social planning; increased ability to analyze value and ethical dilemmas; increased ability to prevent or help solve difficulties in a wide range of diverse client systems; increased skill in providing leadership within organizations, the community, the profession, and in the broader environment; increased skill in interdisciplinary collaboration, and increased ability to address issues of social and economic justice especially with populations-at-risk.