Religious understanding is crucial for counselors in a global age. Offered in collaboration with the Iliff School of Theology, a Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master of Divinity (MDiv) provides spiritual and social work training that will help religious professionals in their career advancement and bivocational work as counselors and ministers or chaplains who want to incorporate social work in their ministry.
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Your Career Options
With an MSW and MDiv dual degree, you’ll graduate with a competitive, cross-disciplinary skill set that will give you an advantage in the job market. Career options include:
- Providing spiritual care as a chaplain in hospitals, hospices, the military, corporate environments and more
- Work in the advocacy and policymaking arenas
- Lead religious and other nonprofit organizations
- Providing religious education
- Offering individual counseling
Featured Social Work Courses
SOWK 4721
Existential Social Work
About this Course
The problems facing people can be understood in the context of situations and meanings they give to them. This course seeks to identify useful ways to clarify and validate the client's unique "world view", bypassing the many dangers and misuses of diagnostic categorization and empowering clients in relation to themselves and problem definition.
SOWK 4535
Planning and Program Development
About this Course
This course will prepare you to engage in strategic planning and program development roles and practice within a social work community, organizational or policy practice setting. You will this gain knowledge in the principles of planning, social enterprise, the engagement of stakeholders in planning processes, community collaboration and the elements of designing and implementing programs. You’ll put this knowledge into practice by developing a comprehensive program proposal, applying strategic thinking, planning and critically evaluating research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
SOWK 4555
Spirituality and Social Work Practice
About this Course
This course provides students with a nondiscriminatory knowledge framework to respond competently and ethically to populations with diverse spiritual perspectives and religious cultures in social work practice. This social justice-informed course underlines and respects the diversity of all spiritualities with special attention to spiritual populations historically marginalized and neglected by Eurocentric assumptions common to social work. It integrates theories of multiculturalism, human development, and identity development while exploring how individuals view spirituality and religion as they move through the life cycle. You will be asked to explore you own ideology of spirituality as it relates to your professional identity and practice effectiveness.
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