January 2021 MSW Enrollment Guide

Tuition, Billing & Financial Aid

The next step in your GSSW educational journey is to accept the offer of admission and submit your tuition deposit, if you haven’t already.

• Tuition Deposit Instructions

  Submit your $300 deposit within 7 business days of receiving your decision letter to hold your spot in the Denver Campus MSW Program. The deposit is non-refundable, but the full amount will be credited to your first tuition payment.

  1. Accept Offer of Admission: To accept our offer of admission, visit your application status page. There, scroll to the “Forms” section and click the “Reply to Admission Offer” link to select “I ACCEPT your admission offer.”
  2. Submit your Tuition Deposit: Once you have accepted your offer, you will have the opportunity to pay your tuition deposit by clicking the “Enrollment Deposit—Submit Payment” link that appears on your application status page. This link will take you to a webpage allowing payment of your deposit with a credit card.
• Tuition & Billing

  Tuition for each quarter is due the first day of that quarter. More information about tuition, fees and payment are available at the Bursar’s Office. 

• Financial Aid

  To apply for state or federal financial assistance, you must complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form as soon as possible. This application is required to determine eligibility for grants, loans and student employment. 

  If you have questions regarding FAFSA, Federal loans or the GradPLUS loan, please email finaid@du.edu. 

  If you have questions regarding a merit-based scholarship, graduate assistantship, deposit deadline or scholarship disbursement, contact gsswadmission@du.edu or call 303-871-2841.

New Student Orientation

Orientation is required for all incoming Advanced-Standing and Two-Year students and will introduce community resources, expectations, and opportunities as you begin your journey at GSSW. Orientation for the incoming January 2021 class is Thursday, December 17, 2020 (from 9:00 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. MT) and Friday, December 18, 2020 (from 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. MT). We will also offer optional post-orientation sessions on Friday, December 18, 2020 (from 12:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.) where you can seek individual answers to specific questions.  For more details, please visit our GSSW Admitted Student Resource Portal.

Return to Campus Protocols

Class Protocols & Registration

Class Protocols 

We are committed to offering you a high-quality MSW education with the great variety in courses, concentrations, and certificates available only through the Denver Campus MSW Program. Following public health guidance, select on-campus options are available for you in January if you wish to enroll in them. However, you can select to take all courses in an online format, and all paths toward concentration and certificate requirements are available in an online format for 2021 winter and spring quarters. We are also prepared to move all classes to an emergency online format, if required by university and/or public health guidance at any time.  

Here’s additional information about in-person versus online course availability: 

• All classes will be prepared for an online, flipped format in which 90 minutes of content is provided asynchronously and 90 minutes of activities may occur in a live session (either on-campus or on Zoom).  
• On-campus sections will only run if state, local, and university public health guidelines permit it - which is currently allowed at 50% capacity within a classroom. 
• Courses will be ready to accommodate students to temporarily engage in learning virtually, if a student is required to self-isolate. 
• Any student, staff, or faculty who comes to the DU Campus must abide by DU-required social distancing and health practices (i.e., reduced class sizes, staggered times, engaging in DU public health training(s), mask-wearing, health screenings, compliance with contact tracing protocols while on campus and prohibitions against traveling out-of-state). 

Registration

Registration for the winter quarter began on November 11, 2020 and is ongoing. Please review the GSSW Registration Resources located in the GSSW Denver Campus Registration Toolkit. The DU Online Schedule lists course modalities (and lecture format means on-campus). Before you register, you must check and resolve any holds on your account. You are unable to register until all holds are resolved. Please follow the instructions below for your program. 

• January 2021 Advanced-Standing MSW Program

   You must register for the three required Advanced-Standing courses (listed below). 

  • SOWK 4299: Advanced Standing Seminar
    • Section 1: Tuesdays, 1:00 – 2:30 pm, on-campus
    • Section 2: Tuesdays, 1:00 – 2:30 pm, online
  • SOWK 4201: Evidence for Practice
    • Section 2: Tuesdays, 3:00 – 4:30 pm, online
  • SOWK 4132: Power, Privilege, and Oppression
    • Section 3: Mondays, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, on-campus
    • Section 105: Fridays, 12:00 – 1:30 pm, online
  • If you are enrolled in the January 2021 Start — Accelerated 3-Quarter AS Curriculum Plan (Block Field), you also need to register for three additional concentration specific or elective courses. ​​​​​​
  • If you are enrolled in the January 2021 Start — Traditional 4 Quarter AS Curriculum Plan (Block Field), you also need to register for one additional concentration specific or elective course. ​​​​​​
    • Review concentration curriculum guides on the GSSW Student Resource Portal.
• January 2021 Two-Year MSW Program

  For the 6-Quarter Foundation Two-Year Curriculum Plan (Block Field), you need to register for the following courses:

  • SOWK 4000     Professional Development Seminar    
  • SOWK 4132     Power, Privilege and Oppression from a Critical Multi-cultural Perspective
  • SOWK 4020     Integrated Social Work Practice for Social Justice
  • SOWK 4001     Clinical Social Work Skills
  • SOWK 4006     Human Behavior in the Social Environment

  If you want ALL CLASSES ONLINE; you will register for any of the following sections:

  • SOWK 4000, section 1 or 2
  • SOWK 4132, section 105
  • SOWK 4020, section 105
  • SOWK 4006, section 105, 106, 107, 108

  If you want SOME CLASSES ON CAMPUS; Only the bolded courses above can be taken on campus for 90-minute sessions (if public health guidance allows) and will be offered in a set of three in the same day—known as a, “section.” You will need to register for all three classes of the same section. You have the option of the following on campus sections:
  
  Section 1 = Thursday morning 8:10 am-1:40 pm
  Section 2 = Friday morning 8 am-1:30 pm

  • SOWK 4132, section 1 or 2
  • SOWK 4020, section 1 or 2
  • SOWK 4001, section 1 or 2

  You may choose any open section of:

  • SOWK 4000 section 1 or 2
  • SOWK 4006 section 105, 106, 107, 108

  Along with these three on-campus classes, you will enroll in the other classes listed above in online format. 

Field Education

With field internships, you can begin practicing your social work skills right away. With more than 600 GSSW field agencies available in Denver—from hospitals and hospices, to child welfare agencies, policy nonprofits and animal sanctuaries—you’ll find an internship that fits your specific needs and interests. Email field@du.edu with any questions. 

Start your internship search process:

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  Attend a Field Information Session

  Sign up instructions will be emailed after you submit the deposit.

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  Complete the Internship Search Form

  Information about the internship search form will be sent via email after the information session.

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  Schedule an Appointment with a Field Advisor

  After you complete the internship search form, you will set up a one-on-one meeting with a field advisor, who will work with you to identify GSSW-approved field agencies for your interview and selection process. Learn more about our field advisors and some of our current field placements online.