Create Positive Change With a Degree in Social Work

Denver Campus MSW

Located in one of the nation’s most scenic and vibrant cities, the Denver Campus MSW is GSSW’s most flexible degree program. We offer both full- and part-time options for the Denver Campus MSW Program (for students who have a bachelor’s degree in any field other than social work) and the Denver Campus Advanced-Standing MSW Program (for students who already have a bachelor’s degree in social work).

With a concentration in Advanced Social Work Practice, you can follow one of several specialization pathways or create your own customized MSW degree to meet your personal interests or career goals. You can also choose from several dual-degree programs and certificates in Global Social Work, Human–Animal–Environment Interactions, Latinx Social Work and School Social Work. With so many options, you can chart your own career path!

• MSW Specializations

  If you want to specialize, you can choose from eight sample pathways, or create your own.

  • Child Welfare: Work with children, youth and families across the continuum of care within the child welfare system, from entry to exit in both public and private child welfare agencies.
  • Children & Youth: Risks and Healthy Development: Work with adolescents and children in a wide variety of settings, including mental health, family services and community agencies, schools, treatment centers and correctional facilities.
  • Ecological Justice: Work in environmental social work, including assessment, community engagement, education, health promotion, mobilization, organizing, poverty reduction, environmental preservation and capacity building.
  • Family Systems Practice: Work with families and diverse clients in a variety of direct-service, private-practice and family-policy settings.
  • Health & Wellness: Practice in a variety of holistic health, integrated health and wellness settings, including hospitals, after-school programs and experiential treatment settings.
  • Mental Health: Work in a therapeutic social work setting as a counselor or behavioral health clinician who assists with trauma, mental illness and substance abuse issues.
  • Organizational Leadership & Policy Practice: Develop programs, administer organizations, build community coalitions, craft and analyze social policy, implement program and policy research, and advocate for policy and program change.