Overview and Award Outcomes
Overview
The Pre-Social Work Transfer Pathway offers students a powerful option: the opportunity to complete an Associate of Science degree with course credits that directly transfer to designated Social Work bachelor�s degree programs at Minnesota State universities*. The curriculum has been specifically designed so that students completing this pathway degree and transferring to one of the seven Minnesota State universities enter the university with junior-year status. All courses in the Transfer Pathway associate degree will directly transfer and apply to the designated bachelor�s degree programs in a related field.
*Universities within the Minnesota State system include Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University; Minnesota State University, Mankato; Minnesota State University Moorhead; Southwest Minnesota State University; St. Cloud State University; and Winona State University.
Award Outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of humans and their environment, genetics, and evolution
- Interpret and analyze data and sample populations
- Examine and analyze the complexity of the structures and dynamics of society
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of psychology, as well as the ethical issues involved in the student of behavior and mental processes
- Demonstrate an understanding of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development in infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, midlife, and late adulthood
- Articulate an understanding how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of social welfare as a global social institution linked to the workings of other institutions and shaped by the intersection of politics, economics, social circumstances and value systems which impact different people in different ways
- Demonstrate professional skills in an experiential learning-based social services setting
- Demonstrate knowledge of the values and history of the social work profession at an introductory level