SCWK at Boston College

A suggested order for the 65 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 1 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate SCWK coursework.

• SCWK 9932Field Education II CSWopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• SCWK 8843Theories of Design Thinking for Social Changeopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SCWK 9933Field Education III CSWopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SCWK 9942Field Education II Macroopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate SCWK work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 65 SCWK and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 22 more SCWK courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in SCWK. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at SCWK 9934

  1. SCWK 7762Basic Skills in Clinical Social Work
  2. SCWK 9932Field Education II CSW
  3. SCWK 9933Field Education III CSW
  4. SCWK 9934Field Education IV CSW

• 3 courses deep, ending at SCWK 8848

  1. SCWK 8800Basic Skills in Macro Practice
  2. SCWK 8843Theories of Design Thinking for Social Change
  3. SCWK 8848Practicing Design Thinking for Social Change

• 3 courses deep, ending at SCWK 9943

  1. SCWK 7762Basic Skills in Clinical Social Work
  2. SCWK 9942Field Education II Macro
  3. SCWK 9943Field Education III Macro

• 2 courses deep, ending at SCWK 6602

  1. SCWK 7721Human Behavior and the Social Environment
  2. SCWK 6602Macro Independent Study

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on SCWK sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Adam, Atif
• Avanzato-Ushkurnis, Lisa M
• Baez, Gerelyn M
• Baum, Jonathan
• Betancourt, Theresa
• Bhattacharya, Sunanda
• Birch, Patricia
• Black, Jessica M
• Boston, Kali A
• Bradley, Samuel L
• Bresnahan, Karli L
• Brigham, Rebecca R
• Budhi, Rachel S
• Bullock-Johnson, Ramona
• Bullock, Karen
• Byansi, William
• Byrne, Thomas H
• Calvani, Jennifer A
• Calvo Vilches
• Castaneda, Yvonne C
• Cecilia Catarina
• Chen, Zhirui
• Clairgue Caizero
• Cohen, Joshua M
• Colthart, Kathryn
• Conley Peterson
• Connolly Benitez, Amanda
• Cook Estevez
• Corens, Gabriel F
• Craft, Beth N
• Crea, Thomas M
• Davison, Kirsten K
• De Oliveira
• Department
• DePentu, Elizabeth Diane
• Dept
• Dept, Assigned
• Dexter, Karen M
• Donahue, Carrie Lipuma
• Doucette-Rosa, Linda
• + 121 more

Clubs & organizations

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