MSW at DePaul University

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 MSW coursework.

• MSW 492Foundation Field Education IIopens 15 courses (1 directly)
• MSW 493Foundation Field Education IIIopens 14 courses (4 directly)
• MSW 482Foundation Practice IIopens 13 courses (1 directly)
• MSW 483Foundation Practice IIIopens 12 courses (2 directly)
• MSW 561Forensic Social Work Practice Iopens 5 courses (3 directly)
• MSW 581Community Practice Iopens 5 courses (3 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 MSW 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 25 MSW and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 11 more MSW 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 MSW. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at MSW 563

  1. MSW 481Foundation Practice I
  2. MSW 482Foundation Practice II
  3. MSW 483Foundation Practice III
  4. MSW 561Forensic Social Work Practice I
  5. MSW 571Forensic Field I
  6. MSW 562Forensic Social Work Practice II
  7. MSW 563Forensic Social Work Practice III

• 7 courses deep, ending at MSW 593

  1. MSW 481Foundation Practice I
  2. MSW 482Foundation Practice II
  3. MSW 483Foundation Practice III

• 4 courses deep, ending at MSW 501

  1. MSW 491Foundation Field Education I
  2. MSW 492Foundation Field Education II
  3. MSW 493Foundation Field Education III

• 2 courses deep, ending at MSW 412

  1. MSW 411Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
  2. MSW 412Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for MSW yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under MSW yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

MSW does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the DePaul campus feed.