SWRK at University of Pennsylvania

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. SWRK 6040Foundations of Social Work Practice I and Practicum
  2. SWRK 6140Foundations of Social Work Practice II and Practicum

A suggested order for the 21 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 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 SWRK coursework.

• SWRK 6140Foundations of Social Work Practice II and Practicumopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• SWRK 7040Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice I and Practicumopens 1 course (1 directly)
• SWRK 7080Advanced Macro Social Work Practice I and Practicumopens 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 SWRK 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 21 SWRK and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 189 more SWRK 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 SWRK. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at SWRK 7140

  1. SWRK 6040Foundations of Social Work Practice I and Practicum
  2. SWRK 6140Foundations of Social Work Practice II and Practicum
  3. SWRK 7040Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice I and Practicum
  4. SWRK 7140Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice II and Practicum

• 4 courses deep, ending at SWRK 7180

  1. SWRK 6040Foundations of Social Work Practice I and Practicum
  2. SWRK 6140Foundations of Social Work Practice II and Practicum
  3. SWRK 7080Advanced Macro Social Work Practice I and Practicum

• 2 courses deep, ending at SWRK 7130

  1. SWRK 6030American Racism and Social Work Practice
  2. SWRK 7130Understanding Social Change: Issues of Race and Gender

• 2 courses deep, ending at SWRK 7430

  1. SWRK 6150Introduction to Social Work Research
  2. SWRK 7430Action Research

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for SWRK yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under SWRK yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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