Social Work (B.S.W.)

Graduate from a fully accredited social work program that qualifies students for success in your chosen career path as a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

In this fully accredited program, you’ll learn first-hand how to collaborate with, and advocate with and on behalf of, marginalized populations, and develop a strong foundation of clinical knowledge, social justice and research knowledge, critical and social action. Explore a range of contemporary social work issues and frameworks in the general years (years one and two), making connections across a variety of disciplines. If you apply and are successful in being admitted to the professional years (years three and four) of the program, you will focus almost exclusively on social work theory and practice, while completing a minimum700 hours of hands-on work in the field through supervised placements. Through Social Work at Trent, you will graduate qualified for a successful career as a registered social worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.

Career Experience:

  • Complete two supervised field placements totalling 700 hours, working with mental health associations, sexual assault centres, community counselling groups, shelters, and social services organizations

  • Make a difference by volunteering at community and campus events or by joining the Trent Social Work Society

  • Meet leading thinkers and social activists in the field through a variety of on-campus lectures and workshops

Career Paths:

  • Social Worker
  • Career Consultant
  • Life Coach
  • Community Developer
  • Child Protection Worker
  • Probation/Parole Officer
  • Victim Services Worker
  • Mental Health Worker
  • Social Policy Analyst
  • Addictions Worker
  • Therapist

Popular Courses:

  • Social Welfare

  • Social Work Research

  • Anti-Oppressive Child Welfare

  • Feminist Informed Trauma Practice

  • Social Work Communication

  • Social Work and Indigenous Perspectives

  • Africentric Perspectives in Social Work

  • Social Work and Addictions

  • Queering Social Work

  • Social Work and Aging

Admission Requirements

  • Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)
  • A minimum of six Grade 12 4U or 4M courses, including program specific prerequisites
  • A minimum 70% overall final average
  • ENG 4U with a minimum of 60%

Please note that admissions requirements are outlined for 1st-year entrance. Students in the Social Work program must apply for their professional years. For more information please visit: trentu.ca/socialwork 

Discover more about the Social Work program at trentu.ca/socialwork 

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