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Curriculum
Our curriculum takes a person-centered approach, integrating clinical and macro skills to address individual well-being and systemic challenges in crisis settings, including refugee settlements, migration routes, borderlands, and post-conflict communities.

Required courses for the Global Practice program:

• Frameworks and Tools for Global Practice
• Global Policy Issues and Implications
• Research Methods for Global Practice
• Program Evaluation for Global Practice

Travel course: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Borderlands and Human Mobility at the San Diego/Tijuana Border

·¡±ô±ð³¦³Ù¾±±¹±ð²õ:ÌýGlobal Child Protection • Trauma-Informed Psychosocial Interventions • Theories in Design Thinking for Social Change • Advanced Clinical Practice with Latinx Populations (in Spanish) • Public Health Social Work • Immigration and Refugee Issues • Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Implications for Social Work • History of Activism in the Black Community • Global Humanitarian Practice • Cross-Cultural Social Work

Field Practicum
You'll gain real-world experience through field practicums at international organizations. 

• Full-time Block Field Placement: As a Global Practice student, you’ll complete your final-year coursework in the summer and fall, followed by a full-time spring field placement of at least 720 hours outside New England. Under experienced supervision, you’ll strengthen your cross-cultural and technical skills while gaining greater autonomy in global social work practice.
  
  
• Stipend/Travel Reimbursement: 51³ÉÈ˶¯ÂþSSW offers partial financial assistance for lodging and travel for field placements outside of New England, helping make opportunities aligned with your career goals more accessible.

Certificate in Refugees and Immigrants
This certificate provides in-depth knowledge on migration and refugee issues as well as the foundational skills to conduct interventions and accompany immigrant and refugee populations in diverse settings domestically and abroad. Students must complete the following courses during the MSW program:

• Re-thinking Diversity: Systems of Oppression & Privilege
• Immigration & Refugee issues
• Migration, Politics, and Social Work: The Challenge of Justice and Care for Services to Migrants

Certificate in Global Humanitarian Practice
This certificate enables students to build knowledge around various humanitarian issues, systems, and practices both domestically and internationally. Students must complete the following courses during the MSW program:

• Human Behavior and the Social Environment
• Global Humanitarian Practice
• Global Migration and Forced Displacement: Debates and Responses

Interdisciplinary Certificate in Humanitarian Assistance 
51³ÉÈ˶¯ÂþSSW launched an , the first online offering within the school’s history, to ensure that its graduates and humanitarian partners have access to up-to-date knowledge on how best to respond to rapidly changing needs around the globe. The ICHA curriculum, developed in partnership with international non-governmental organizations, consists of eight modules that give students a grounding in the core, interdisciplinary competencies of global humanitarian assistance.