Pre-Social Work Transfer Pathway Associate of Science

Program Overview:

The Pre-Social Work Transfer Pathway A.S. offers students the opportunity to complete an Associate of Science degree with course credits that directly transfer to designated Social Work bachelor's degree programs at Minnesota State universities. The curriculum is designed so that students completing the pathway degree and transferring to one of the seven Minnesota State Universities enter the university with junior-year status. The human services professionally related electives within the pathway provide students with knowledge and skills in the broad-based helping professions.

Program Outcomes:

Upon completion of the Pre-Social Work Transfer Pathway program at RCTC, students will achieve the following outcomes:

• Recognize the background of humans and their environment, genetics, and evolution.
• Analyze data and sample populations.
• Recognize the complexity of the structures and dynamics of society.
• Understand the principles of psychology as well as the ethical issues involved in the study of behavior and mental processes.
• Define physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development from infancy through late adulthood.
• Acknowledge how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience.
• Describe social welfare as a global social institution linked to the workings of other institutions and shaped by the intersection of politics, economics, social circumstances and value systems which impact different people in different ways.
• Gain experiential learning in a social service setting, a minimum of 120 hours and evaluated by a site supervisor.
• Demonstrate the values of the Social Work Profession as well as the historical development of the profession at an introductory level.

Additional Information:

All courses in the Transfer Pathway associate degree will directly transfer and apply to the designated bachelor’s degree programs in a related field.

This transfer pathway degree will transfer to the following designated baccalaureate degree majors:

• Bemidji State University - Social Work, BS
• Metropolitan State University – Social Work, BSW
• Minnesota State University, Mankato – Social Work, BSSW
• Minnesota State University, Moorhead – Social Work, BSW
• Southwest Minnesota State University - Social Work, BS
• St. Cloud State University – Socia Work, BS
• Winona State University – Social Work, BSW

Notice of Minnesota Background Check Requirement Minnesota Statute 245C requires that students who have contact with individuals in licensed institutions complete an annual background study with the Minnesota Department of Human Services. Individuals who do not pass the background check will not be allowed to participate in clinical activities. A list of disqualifying offenses is available at https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=245C.15. Information about completing the background study will be available from program faculty.

PRE-SOCIAL WORK TRANSFER PATHWAY AS

MINNESOTA TRANSFER CURRICULUM (MnTC)/GENERAL REQUIREMENTS (41 CREDITS)

GOAL 1: COMMUNICATION (11 CREDITS)

• COMM 1114 – Fundamentals of Public Speaking (3 cr)
• ENGL 1117 – Reading and Writing Critically I (4 cr)
• ENGL 1118 – Reading and Writing Critically II (4 cr)

GOAL 3: NATURAL SCIENCES (7 CREDITS)

• BIOL 1110 – Human Biology (4 cr)
• Credits from MnTC Goal 3 (cannot be BIOL)

GOAL 4: MATHEMATICS/LOGICAL REASONING (4 CREDITS)

• MATH 2208 – Fundamentals of Statistics (4 cr) OR MATH 1090 – Statway Statistics (4 cr)

GOAL 5: HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (10 CREDITS)

• PSYC 2618 – General Psychology (4 cr)
• PSYC 2626 – Human Growth and Development (3 cr)
• SOC 1614 – Introduction to Sociology (3 cr)

GOAL 6: HUMANITIES AND THE FINE ARTS (3 CREDITS)

Credits from MnTC Goal 6

GOAL 7: HUMAN DIVERSITY, RACE, POWER, AND JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES (3 CREDITS)

• COMM 1130 – Interpersonal Communication (3 cr)

GOAL 9: ETHICS & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY (3 CREDITS)

• POLS 1615 – Introduction to Human Services (3 cr)

PROGRAM CORE REQUIREMENTS (6 CREDITS)

• HS 1522 – Introduction to Human Services (3 cr)
• HS 1585 – Human Service Field Experience (3 cr)

ELECTIVES (13 CREDITS)

HS courses

RECOMMENDED COURSE SEQUENCES

FULL-TIME

• Semester 1 – Fall (14 CREDITS): BIOL 1110, ENGL 1117, HS 1522, SOC 1614
• Semester 2 – Spring (14 CREDITS): COMM 1114, ENGL 1118, HS Elective, PSYC 2618
• Semester 3 – Fall (16 CREDITS): COMM 1130, HS Electives (6 cr), MATH 1090 OR MATH 2208, PSYC 2626
• Semester 4 (16 CREDITS): HS 1585, HS Elective, MnTC Goal 3 (cannot be BIOL), MnTC Goal 6, POLS 1615

Course descriptions can be found at: RCTC course descriptions