UC Berkeley Social Welfare began implementing a renewed Master of Social Welfare (MSW) Curriculum in the 2024-2025 academic year. For students admitted before Fall 2024, prospective students were admitted into one of three specializations.
After collecting feedback from MSW alumni and students and faculty deliberations that spanned several years, the Social Welfare Faculty voted to implement a streamlined and sustainable curricular structure to offer students more flexibility in choice of electives in the second year of the program, better align with Council on...