Social Work Practice

Updates on UC Berkeley Social Welfare’s MSW Program Renewal

August 20, 2025

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...

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Organizational Supports for Practice Research: Illustrations from an International Practice Research Collaborative

Michael J. Austin

2024

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Hybrid Event: The Fundamentals of Strategic Advocacy with Charles Lewis

December 9, 2024

On October 29th, as the final October 2024's Cultivating Community in Challenging Times Event Series, Berkeley Social Welfare hosted a hybrid event with Charles E. Lewis, Jr. (link is external), the founder and director of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy (CRISP), a nonprofit organization that works to engage social workers with the U.S. Congress. Dr. Lewis is an...