• Bachelor of Social Work

Students must complete at least sixty semester credit hours in residence at UT Austin to earn an undergraduate degree in the School of Social Work.

• Core curriculum transfer credit from Texas community colleges is guaranteed to apply toward UT Basic Education requirements, but not all core courses are suitable for a particular major field of study. Recommendations in this Guide satisfy core requirements with coursework needed for the major, enabling students to complete lower-division degree requirements with minimal credit.

• Grades from transfer credit are not combined with grades earned at UT Austin to determine the student's internal University grade point average. Transfer credit is not granted for courses in which grades of D or F are earned.

• College Algebra (MATH 1314 or 1414) cannot be applied toward the mathematics requirement or toward the total number of semester hours required for the BSW degree, but grades and credit in the course count toward transfer admission.

• A maximum of six semester hours of physical education activity coursework may be applied as elective credit toward the BSW degree.

• A maximum of six semester hours in Air Force, Military, or Naval Science may be applied as elective credit toward the BSW degree by students commissioned through the UT Austin ROTC program.

The Office of Admissions evaluates courses from other institutions for comparability with UT Austin coursework, but only the Office of Academic Affairs in the School of Social Work has authority to approve transfer credit for use in a degree program.

• Questions concerning degree/graduation requirements and degree applicability of transfer credit should be directed to the Office of Academic Affairs, School of Social Work, UT Austin, Austin TX 78712 (phone 512/471-5457).

• Questions concerning transfer admission and transfer credit evaluation should be directed to the Office of Admissions, MAI 7, UT Austin, Austin TX 78712 (phone 512/475-7399).

Prospective Social Work transfer students are urged to become familiar with the School's curricula and rules in the Undergraduate Catalog 2006-2008.

Students who transfer directly from a Texas community college may choose to graduate under UT Austin catalog rules in effect during the time they attended the community college. Students declaring the Undergraduate Catalog 2006-2008 must complete all degree requirements by the end of the summer session 2014.

The School of Social Work requires all students to have completed in high school two years of study in a single foreign language and three years of study in mathematics at the level of Algebra I or higher. Transfer students who do not meet these requirements are assessed a deficiency by the Office of Academic Affairs; removal of deficiencies is required for graduation.

• To remove a foreign language deficiency, credit for the 2nd-semester college level course in a language is required.

• To remove a mathematics deficiency, credit for MATH 1314, 1316, 1324, or 1414 is required.

Prospective students should complete coursework needed to satisfy high school deficiencies prior to transfer. Credit used to remove a deficiency cannot be used to satisfy any other degree or graduation requirement.

• ENGL 1301;
• ENGL 1302 (applies as lower-division Substantial Writing Component credit); and
• one literature survey course chosen from ENGL 2321, 2322, 2323, 2326, 2327, 2328, 2331, 2332, or 2333.

6 semester hours chosen from one of the following combinations:

GOVT 2301 & 2302; or
GOVT 2305 & 2306; or
GOVT 2301 & 2305; or
GOVT 2301 & 2306.

(Because community colleges organize the two-semester legislative requirement sequence differently, it is strongly recommended that students take both courses at one institution.)

One course chosen from MATH 1324, 1332, 1342, 1442, 2312, 2342, 2412, or 2442. (MATH 1314, 1350, 1351, & 1414 cannot be counted.)

3 semester hours in visual/performing arts chosen from ARCH 1301 or 1302, ARTS (excluding 1320 & 1321), DANC (excluding 2325), DRAM (excluding 2366 & 2367), HUMA 1315, MUAP, MUEN, or MUSI (excluding class instruction in instruments and voice).

SOCW 2361; and

3 semester hours in coursework emphasizing cultural diversity chosen from ANTH 2351; ENGL 2351; GEOG 1302, 1303, or 1304; GOVT 2311; HIST 2321, 2322, 2323, 2327, 2328, or 2381; HUMA 1305, 1311, 2319, or 2323; PHIL 1304; PSYC 2306; or SOCI 2306, 2319, or 2320. (Credit used to satisfy this requirement cannot be applied toward other area requirements.)

Credit in one language through the 2nd college-level semester, chosen from courses numbered

1311, 1411, or 1511 (1st semester) and
1312, 1412, or 1512 (2nd semester).

Credit in American Sign Language may be used to fulfill this requirement:

SGNL 1301, 1401, or 1501 (1st semester) and
SGNL 1302, 1402, or 1502 (2nd semester).

6 semester hours chosen from HIST 1301, 1302, 2301, 2327, 2328, or 2381.

12 prescribed semester hours:

• one course chosen from ECON 2301 or 2302;
• PSYC 2301;
• one course chosen from PSYC 2308 or TECA 1354; and
• SOCI 1301.

An integral 2 course sequence in one discipline, chosen from

• ASTR 1403 & 1404, PHYS 1403 & 1404, or PHYS 1411 & 1412;
• BIOL 1406 & 1407, 1408 & 1409, 1411 & 1413, or 2401 & 2402;
• CHEM 1405 & 1407, 1406 & 1408, or 1411 & 1412;
• GEOL 1403 & 1404; or
• PHYS 1401 & 1402, 1405 & 1407, or 1415 & 1417.

3 additional semester hours in a different discipline, chosen from

BIOL (excluding 1323), CHEM, ENVR, GEOL (1346 or 1436 may not be counted if astronomy is used to fulfill the 2-course requirement above), HECO 1322, or PHYS.

In satisfying the requirements above, students must complete at least 3 semester hours in human or environmental biology chosen from BIOL 2301, 2302, 2304, 2305, 2306, 2316, 2401, 2402, 2404, 2406, or 2416.

(Community colleges may number lecture & lab credit separately, for example CHEM 1311 + 1111 are equivalent to CHEM 1411. Combined lecture + lab courses are applicable, though lab credit is not required for the BSW.)