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Applicants who have an undergraduate degree in a field other than social work must complete the MSW Qualifying Year to be eligible to then apply to the MSW (Non-Thesis) program.

Applicants seeking Admission to the MSWQY must have:

  • A BA or BSc
    All international applicants to the MSW Programs are required to verify their degree equivalencies and eligibility for admission
  • A cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher on a 4.0 scale
    For more information on grading, please visit McGill Grading and Grade Point Averages.
  • French Proficiency
    Students are expected to be functional in French (comprehension, spoken, and written) for the field placement components of the MSWQY. Applicants are asked to self-rate French proficiency on the MSWQY 鈥淪upplemental Information Form鈥� that is part of the application.
  • Prerequisite Course Requirements
    • One 3-credit university undergraduate level Statistics course
    • One 3-credit Human Development Across the Lifespan course

Students who do not yet have their Statistics or Human Development pre-requisites before entering the MSWQY may opt to take the prerequisites concomitantly with their MSWQY studies, as long as the courses are complete before July 15 of the year they plan to enter the MSW program.

Below is a description of the content for each of these prerequisite courses. The School of Social Work is not able to review applicant's academic history in advance of an application. Applicants are asked to consult the website and use course descriptions, syllabi and other materials to complete the required forms to the best of their abilities. Successful applicants who are offered admission will be advised of any conditions of acceptance, which may include fulfilling any pre-requisite course requirements.

All international applicants to the MSW Program are required to verify their degree equivalencies and eligibility for admission.

Statistics Course Requirements

One 3-credit听university undergraduate level* statistics course that should include the following topics:

  • Variables, distributions, and scales
  • Summary statistics
  • Means, standard deviations, cross-tabs, and correlations
  • Test hypotheses using bivariate tests of significance
  • Confidence intervals
  • Bivariate tests of association: t-test, analysis of variance, chi-square
  • Graph data

Applicants and incoming students are required to locate appropriate courses to cover the topics listed above. Examples of the types of courses that meet the statistics prerequisite include:

  • McGill:

Math 203*, Psyc 204, Soci 211

  • Concordia:听听

Comm 215, Psyc 315, Psyc 204, Soci 212, Soci 213, Stat 250, Econ 221, Geog 362

  • Thompson Rivers (online):

Psyc 2101

  • Athabasca (online):

Soci 301, Math 215

  • Laurentian U (online):

Stat 2126EL 12, Stat 2066EL 13

  • Carleton U (online):

Sowk 3002v, Psyc 2002

  • UNB (online):

Stat 2263

* Note:听CEGEP statistics courses听that are considered by McGill Enrollment Services to be听equivalent to听Math 203听meet the MSW statistics prerequisite.听 Note, however, that the M.Sc. (A.) CFT program requires university-level prerequisites.

Human Development Across the Lifespan Course Requirements

One 3-credit Human Development Across the Lifespan Course that should include the following topics:

  • The full span of life from pregnancy/birth to death; courses that concentrate on one phase of development (i.e., child or adolescent or adult development) are not accepted
  • Focuses on normative human development; courses that emphasize psychopathology are not accepted
  • Preferably, your course covers: theories of human development derived from some of the key scholars (Freud, Piaget, Bowlby, Erickson, Bandura, Kohlberg, Bronfenbrenner)
  • And an understanding of the various areas of development and their influence on one another: physical, affective, social, moral, and cognitive
  • As well as the ways in which gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, culture etc. may shape one鈥檚 development
  • Ideally, you should be able to identify developmental risk factors and developmental protective factors and apply the theoretical models to real life situations as a result of having taken this course.

Possible options* for where to take the prerequisite course:

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE LIFESPAN:

  • Concordia:

Psych 230, Psych 333, AHSC 220

  • Thompson Rivers (online):

Socw 3551

  • Athabasca (online):

Psyc 228

  • Laurentian U (online):

PSYC 2005EL 12

  • Manitoba (online):

Fmly 1010

*This is not an exhaustive list; applicants and incoming students are required to locate appropriate courses to fulfill the requirements, as detailed above

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