MSW 2023/24 Course Offerings

Before you begin: 

• Review your program requirements to ensure you are registering in the required courses for your program in the appropriate terms.
• Make sure you are viewing the appropriate online or on-campus courses. 
  • On-campus courses are primarily for those in the full-time on-campus programs. 
  • Online courses are primarily for those in the part-time online program unless otherwise specified on this page. For the 2023/24 specific sections of online courses have been opened to on-campus students. They are noted in the table below.
    • Online courses are fully online, asynchronous and self-directed, but students must meet weekly deadlines and assignments. Each course requires a minimum of 15 hours of study per week. Most are 6 weeks in length. 

• Consult the registration guide and how-to videos to assist you through the registration process. 
• Course registrations are on a first-enrolled, first-served basis.
  • Should the need arise to lower enrolment limits on course sections or even our enrolments over sections, those who registered last in a specific section of a course may be moved to another section offered at the same day, time and delivery method without notice. 
  • Should we be able to increase enrolment limits on a course section, those on a waitlist (where applicable) would have priority on those spaces.
• Courses are subject to minimum registrations in each section. Courses with low enrolment may be cancelled. If this is necessary, affected students will be notified via email. 
• Courses are noted with the course number and then the Section number. When searching on LORIS:
  • online course sections:
    • start with F, W, or S for the applicable fall, winter or spring academic term;
    • then A for 1st 6 weeks, B for 2nd 6 weeks or C for the full term courses;
    • and then a number.
    • Exception: Course sections starting with FI or PI for the Indigenous Field of Study program only.
  • on-campus sections are typically just a number or a single letter.
• SK628, SK635, SK644, SK645, SK646, SK647 and SK648 are for students enrolled in the Indigenous Field of Study Advanced Standing MSW program (IFS) only. Requests for space in those courses from students outside the IFS will not be approved.

If you have questions or receive error messages on LORIS, please review the Error Messages Guide. If that does not help, send us the exact error message you receive or a screenshot of the error as well as your name, ID number and your program to fswassist@wlu.ca for on-campus students and onlinemsw@wlu.ca for online students.

If you are looking for course information from the 2022-2023 academic year, you can find it here. 

On-Campus Course Offerings

The following courses listed are available on-line sections for on-campus students and electives available for the 2023/24 Academic year according to term.

Times and dates for required courses held on-campus can be found in the dynamic schedule on LORIS.

IMPORTANT: Review sequence of courses required in the Regular Track and Advanced Standing programs on the program requirements page. The below are only on-line sections open to on-campus students and electives for 23/24.

SK541 - Foundation Field Placement
SK649 - Advanced Field Placement
If you are in a field placement, earning hours, you must be registered in the appropriate field placement course.

Advance Standing Students:

Please choose only two advanced electives  for the Winter term and two advanced electives for the Spring term Those who register in more than 2 electives specifically in the Winter  term are at risk of being removed from the extra electives at our discretion. We will allow additional elective courses to be added to Winter after December 1should space be available. 

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International Social Work Diploma

Please contact the programs office for assistance with course registration.

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Online Course Offerings

Online courses are first and foremost for our online program students. See notes at the top of this page directing on-campus students on how to request enrolment in online courses.

Review program requirements to ensure you are registering for the required courses in your program.

Your program sequencing, for Regular Track or Advanced Standing, is outlined in your Welcome email. 

Only register in courses listed for your program requirements - Regular Track or Advanced Standing.

If you are off-track due to a leave from the program, change of placement start term or any other issue, email onlinemsw@wlu.ca for your individualized course plan.

The following courses listed are those open to online students in each term in Fall, Winter, Spring

• online course sections:
  • start with F, W, or S for the applicable fall, winter or spring academic term;
  • then A for 1st 6 weeks, B for 2nd 6 weeks or C for the full term courses;
  • and then a number.
  • Courses with sections indication Term (F, W, S) followed by AS (Advanced Standing) or RT (Regular Track) will be limited to l
  • Exception: Course sections starting with FI or PI for the Indigenous Field of Study program only.

When choosing sections, evenly distribute A and B six week sections.

PLACEMENT COURSE: Register for the appropriate placement course in each term that you are scheduled to be in the placement setting. 

• SK600 - Regular Track Students
• SK649 - Advanced Standing Students

Course Offerings

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