Course Offerings for 2024/25

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.
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.
- 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.

Full-Time Program Course Offerings

The following courses listed are the available required courses and electives open to full-time students. Students in the full-time Regular Track and Advanced Standing programs do not have access to courses in the part-time Regular Track and Advanced Standing programs.

PLACEMENT COURSE: Register for the appropriate placement course in each term that you are scheduled to be in the placement setting. If you are in a field placement, earning hours, you must be registered in the appropriate field placement course.

SK541 - Foundational Placement (Year 1 Regular Track Students)
SK649 - Advanced Placement (Year 2 Regular Track and Advanced Standing Students)

Times and dates can be found in the dynamic schedule on LORIS.

IMPORTANT: Review sequence of courses required on the program requirements page.

Fall 2024

Winter 2025

Spring 2025

Year 1 Regular Track

SK501 1, 2, 3
SK504 1, 2, 3, 4
SK507 1, 2, 3
SK522 1, 2, 3
SK545 1, 2, 3

Year 2 Regular Track & Advanced Standing

SK508 1, 2
SK621 1, 2
SK649 A
SK651 1, 2
SK690 1, 2

Year 1 Regular Track Students

SK509 1
SK536 1, 2, 3
SK541 B
SK552 1, 2
SK599 B
SK641 1
SK681 1, WB1*

Year 2 Regular Track & Advanced Standing

SK649 B
2 Electives

Electives:
In Person
SK619 1
SK632B 1
SK632V 1
SK659 1
SK668 1

Online
SK605 WB2
SK632X WA1
SK656 WA1

*limited space, requires departmental approval

Year 1 Regular Track

SK541 C
SK615 1, 2, 3, 4
SK665 1, 2, 3, 4

Advanced Standing

SK615 1, 2, 3, 4
SK665 1, 2, 3, 4
2 Electives

Electives:
In Person
SK693 1
SK641 1*

Online

SK632N SA1

*limited space, requires departmental approval

ELECTIVES

Please choose only two electives for the Winter term. Those who register in more than 2 electives 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 1 should space be available.

International Social Work Diploma

Please contact the programs office for assistance with course registration.

Online Course Offerings

Online courses are first and foremost for our online program students.

Your program sequencing, for Regular Track or Advanced Standing, is outlined in your Welcome email sent at the time of admission.

You must register for courses as they are outlined in your sequence. Deviation from your program sequence will result in de-registration.

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

Online course sections:

- Start with F, W, or S for the applicable fall, winter, or spring academic term.
- The term is followed by a section: A for the 1st 6 weeks, B for 2nd 6 weeks and C for the full term courses.
- Some courses are designed for specific programs. Courses with term (F, W, S) followed by AS are for the Advanced Standing program and RT for the Regular Track program.
- Exception: Course sections starting with FI or PI are 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

If you receive an error message indicating you have exceeded the maximum credits allowed per term, reach out to onlinemsw@wlu.ca for an override.

Course Offerings

**Course Offerings for Fall 2024**
Fall A	Fall B	Fall C
SK504 FA1, FA2 SK507 FA1 SK615 FA1, FA2 SK641 FA1, FA2 SK681 FA1 Electives: SK632N FA1 SK656 FA1 SK693 FA1 Electives Requiring Override: SK641 FA1, FA2 SK681 FA1	SK509 FB1 SK545 FB1, FB2 SK552 FB1, FB2 SK651 FB1 SK690 FB1 Electives: SK605 FB1 SK632X FB1 SK668 FB1 Electives Requiring Override: SK509 FB1 SK552 FB1, FB2	SK536 FC1 SK598 FAS, FRT SK599 FAS, FRT SK621 FC1, FC2 Field Placement: SK600 FC1 SK649 FC1

**Course Offerings for Winter 2025**
Winter A	Winter B	Winter C
SK504 WA1, WA2 SK507 WA1 SK522 WA1, WA2 SK615 WA1, WA2 SK665 WA1, WA2 Electives: SK632J WA1 SK668 WA1	SK501 WB1, WB2, WB3, WB4 SK651 WB1 SK681 WB1 SK690 WB1 Electives: SK605 WB1 SK632P WB1 SK652 WB1 SK693 WB1 Electives Requiring Override: SK681 WB1	SK536 WC1 SK621 WC1, WC2 SK598 WAS, WRT SK599 WAS, WRT Field Placement: SK600 WC1 SK649 WC1

**Course Offerings for Spring 2025**
Spring A	Spring B	Spring C
SK504 SA1, SA2, SA3, SA4 SK507 SA1 SK552 SA1 SK615 SA1, SA2 Electives: SK619 SA1 SK632M SA1 SK668 SA1 Electives Requiring Override: SK552 SA1	SK545 SB1, SB2, SB3 SK651 SB1 SK665 SB1, SB2, SB3 SK690 SB1 Electives: SK632K SB1 SK656 SB1	SK536 SC1, SC2 SK598 SAS, SRT SK599 SAS, SRT SK621 SC1 Field Placement: SK600 SC1 SK649 SC1