Course Offerings for 2023/24

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.
Note: For online courses not available to on-campus students and for online students seeking to take an on-campus course, we will accept requests for students to take a course from the other program offerings.
- Requests will be recorded by date and time received.
- Should space be available, we will provide the course override and contact you to let you know you may enrol.
- Students should fully register in required courses available for their program as space in the alternate courses is not guaranteed.
  - On-campus program students wishing to request a spot in an online course should email fswassist@wlu.ca with:
    - Name
    - WLU ID number
    - Course number and section
    - Term.
  - Online program students wishing to request a spot in an on-campus course should email onlinemsw@wlu.ca with their
    - Name
    - WLU ID number
    - Course and section
    - Term
- Requests will be reviewed after August 1st for Fall 2023, December 1st for Winter 2024 and March 1st for Spring 2024.

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.

Fall 2023

Winter 2024

Spring 2024

SK501 FA1
SK507 FB1
SK522 FB1
SK545 FA1
SK621 FC1
SK651 FA1

SK536 WC1
SK641 WB1

Electives:
In Person
SK610 1
SK620 1
SK654 1
SK659 1
SK668 1

Online
SK619 WA1
SK668 WA1
SK632J WA1
SK632X WA1
SK632K WB1
SK632N WB1
SK605 WB1
SK693 WB1

SK615 SA1
SK665 SA1
SK665 SA2

Electives:

SK619 SA1
SK656 SB1
SK632M SB1
SK632P SA1

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.

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. 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