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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE MASTER IN SOCIAL WORK (MSW) PROGRAM? DO YOU WANT TO APPLY ?

Weekend MSW Cohort Forming in Calais and New Brunswick

Belfast. Join us for an Information Session at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast on August 6, 5 to 7 p.m. The popular Masters in Social Work (MSW) weekend program at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast is expanding to include simultaneous sites linked with video conferencing in Calais and Orono. Start date for the program is the Fall 2009 term that begins on August 31, 2009.

The UMaine Hutchinson Center MSW program is designed for the professional who is working full-time. Classes convene on Friday nights (5:30 to 8 p.m.) and again on Saturday morning (9:00 to 11:30 a.m.). Over the course of regular Fall, Spring, and Summer terms. Students register for six credit hours (2 graduate classes) that then meet on alternate weekends. Thus, one class meets on the first weekend and the second class meets on the next scheduled weekend. The classes are offered year-round making it possible to complete the Master’s degree as a part- time student in less than three years. The cohort model allows students to network and form professional relationships that will last beyond the end of the program. Professionals from all over the state and from New Brunswick, Canada, have graduated from the five cohorts held to date.

For this special expanded cohort, faculty will be live at each site on a rotating basis, so that once every three weeks each location will have a live instructor while the other two locations receive the class via video conferencing. Classes offered via video conferencing are two-way interactive, that is, both visual and audio are delivered in real time. Students at all sites have microphones that facilitate asking questions and actively participating in the class discussion. The instructor and all students can see all sites via televised video. Each site will also have a facilitator available to provide technical and instructional support as needed.

Current faculty and University representatives will be available to answer questions.
Light refreshments will be provided.

The University of Maine School of Social Work delivers this Master’s in Social Work (MSW) degree, a nationally accredited graduate program. The MSW prepares professionals to assume leadership roles in private practice and community agencies and to deliver high quality services to clients from all walks of life. The curriculum emphasizes integrating research-based theory into professional practice through both didactic coursework and supervised practice in a variety of settings.

The UMaine Hutchinson Center supports the MSW program by providing meeting space, technical support, negotiated discounted rates at local motels, and with some free rooms available from our Senior College members.
For more detailed information about the MSW curriculum and faculty, go to http://www.umaine.edu/socialwork/ .

Applications for admission to this special Fall 2009 MSW Cohort are available now by contacting Victoria Kane at 207-581-2389 or email Victoria.Kane@umit.maine.edu. The time to plan for your future as an MSW level social worker is now with the expanded UMaine Hutchinson Center cohort being delivered in Belfast, Calais and Orono using both live and video conferenced delivery. This expanded cohort is being offered just one time beginning in Fall 2009. Act now to get your application submitted for consideration for this special cohort.

Also check our website at www.hutchinsoncenter.umaine.edu