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Program checklist · Social Work (PhD)

Social Work (PhD)

Simmons University · Boston, MA

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Social Work (PhD)
Credential class
ceterms:DoctoralDegree
CIP
44.0701
Catalog edition
2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The PhD in Social Work program is designed for practitioners to develop scientific research skills so that they can engage in scholarship that improves the health and wellbeing of individuals, groups, and communities. We train clinical practitioners to become researchers and social scientists. Our research courses are rigorous with an applied focus. We emphasize using empirical evidence to effect social change and promote social justice. PhD program faculty mentor students to develop academic and professional careers that include research, teaching, and leadership roles. The DEIPAR (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Power & Anti-Racists) framework, that underlies all School of Social Work programs, is infused across PhD programming.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
167783
CourseShelf checklist
CK_167783_e16e9bf1
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Degree Requirements

18 items
  1. SW 685A
    Integrative Research & Professional Development Seminar
    As published: “SW 685A is taken during all semesters (fall, spring, and summer)”
  2. SW 634
  3. SW 650
    Quantitative Scientific Methods
    As published: “SW 650”
  4. SW 685A
  5. SW 670
  6. SW 654
    Qualitative Research Methods
    As published: “SW 654”
  7. SW 685A
  8. SW 635
    Qualitative Data Analysis
    As published: “SW 635”
  9. SW 651
  10. SW 685A
  11. SW 652
  12. SW 631
    Philosophy of Science
    As published: “SW 631”
  13. SW 685A
  14. SW 610
    Social and Behavioral Theory
    As published: “SW 610”
  15. SW 633
    Survey Research Methods
    As published: “SW 633”
  16. SW 685A
  17. SW 624
    Intervention Research
    As published: “SW 624”
  18. SW 685A

Fall semester: Students take a Comprehensive Qualifying Exam.

8 items
  1. SW 685B
    Integrative Research & Professional Development Seminar
    As published: “SW 685B is taken during all semesters (fall, spring, and summer)”
  2. SW 685B
  3. SW 685B
  4. SW 685B
  5. SW 685C
    Integrative Research & Professional Development Seminar
    As published: “SW 685C is taken each fall and spring semester until Graduation”
  6. SW 685C
  7. SW 685C
  8. SW 685C
    Integrative Research & Professional Development Seminar
    As published: “SW 685C credit cost is a matriculation continuance fee. Credits do not count towards graduation”

Other Requirements

20 items
  1. SW 671
    Teaching Methodologies, Course Design, and Assessment
    As published: “SW 671 or equivalent can be taken any semester”
  2. SW 692
    Doctoral Research Practicum
    As published: “SW 692 Doctoral Research Practicum”
  3. SW 691
    Doctoral Teaching Practicum
    As published: “SW 691”
  4. SW 692
    Doctoral Research Practicum
    As published: “SW 692”
  5. SW 691
    Doctoral Teaching Practicum
    As published: “SW 691 Doctoral Teaching Practicum (prior to dissertation defense)”
  6. SW 610
    Social and Behavioral Theory
    As published: “SW 610”
  7. SW 624
    Intervention Research
    As published: “SW 624”
  8. SW 631
    Philosophy of Science
    As published: “SW 631”
  9. SW 633
    Survey Research Methods
    As published: “SW 633”
  10. SW 634
  11. SW 635
    Qualitative Data Analysis
    As published: “SW 635”
  12. SW 650
    Quantitative Scientific Methods
    As published: “SW 650”
  13. SW 651
  14. SW 652
  15. SW 654
    Qualitative Research Methods
    As published: “SW 654”
  16. SW 671
  17. SW 670
  18. SW 685A
  19. SW 685B
  20. SW 685C
Source. Simmons University, catalog 2026-2027 — https://simmons.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2026-2027/graduate-course-catalog/programs-of-study/school-of-social-work/social-work-phd. Captured page pages/0103.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.