{"id":872,"date":"2009-03-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:09:53","slug":"ms-w-graduate-program-to-be-offered-at-apsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/13\/ms-w-graduate-program-to-be-offered-at-apsu\/","title":{"rendered":"M.S. W. Graduate program to be offered at APSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-256\" title=\"apsu-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/apsu-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"apsu-logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"81\" \/>Beginning in Fall 2009, Austin Peay State University will offer a new Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree. The degree program, which requires 60 credit-hours of course work for completion, is open to graduates with a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work or in any other field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing into the profession requires someone who has a heart for people,\u201d said Dr. Pete Stoddard, graduate coordinator for the M.S.W.<br \/>\nStudents who have a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work can start the program as early as Fall 2010 and graduate in one year. Those with bachelor\u2019s degrees in other field can begin the program in Fall 2009 and graduate in 18 months. Classes meet Thursday evenings and online. Students may enroll either part time or full time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After earning the M.S.W., which is the terminal degree for practitioners, graduates are able to pursue the licensed critical social worker (L.C.S.W.) program.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the program or apply for admission, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/SocialWork\"  target=\"_blank\">www.apsu.edu\/SocialWork<\/a> and click the M.S.W. Degree Program tab. A link to the application for admission is posted at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n<p>To speak with a social work faculty member, contact Stoddard at <a href=\"mailto:StoddardP@apsu.edu\">StoddardP@apsu.edu<\/a>, (931) 221-7108 or (931) 221-7730.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in Fall 2009, Austin Peay State University will offer a new Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree. The degree program, which requires 60 credit-hours of course work for completion, is open to graduates with a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work or in any other field. \u201cGoing into the profession requires someone who has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[23,262,829,830,831,832],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-e4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}