Program Track Options

Learn to better understand military culture and allow your professional practice to meet the unique needs of active military members, veterans and their families. You will learn to provide mental health therapy, crisis intervention, counseling and other services in a variety of professional settings that serve military clients.

Learn how to help pre-K–12 students overcome challenges outside the classroom that may affect their ability to thrive at school. This track also fulfills many of the in-classroom and field education requirements for the Pupil Personnel Services Credential, which you will need to practice school social work in California.

Explore issues ranging from drug abuse to elder care to health care legislation. This track looks closely at human behavioral theory with an emphasis on clinical practice and policy. You will explore the role of neuroscience as it relates to the mind-brain-body system, as well as social systems including family, culture and community.

Prepare to advocate for and intervene on behalf of children and youth in their respective social environments. Train to work in direct practice with these individuals, and their families, and help them to rise above adversity and recover from crises, including poverty, homelessness and substance abuse.

Become a big-picture thinker who solves community problems while supporting the needs of individuals and their communities. Focus on how social work innovation applies to global systems, and explore evidence-based research in both business and community development through coursework in organizational leadership, juvenile justice, policy and more.