May 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook 
    
2025-2026 Catalog and Student Handbook

Social Work Emphasis (Tennessee Transfer Pathway), A.S.


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The Social Work emphasis provides students various foundational courses in the field of social work. The student completes the first two years of requirements leading toward a baccalaureate degree.

To facilitate success in this program, all students should enroll in ORN 1010 - Orientation: Learning to Succeed  during their first semester at DSCC.

Major/Concentration Codes: UTPS-USW

Use DegreeWorks to view a sample degree plan.

To view a sample degree map by semester for this area of emphasis, go to Degree Map.

Area of Emphasis Requirements:


 

Total: 60 Semester Hours


Footnotes:

(1) Students who plan to transfer to the UoM must complete at least one fine arts under the Humanities and Fine Arts general education requirement. Students are encouraged to take an approved Ethics course, if applicable.

(2) Students who intend to transfer to UoM should take LIT 2201 or LIT 2202 to fulfill this requirement. TSU also recommends a LIT sequence.

(3) ETSU requires a BIOL sequence: 1010: Intro to Biology and/1020 Diversity of Life or 1110/1120 General Biology I and II. TSU recommends any Biology sequence.

(4) APSU accepts Math 1510 or Math 1530.

(5) Students interested in attending ETSU are required to take a Social Work elective. If not offered at a student’s school, such a course can be completed via the TN eCampus.

(6) Students interested in attending TSU are required to take an Economics. Students interested in attending UoM or UTC are required to take an Anthropology.

(7) Students who intend to transfer to UTM should take BIOL 2010: Human Anatomy and Physiology I as an unspecified elective. Students who intend to transfer to APSU should take BIOL 2010 (Human Anatomy and Physiology) as one of their natural science electives.

(8.) For lists of eligible electives, see the appropriate section of the General Education Core Curriculum Requirements .

(9.) General electives must be selected from courses which are part of a Tennessee Transfer Pathway. Consult the Course Descriptions section in this catalog. Courses which are designated as **Not Part of a Tennessee Transfer Pathway** should not be taken as general electives.

(10) One course must be in literature.

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