PhD Social Welfare at University of Pennsylvania

All students in the program are responsible for the successful completion of the required classes listed in the Social Welfare curriculum. All required and elective coursework must be at the graduate level and must be completed before a student can be eligible to take the Preliminary Exam followed by the defense of the dissertation proposal. Successful defense of the dissertation proposal (also known as the candidacy exam) admits the student to candidacy for the Ph.D.

Faculty: School of Social Policy and Practice  |  Duration: 23 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 23 course units in total. Listed required courses include SOCW 6300 Quantitative Reasoning/Social Statistics; SOCW 8030 Advanced History and Philosophy of Social Welfare; SOCW 8110 Social Theory; SOCW 8520 Social Welfare Research Methods; SOCW 8540 Introduction to Qualitative Research: Epistemology, Design, and Analytic Judgment; SOCW 8610 Advanced Policy Analysis Research Methods.

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