Transferability

Transfer Pathways offer students a powerful option: the opportunity to complete an associate’s degree with course credits that directly transfer to designated bachelor’s degree programs at Minnesota State universities. The curriculum has been specifically designed so that students completing this pathway degree and transferring to one of the seven Minnesota State universities enter the university with junior-year status. All courses in the Transfer Pathway associate degree will directly transfer and apply to the designated bachelor’s degree programs in a related field. Universities within the Minnesota State system include Bemidji State University; Metropolitan State University; Minnesota State University, Mankato; Minnesota State University Moorhead; Southwest Minnesota State University; St. Cloud State University; and Winona State University.

Program Planners

Pre-Social Work Transfer Pathway

Program Outcomes

• Engage in diversity and difference in practice 
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts, theories, and strategies used in social work, and apply basic skills related to general education curriculum requirements for the pre-social work degree.
• Apply the ethics, values, and attitudes necessary for successful social work practice.
• Understand the role of diversity in assessing and meeting needs of client populations.
• Evaluate one’s own attitude, personality, interpersonal skills, and limitations.
• Advance Human Rights and Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice 
• Work together with individuals and groups to assess needs, promote strengths, manage problems, set goals, develop or access resources, implement and assess action plans.

Occupations

A graduate from the Minnesota North College Social Work Transfer Pathway will have acquired a preparatory understanding of the concepts, principles, skills, methods, and techniques of social work.  After obtaining a bachelor’s degree, a social worker may find work at local and regional service agencies as licensed social workers in the fields of school, family, medical, mental health, substance use, geriatrics, or clinical social work.