Social Work (JD/MSW)

1. Year One: Faculty of Law: Complete the first year of the JD program.
2. Year Two: Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work: Complete the first year of the MSW program, except students entering the MSW program with a B.S.W. degree who are exempted from completing the first year of the MSW program (normally year two of the 4-year combined JD/M.S.W. Program)
3. Years Three and Four - combined years:
   1. Faculty of Law: Successfully complete 35 upper year credits at the Faculty of Law in courses approved by the Director. Three of these credits must be earned in the required course, Exploring the Intersections of Law and Social Work. These 3 required credits are integrated credits. Course selection depends on the student's interests. Complete all graduation requirements in Law, including a moot, administrative law, an upper year ethics course, a perspective course, an intensive course, and an international/comparative/ transnational perspective course. 
   2. Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work: Successfully complete 4 half-courses. Students must complete all the requirements within their specific course of study.  Courses depend on specialization. Students are required to complete a practicum in second semester. There is a wide range of choices for practicum locations and the exact placement depends on each student's individual interests.
   3. In the third year, satisfy a field practicum placement (equivalent to 8 law credits). This placement enables students to work in a field setting for at least 450 hours, two days per week, for an entire academic year. Students are placed with organizations whose work in some manner touches upon the disciplines and practices of both law and social work. Past placements have included the Office of the Children's Lawyer, the special prosecutorial team assigned to child sexual abuse cases, the Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped, and the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation. Students should register in their practicum under a law school number when possible, bringing their  upper year law credit count to 43, in addition to integrated credits described below. 
   4. Successfully complete equivalent of 3 additional "integrated" credits through a directed research project, a Directed Readings course OR courses at Law and Social Work that the student designates as integrated courses and which are approved by the co-Directors of Law and Social Work.

Note: Notwithstanding the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work's course selection process, students must meet the Faculty of Law course selection deadline.

Students must submit their proposed course selections for years three and four of the program to the Director prior to the applicable course selection deadlines in each year in each Faculty. Any changes must also be approved by the Director.

Students enrolled in combined programs MUST complete the requirements of both programs in order to graduate in a combined program. No diplomas will be awarded until all the requirements for a combined program are fulfilled.

Applicants to the JD/MSW  program must apply for admission to both faculties independently within the time periods prescribed by the respective faculties. Students must meet the full admission requirements of both the Faculty of Law and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Students are admitted into the program upon successful admission into both faculties.

Students may also apply for admission to the combined degree program while enrolled in either the first-year of the JD program or the first-year of the MSW program. To gain admission, students must meet the normal admission requirements of the other Faculty and, upon admission, must notify the faculty registrar at the Faculty in which they are presently enrolled.