Admitted Students Day

An Overview of the Boring Stuff

• Who We Are
• What do I need to do now?
• Scheduling and Registration

Office of Student Services

What We Do (abridged)

• Manage class scheduling and registration
• Administer program requirements and academic policies
• Oversee degree certifications
• Coordinate student events
• Facilitate disability accommodations
• Do our best to remedy any issues, challenges that may be having an effect on you academically or otherwise.
• SUPPORT YOU!

We want to make your Columbia experience less like this...

And more like this...

If you only remember five things:

• Submit your immunization docs
• Complete your FAFSA
• Activate your UNI ID
• Submit your Field Form (2-year Only)
• Read our emails. ALL of them.

Registration Overview

Most information regarding registration including dates, guides, course information, and more can be found online.
http://socialwork.columbia.edu/current-students/registration-information

Wavier Exams

• OSS administers waiver exams for T6501 Social Work Research, T6801 Social Welfare Policy and T6009 Introduction to Statistics
• These exams are offered throughout the summer during information sessions in June and July as well as during Orientation week.

Transfer Credits

• Human Behavior and the Social Environment I & II
• Social Work Research
• Social Welfare Policy
• Electives (graduate level in a related field.

Please note:

• Eligible courses must have been completed at an accredited graduate school of social work with a B or better in the last five (5) years,
• CSSW will accept a maximum of nine (9) transfer credits (and of those nine, only 6 will be accepted as electives).

You will be registered for:

• T6009: Introduction to Statistics (0 credits)
• T6010: Field Education (4.5 Credits)
• T660A: Human Behavior and the Social Environment (3 Credits)
• T6501: Social Work Research (3 Credits)
• T6801: Social Welfare Policy (3 Credits)
• T7100: Foundations of Social Work (3 Credits)

Dual Degrees

• Bank Street
• Architecture (Urban Planning)
• Columbia Business School
• Columbia Law School
• Jewish Theological Seminary
• Mailman School of Public Health
• SIPA
• Union Theological Seminary

Minors

• Business Administration
• International Social Welfare
• Law
• Public Policy and Administration
• Criminal Justice

We coordinate with the Office of Disability Services (ODS) to provide reasonable accommodations and support services for students.

Knowledge | Community | Access

Knowledge

• Columbia School of Social Work has been a leader in social work education and research since 1898.
• Curriculum aims to prepare and develop leaders who will be able to create opportunities in any realm.
• CSSW is grounded in a very rich research and academic tradition.

Community

• A network of current students, alums (16,000 strong) and instructors.
• Your classmates: Stimulating, ambitious, like-minded individuals who have also made the decision to take their passion for social work to the next level.

Student life at CSSW is enriched by 25+ student caucuses, a student journal, and student-organized events such as Self-Care Day and Community Day (to name a few).

Access

• Exposure to speakers, conferences.
• The Arts Initiative
• New York City

CU provides unique access and exposure to speakers, conferences and lectures

Arts Initiative at CU

• Ticket discounts for Broadway and off-Broadway shows, operas, movie theaters, and cultural events across NYC.
• Free admission to 30+ cultural institutions in NYC.
• Promote your own event!

New York City

"As an urban center, New York is representative of the many problems, hopes, challenges, and opportunities facing individuals and societies around the world."

Dates to keep in mind:

• Orientation: Monday 8/29 - 9/2 (Mandatory
• Fall Courses Begin: Wed, 9/7
• Fall Courses End: Thu, 12/15
• Field Ed Resumes: Wed, 1/4/2017
• Spring Courses End: Thu, 4/27

“The impact of our faculty, students, and graduates on the wider world over the past five to ten years has been remarkable. Members of our faculty are doing ground-breaking intervention research on multiple dimensions of poverty-related issues that bear significant implications for the nation and the world. And our strength and breadth in clinical social work, along with policy, social enterprise administration, and advanced generalist practice and programming, are a noteworthy source of pride." - Dean Jeanette Takamura

We'll see you soon!