Academic Resources
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Academic Information and Resources
Explore detailed curricular information and course descriptions for each of our programs, and find important information and forms related to course registration and program policies. Students are also invited to explore SP2’s many global opportunities.
Course Registration and Student Handbooks
Find course registration information and access the student handbooks.
Course Scheduling
Please view course schedules and details using the links below. For a complete list of University of Pennsylvania courses and room assignments in all departments, please visit the Registrar’s page(opens in a new tab).
Academic Advising
Each student is assigned an academic advisor who helps you make the maximum use of the School and University’s resources for a rich academic experience. Please check Path@Penn(opens in a new tab) for your advisor assignment.
Advanced Standing: Matthew Sato
First Year Full-time New Students: Matthew Sato
Full-time Continuing Students: Kate Ledwith, Kim McKay, Emily Rich, Rebecca Tamayo-White
Part-time New & Continuing Students: Zareah Bishop
Dual Degree & Submatriculate Students: Mai Le
Please check Path@Penn(opens in a new tab) for your advisor assignment. MSSP Academic Advisors will be assigned near the start of the fall semester in order to ensure advisors have adequate time to transition out of their advising obligations with graduating students and into advising our incoming students.
Until academic advisors are assigned, MSSP program staff are available to assist with questions at msspprogram@sp2.upenn.edu.
On-campus: Sue Perls
Online: Vanessa Martinez
PhD students are advised by a member of SP2’s faculty. Learn more in the PhD Academic Resources Advising section.
Sample Course Syllabi
The syllabi are meant to give prospective class registrants an understanding of class content and are not intended to be used as official course syllabi. You must sign in with your PennKey and password in order to access sample syllabi.
- SWRK 6010: History & Philosophy of Social Work & Social Welfare(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 6020: Human Behavior in the Social Environment I(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 6030: American Racism & Social Work Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 6040: Foundations of Social Work Practice & Field Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 6140: Foundations of Social Work Practice & Field Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 6150: Introduction to Social Work Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7010: Health Policy(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7020: Social Work in Health Care(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7030: Impacting Government: Policy Analysis & Coalition Building(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7040: Advanced Social Work Practice: Clinical Practice I(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7060: Policies for Children & Their Families(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7080: Advanced Social Work Macro Practice I(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7100: Clinical Supervision(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7110: Contemporary Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7110: Professional Seminar in Urban Family(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7130: Understanding Social Change: Issues of Race and Gender(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7140: Advanced Social Work Practice: Clinical Practice II(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7160: Comprehensive School Reform(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7170: Art and Social Work – Art and the Ecology of Justice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7180: Advanced Social Work Macro Practice II(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7190: Infancy & Early Childhood Development(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7200: Middle Childhood & Adolescence(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7210: Social Work Healthcare Seminar(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7220: Practice With Children & Adolescents(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7230: LGBTQ Certificate Proseminar(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7240: Developmental Disabilities(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7260: Brief Treatment & Crisis Intervention(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7270: Social Work Intervention in the Family(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7280: Ethnicity & the Family(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7290: Social Statistics(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7300: Community Mapping(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7310: Child Welfare Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7320: Integrative Seminar in Child Welfare(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7360: Building Community Capacity: Community Economic Development(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7370: Bioethics and Social Work in Diverse Healthcare Settings(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7380: Anxiety & Depression(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7400: Strategic Planning & Resource Development(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7410: Gender and Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7420: Practice With At-Risk Youth(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7430: Action Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7440: Direct Practice Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7460: Political Social Work(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7480: Microfinance in India(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7490: Civil Society Activities Promoting Shared Society in Israel(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7500: Social Policy and the Latinx Community(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7550: International Social Work in the Global South(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7560: Human Sexuality(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7570: Loss Through the Life Cycle(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7590: Substance Use Interventions(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7600: Mental Health Diagnostics(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7610: Spirituality & Social Work Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7630: Global Human Rights and US Immigration: Implications for Policy and Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7650: Human Resource Development & Supervision(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7680: Social Policy Issues Through Literature(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7690: Aging: The Intersection of Policy & Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7700: Social Welfare & the Law(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7710: Social Work Values & Ethics(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7730: Mental Health Challenges in Childhood & Adolescence(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7740: Program Evaluation(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7750: Intimate Violence(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7770: Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention in Social Work(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7780: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7800: Policy & Difference in Post-modernity(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7810: Qualitative Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7820: Mental Health Practice with US Veterans(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7830: Advanced Mental Health Practice with Veterans(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7850: Criminal Justice Policies(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7860: Addressing Trauma in Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7870: Social Impact Strategy & Analysis(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7880: Harm Reduction on the Borders: Substance use and HIV treatment in Puerto Rico(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7920: Psychodynamic Theory(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7930: Global Health Policy and Delivery(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7940: Practice with Older Adults and Families(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7960: Family Economic Mobility(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Animals and Social Work: Theory and Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Social Work in the Affordable Care Act Era(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: The Social Entrepreneurial Approach to Community Reintegration(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: LGBTQ Communities and Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Practice with Groups(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Housing Policy and Social Inclusion(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: International Social Work: Practicing in the Global South(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Social Work Practice with Couples(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Global Social Impact 360(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment in India(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Participatory Film: A Community-Based Approach(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Psychodynamic Theory(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Critical Race Theory(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Social Impact Strategy, Analysis, and Leadership(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: School Social Work(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Consultation with Children and Families(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: The Ghetto(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Supporting LGBTQ+ Individuals Across the Lifespan(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Motivational Interviewing(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Taking Down the Prison Industrial Complex(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Social Work from a Global Perspective(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 7980: Social Policy and the Latinx Community(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8030: History and Philosophy of Social Welfare(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8040: Quantitative Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8050: Qualitative Research Methods(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8110: Social Theory(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8120: Clinical Theory I(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8130: Theory for Clinical Social Work(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8150: Penn Dissertation Workshop I(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8520: Social Welfare Research Methods(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8550: Advanced Research Methods(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8610: Methods for Policy Research(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8990-01: Structural Equation Modeling(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 8990-02: Applied Linear Modeling(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 9000: DSW Course Module in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 9010: Doctoral Proseminar(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 9030/9040: Integrative Seminar(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 9040: Teaching Social Work Practice(opens in a new tab)
- SWRK 9680: Social Welfare & Economics(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 5140: The Politics of the Welfare State(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6060: The Data for Equitable Justice Lab(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6070: Practical Programming for Data Science(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6080: Practical Machine Learning Methods(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6280: Policy: Analysis of Issues, Strategy and Process(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6290: Research & Evaluation Design(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6300: Quantitative Reasoning / Social Statistics(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6310: Law and Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6320: Capstone Seminar I(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6340: MSSP/DA Capstone I(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 6680: Economics for Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7030: Ethics, Art, and Resistance: Visual Techniques for the Contestation of an Unjust World(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7040: Critical Studies in Health & Policymaking(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7060: Behavioral Economics & Social Policy Design(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7100: Democratizing Data: Analytics for Social Change(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7300: Community Mapping(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7410: Gender and Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7500: Women Leaders & Emerging Democracies(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7550: International Social Policy & Practice: Perspectives from the Global South(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7680: Social Policy Through Literature(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7800: Policy & Difference in Postmodernity(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7960: Family Economic Mobility: Problems& Policies(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7970: Whose Colony? Politics, Identity and Social Policy in Revolutionary Cuba (1959 – 2017)(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7980: Global Abolition Decolonization and Social Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7980: Qualitative Methods in Policy Research(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7980 Reproductive Justice Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 7980: Special Topics: Criminal Legal System Policy(opens in a new tab)
- MSSP 8970: Applied Linear Modeling(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5490: Leading Nonprofits(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5610: Nonprofit Branding(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5620: (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Nonprofit Law(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5630: Raising Philanthropic Capital(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5640: Social Impact and International Development(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5650: Financial Management of Nonprofits(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5660: Social Media Strategies(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5670: Unleashing Large Scale Social Movement(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5680: Strategic Marketing for Social Impact(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5700: Understanding Philanthropy: Power, Politics, and Social Change(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5710: Major Gifts: Strategies in Practice(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5720: Design for Recovery(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5800: Nonprofit Governance(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5820: International Nonprofits and Development(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5830: Social Impact Measurement(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5850: Penn Social Impact Lab(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5870: Empowering Nonprofit Leaders to Thrive(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5890: Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Impact (On-campus)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5890: Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Impact (Online)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5920: Innovations & Advances in Public-Private Collaborations & Contracting(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5930: Design Thinking for Social Impact (On-campus)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5930: Design Thinking for Social Impact (Online)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5970: Social, Public, and Law Policy for Nonprofits(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 5980: Nonprofits and Urban Revitalization(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7200: Data Analysis for Social Impact (On-campus)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7200: Data Analysis for Social Impact (Online)(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7300: The Difficult Art of Listening(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7500: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Partnerships and Practice(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7520: Energy, Innovation, and Impact in the Global South(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7620: Nonprofit Law(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7810: Understanding & Managing Volunteers for Impact(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7820: Group Dynamics(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7830: Field Exercise in Social Impact Measurement(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7840: The Nonprofit Sector: Concepts and Theories(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7860: Strategic Management and Leadership of Nonprofits(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7870: Leadership Theory and Practice(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7880: Social Impact Entrepreneurship Meets Mass Incarceration(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7900: Social Finance(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7920: Social Entrepreneurship(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7940: Fundraising & Philanthropy: The Donor Journey(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7950/5950: Philanthropy and the City(opens in a new tab)
- NPLD 7960: Philanthropy and Fundraising Tools for Managers of Nonprofit Organizations(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 8030: History and Philosophy of Social Welfare(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 8110: Social Theory(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 8520: Social Welfare Research Methods(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 8550: Advanced Research Methods(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 8610: Methods for Policy Research(opens in a new tab)
- SOCW 9010: Doctoral Proseminar(opens in a new tab)
Global Opportunities
SP2 takes seriously its responsibility to prepare students for leadership positions both nationally and internationally, and thus has created a wide range of global opportunities.
Get in Touch
Reach out to our team with questions about admissions, student services, or commencement.
Andrea M. Porter, MLA
Director of Student Information & Registrar
Phone: 215 898 5548
Email: sp2reg@sp2.upenn.edu
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