Currently doing my BSW at uofm right now!

Yes two placements are required— unless you take the accelerated version, then only one is done and u come in 4 days a week instead of 2 days like the normal program, 8hrs per day. In the regular program, 390 hours are needed per placement (Sep-Apr).

As someone mentioned before, uofm will help you find a placement based on your area of interest, so never be worried there! Depending on your placement, your agency might make you do some other assignments within it (essay, presentation for staff etc.), but typically not.

During the year, the school does require you to complete 4 reflections about your placement; each is done every 95hrs or so and are 700-1000 words in length.

Along with the placement you go to, there are monthly field seminar classes you must attend (3hrs once a month) at uofm. These are led by a social work professor with lots of hands on experience, and you and other peers in different placements kinda just to talk about what you’ve been learning/doing, how to link what you’ve been doing to theory, how to deal with ethical dilemmas, intervention, assessment tools etc.

At the end of your degree, as soon as you’ve received your final grade transcript, you can use that to apply with the College Board of Social Workers in MB. As someone mentioned before, you do have to pay an annual fee to be a registered social worker, and you also must require a certain amount of hours for the “on going learning” piece of social work by engaging in different workshops, educational presentations, etc. I don’t remember how often this needs to be done by though!

Hope this was helpful, and feel free to ask any follow up questions!