First year DAY students – concentration declaration due Sunday, 1/7

In Autumn quarter, we provided opportunities for you all to attend gatherings of each of the concentrations to facilitate your decision as to which concentration will work best for you. It is now time to choose your concentration and the process for declaring your concentration is relatively simple – you’ll log into STAR and answer 3 questions about how you are envisioning your advanced practicum – then we ask you which concentration you’d like to declare.

Please do this by Sunday, January 7th in order to allow us to start planning for next academic year.  It should take 10-15 minutes to complete, at the most.

STAR is found at:  https://star.ssw.washington.edu/secure/

• Click the “STAR” link in the “Get Access” box.  You will sign in using your UWNetID.
• You may go in and work on your learning plan and “SAVE” it as many times as you like until January 7^th, but please remember to “SUBMIT” before the 7^th.

IF YOU STILL CAN’T DECIDE —

If you’re still having difficulty deciding, please speak again with your field faculty member or contact the faculty associated with the concentrations you are considering asap – that contact info may be found in the “MSW Day/Advanced Standing|Overview of Concentrations” at: http://socialwork.uw.edu/students/msw/msw-dayadvanced-standing-overview-concentrations

You can also contact our Assistant Director of the MSW Program Aliyah Vinikoor at 206-543-3416 or aliyahv@uw.edu.

If you change your mind after you submit, you still may be able to change for another month or two, but switches will be approved on a space available basis and we will need to receive an email from your field faculty member, approving the change, before we could reopen your learning plan for you to edit.

ASSIGNMENT OF FACULTY ADVISORS

Around the beginning of February, you will all be assigned permanent faculty advisors from within your concentration.  We will let you know when these assignments have been done. We will be facilitating setting up meetings with your faculty advisors shortly thereafter.

WHEN DOES CONCENTRATION CHOICE TAKE EFFECT?

Once you declare your concentration in STAR, it will be reviewed by the field faculty and approved or they’ll ask for more clarification if anything is unclear.  You actually won’t be coded into your new concentrations until after Spring registration and your new concentration will take effect in early May for registration for Autumn Quarter 2018.

Any questions?  Please email Student Services, sswstsrv@uw.edu.

Best wishes and let us know if you have any questions!  Please have a wonderful, restful and stress-free break and come back refreshed in 2018!

Best,

Student Services

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