BSW Program

All correspondence with Carleton University faculty and staff must be done through your Carleton email account. You can access your Carleton email once you have activated your MyCarletonOne account.

It is your responsibility to check this email account regularly as the University and the School of Social Work will use this as the main point of contact for students.

Students are responsible for registering for all their courses and for ensuring that they are meeting academic requirements, regulations and deadlines when making any changes to registration/student timetable. All registration is done through Carleton Central, with time-tickets opening for registration for the Fall-Winter terms at the end of June-beginning of July each year.

Students are given a specific time-ticket for when registration will open to them. Generally students can access information on their time-ticket sometime in June prior to registration opening, under Step 1: Getting Started on Carleton Central under the Registration section. Students can begin with reviewing the course offerings and build draft worksheets for their Fall and Winter timetables starting May 27, 2024 for the 2024-25 academic year, this tool can be accessed under the Registration section on Carleton Central titled Build Your Timetable/Registration and will be accessible until registration opens in the end of June-beginning of July.

Please be advised that registration opens for BOTH the Fall and Winter terms at the same time, therefore it is important that students ensure to register for both terms as soon as possible. The longer students take to register then the more likely that courses will fill up and result in more challenges for accessing courses/building your schedule.

If you get a restriction when trying to register for a course, students can submit a Course Registration Override Request if you feel you have a valid reason to be in the course. To confirm the requirements and/or restrictions for registering for specific courses please view the courses section of the Undergraduate Calendar.

If you are receiving an Error message when attempting to register you can contact the department offering the course for more information or reach out to the Registrar’s Office for registration support.

The “Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA” that are outlined on the academic audit are referred to as the Elective Requirements of the degree. There are 3 sections of the Credits Not Included in the Major CGPA, generally this includes (please be advised that this will vary depending on year of entry into the program) 2.0 credits in related programs, 6.0 credits not in Social Work, and 1.5 credits in Free Electives.

An elective can be classified either as a course outside the Major (not Social Work), which can be found by searching the different subjects on Carleton Central. Some examples include searching specific subjects such as Psychology – PSYC, Criminology and Criminal Justice – CRCJ, Sociology – SOCI, Indigenous Studies – INDG and so on. It is important to note that all courses have Undergraduate Calendar requirements in order to register in the course. The other kind of elective is a free elective, this is classified as taking any course which can include a Social Work elective. In order to take a SOWK course as a free elective it must either be a course outside of your major requirements (i.e. SOWK 2301, 3206, 3207, 4209, 4210, or other special SOWK topics courses, and SOWK 4908) OR an additional SOWK 4000-level course apart of your Major Requirements (i.e. SOWK 4001 and 4003, or SOWK 4103 and 4204).

Students will want to be aware that there is limited free elective space, so if they are considering taking any SOWK electives then it is important to check your audit to ensure you have free elective requirements remaining for your degree and to not take any excess credits.

Keep in mind that searching for elective courses can be a bit more time consuming compared to your core SOWK courses, as this requires you to search up different subjects and course descriptions to narrow down your elective choices. To find an elective, it’s helpful to search through all the subjects or specific subjects you are interested in from other fields of study and review course descriptions. Electives are a good way to broaden the scope of your studies, but you want to make sure that the courses you pick will count towards your degree. You can check this if you register for an elective and you run your academic audit on Carleton Central. Your audit will either indicate where that course falls in your degree requirements or if it doesn’t count for your degree it will show up in the “Courses Set Aside” section at the bottom of the audit. If you’re ever unsure about whether or not an elective will count towards your degree requirements, you welcome to contact the Undergraduate Administrator to confirm.

To confirm the requirements and/or restrictions for registering in specific courses, please view the courses section of the Undergraduate Calendar.

For step-by-step instructions, information and how-to videos for navigating Carleton Central please see the Registrar’s Office webpage on Registration linked here. Additional support can be found through the Student Registration Assistance Team, who are available from May 22 – September 17 for support with general registration assistance, first year course selection, building a conflict free timetable, Carleton Central navigation, providing elective options, and referrals to other campus services.

Please note that the Student Registration Assistance Team can only provide general registration support. Any academic advising on your specific degree requirements and audit would be available through the Undergraduate Administrator, Gabrielle Crete, in the School of Social Work.