Program Overview
The program equips individuals with knowledge and skills in social welfare, disability, substance abuse, and cultural diversity. With a focus on practical applications, students gain valuable experience in working with diverse populations and preparing for careers in nonprofit organizations, state and federal agencies.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Add to your education by learning more about a range of human service fields. Human service professionals work to help others achieve their maximum potential. There is a high demand for trained human service workers in many settings including nonprofit organizations and state and federal agencies.
Careers:
Human service professionals work to help others achieve their maximum potential. There is a high demand for trained human service workers in many settings including nonprofit organizations and state and federal agencies.
Other:
- Program type: Minor
- Format: On Campus
- Est.
- time to complete: 2-3 semesters
- Credit Hours: 18
- Related Programs: Nonprofit Leadership Studies Minor, Behavior Analysis Minor
- Similar Areas of Study: Health & Wellness, Public Service
- College: College of Health and Public Service
- Department: Department of Social Work
Human Services Minor Courses You Could Take:
- Introduction to Social Work (3 hrs): History and philosophy of social work in the United States; social welfare agencies in the community and social services offered; requirements for professional social work practice.
- Disability and Society (3 hrs): Explores the historical and current treatment of persons with disabilities. Examines the impact of social institutions, public policy, and attitude on service provision, with emphasis on the impact current legislation and research have had on the marginalization and segregation of persons with disabilities.
- Drugs and Alcohol (3 hrs): Covers the psychological, biological and behavioral effects of substance use and addiction with particular focus on the impact of alcohol, cannabis, nicotine, opiates, stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens on mind, body and behavior.
- Policies, Issues and Programs in Social Welfare (3 hrs): Current social policies and issues affecting the development of social welfare services; relationships between basic societal values and social welfare services.
- Human Diversity for the Helping Professions (3 hrs): Promotes competence in the role of helping professionals with diverse and vulnerable populations. Focuses on sociopolitical, intrapersonal and socio-cultural factors affecting the complexities of the human experience. Enhances self-awareness and explores systematic processes of oppression. Conditions for culturally relevant change strategies and advocacy in a global society are examined.
- Microcounseling (3 hrs): Microcounseling skills and case presentation. Students learn and practice specific interpersonal communication and microcounseling skills related to human service delivery.
