Description:
The Human Services (HUS) Program offers a career-track degree that is designed to prepare students for entry-level employment within a variety of helping professions. This curriculum provides an academic and experiential foundation for skill development. Core studies provide the student with opportunity to practice an essen tial set of generalist helping skills. Areas of focus include: knowl edge and practice of empathic listening, client interviewing and problem solving, advocating for clients within organizational struc tures, responding in crisis, and attending to multicultural perspec tives in case management. In their final semester, students enroll in a sixteen-hour a week internship that serves as a capstone to their studies. Internships in early childhood, family assistance, chemical dependency intervention, and gerontology are just a few of the areas where HUS students have successfully demonstrated profes sional skill.
Program Type:
Associate Degrees