Human Services Degrees
A degree in human services will qualify you for work with organizations that work with people in a number of ways. Graduates from this program find work in treatment centers, adult day care facilities, hospitals, and correctional institutions. This degree program will prepare you for the following types of careers:
• Administrator
• Adult Services Worker
• Case Manager
• Child Welfare Worker
• Corrections Worker
• Halfway House Coordinator
• Elderly Services Provider
• Parole Officer
• Substance Abuse Worker
Concentrations in this degree program include the following:
• Behavioral Science
• Human Services Administration
• Social Services Administration
• Substance Abuse
Examples of courses you would take if you decided to major in human services are:
• Accounting for Managers
• Creating a Working Alliance
• Directed Reading I: Topics in the Human Services
• Economics of Health Care
• Health and Community Development
• Health Issues: Health and Healing
• Health Policy
• Introduction to Counseling
• Introduction to Human Resource Management
• Introduction to Labor Studies
• Introduction to Learning Disabilities
• Organization Theory
• Organizational Behavior
• Organizational Culture
• Organizations and Society: Making Sense of Modern Organizational Life
• Policies in the Human Services
• Practice and Policy in the Human Services
• Project Design
• Project Implementation
• Teaching and Learning for Health Professionals
• Thinking From Women’s Lives: An Introduction to Women’s Studies
• Women, Violence, and Social Change
