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Human Services

Course Offerings

Basic Courses

The following nine courses (30 credit hours) are required:

  • General Psychology: PSYC 101, three credits
  • Survey of Human Services: HMSV 101, three credits
  • Human Services Practices: HMSV 201, three credits
  • One course in Statistics: Criminal Justice, CRMJ 316; PSYC 304; Sociology, SOCL 301; or Social Work, SOWK 391, three credits
  • One course in Research Methods: CRMJ 315, PSYC 306, SOCL 206 or SOWK 390, three credits
  • One course in Urban Politics: Political Science, PLSC 333; 334; 390 or 391, three credits
  • One course in Clinical Competency: PSYC 368 or SOWK 303, three credits
  • Supervised Fieldwork I: CRMJ 390, PLSC 370, PSYC 390 or SOCL 380, three credits
  • Supervised Fieldwork II: HMSV 390, six credits

Concentration Area Courses

Three courses (nine credit hours) from one of the following three areas:

Child, Adolescent and Family Services

  • Juvenile Justice System: CRMJ 302, three credits
  • Child Sexual Abuse: CRMJ 395, three credits
  • Gender and Sex Differences and Similarities: PSYC 238, three credits
  • Developmental Psychology: PSYC 273, three credits
  • Adolescence: PSYC 348 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
  • Childhood and Society: SOCL 231, three credits
  • Families: SOCL 240, three credits
  • Child Welfare Services: SOWK 205, three credits
  • Social Welfare Policies and Services: SOWK 201, three credits
  • Children, Families and the Law: SOWK 308, three credits

Mental Health

  • Domestic Violence: CRMJ 372, three credits
  • Sexual Violence: CRMJ 395, three credits
  • Human Sexuality: PSYC 235, three credits
  • Abnormal Psychology: PSYC 331, three credits
  • Childhood Psychopathology: PSYC 346 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
  • Health Psychology: PSYC 373, three credits
  • Alcoholism and Drug Dependency: SOWK 361, three credits

Gerontology and Aging

  • Maturity and the Aging: PSYC 349 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
  • Aging in Culture and Society: SOCL 221, three credits
  • Birth, Work, Marriage and Death: SOCL 236, three credits

Elective Courses

Two courses (six credit hours), one from each of the following categories:

Social Solutions and Social Change

  • Crime, Race and Violence: CRMJ 372, three credits
  • Social Psychology: PSYC 275, three credits
  • Community Psychology: PSYCH 374, three credits
  • Social Problems: SOCL 121, three credits
  • Deviance and Society: SOCL 255, three credits
  • Movements for Social Justice: SOCL 261, three credits
  • Social Welfare Policy and Services: SOWK 201, three credits
  • Human Behavior and the Social Environment: SOWK 305, three credits

Human Diversity

  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: ANTH 102, three credits
  • World Culture: ANTH 271, three credits
  • African American Politics: PLSC 218, three credits
  • Women, Law and Public Policy: PLSC 319, three credits
  • Children, Law and Public Policy: PLSC 323, three credits
  • Psychology of Human Sexuality: PSYC 235, three credits
  • Psychology of Women: PSYC 340, three credits
  • Psychology Seminar: Racism and Prejudice: PSYC 398, three credits
  • Race and Ethnic Relations: SOCL 122, three credits
  • Inequality in Society: SOCL 250, three credits
  • Global Inequities: SOCL 252, three credits
  • Sociology of Sex and Gender: SOCL 271, three credits
  • Environmental Sociology: SOCL 272, three credits
  • American Black Men: SOWK 361, three credits
  • Cultural Diversity: SOWK 370, three credits