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Spring 2018 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HSERV 101 - Introduction to Human Services

3 credits

A historical framework for the present delivery of human services in areas including income maintenance, children’s services, family services, aging, alcohol and substance abuse, mental health, and services for persons with disabilities in a multicultural society. Students learn about basic human needs and how unmet needs create social problems which require societal responses. The class explores the different methods, careers, and job opportunities in the various helping professions, and the goals of the human services curriculum in particular.