Human Services Minor 15 credits

This minor offers students the opportunity to explore a range of approaches to human services delivery and change, addressing a variety of personal, interpersonal, or environmental stressors.  The minor provides students with two different tracks from which to choose, either the Macro Track or the Micro Track.

Macro Track

The Macro Track offers students the opportunity to focus on initiating change on the community and societal levels through a variety of interventions including community organizing, advocacy, policy development, or economic development and administration (systemic change).

Required Core (9 Credits):

CHMSR 1551	Foundations and Systems in the Helping Professions	3
CHMSR 2301	Power, Privilege & Practice	3
CHMSR 3303	Micro/Macro Assessment	3

Choose TWO courses (6 Credits):

At least one of the courses chosen below must be at or above the 3000  level. Students may take CPLCY 3552 or CPLCY 4441.

CPOLS 2401	Drug Wars	3
CPOLS 3450	HBO's The Wire: The Politics of U.S. Urban Inequality	3
CPSYC 2402	Child Homelessness	3
CPSYC 3439	Organizational Psychology	3
CSOCL 1404	Social Problems	3
CSOCL 2402	Sociology of Family	3
CSOCL 3016	Social Issues in Aging	3
CSOCL 3551	Activism and Change in Communities	3
CSOCL 4130	Gender and Globalization	3
CSWRK 2201	Social Welfare Policy and Practice	3
CSWRK 2401	Allyship for Disability Justice	3
CSWRK 3301	Challenging Racism	3
CSWRK 3550	Human Behavior in the Social Environment	3
CPLCY 3552	Social Policy	3
	OR
CPLCY 4441	Global Child and Family Policy	3

** Students may substitute appropriate graduate-level courses with permission of the Division Director for Social Sciences

Micro Track

The Micro Track offers students the opportunity to focus on a range of direct interventions designed to support behavioral or interpersonal change for children, adolescents, and/or adults in a variety of human service settings (individual or small group change).

Required Core (9 Credits):

CHMSR 1551	Foundations and Systems in the Helping Professions	3
CHMSR 3303	Micro/Macro Assessment	3
CPLCY 3552	Social Policy	3

Choose TWO (6 Credits):

CBIOL 2502	Essentials of Health	3
CPSYC 3405	Understanding Psychological Diagnoses	3
CPSYC 3422	Trauma and Crisis	3
CPSYC 3424	Counseling Children, Adolescents and Young Adults	3
CPSYC 3427	Family Interventions	3
CSOCL 1404	Social Problems	3
CSWRK 2401	Allyship for Disability Justice	3
CSWRK 3201	Case Management in Social Work and Counseling	3
CSWRK 3301	Challenging Racism	3
CSWRK 3350	Forensic Social Work	3

For Human Services Minors, one component of the student’s experiential learning requirement in their major must be in a human services setting or a setting that provides the opportunity for micro or macro skill development.