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):
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.
** Students may substitute appropriate graduate-level courses with permission of the Department Chair of 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):
Choose TWO (6 Credits):
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.