Human Services

The Bachelor of Science in Human Services is designed to prepare you for professional positions in the broad career area known as "Human Services." While this area frequently refers to mental health programs, it also includes work in area such as youth counseling, community services for special needs populations, transitional assistance services, health care gerontology, and many other areas of people services.

Requirements provide you with a foundation in the Arts and Sciences and then build on that with courses in Human Resource Development, Psychology, and Sociology. You can major in Administration, Gerontology, or Holistic Health Studies. If you are a registered nurse who graduated from a diploma program, there is a separate program for you which awards 75 transfer credits for the diploma and your nursing license.

Administration

This major prepares you for work in a variety of human service agencies and organizations. Business courses support the management or administrative side of the human service function.

We recommend that you use electives to develop a second area of concentration related to your individual goals. Possible second concentrations include, but are not limited to, fields such as Gerontology, Education, Management, Sociology, and Spanish.

Diploma Nurse

This program offers you an opportunity to develop skills and knowledge that supplement your nursing education. Some of the reasons to consider this degree include:

• Advancement to non-technical health care positions
• Lateral career movement into non-health care positions
• Preparation for application to graduate study in health care and non-health care fields

You will need to submit proof that you are a Registered Nurse and that you have had a least one year in nursing during the last five years. Seventy-five transfer credits are accepted for three-year training program graduates; the number of transfer credits may be adapted on an individual basis for Associate Degree nurses.

In addition to transfer credits, you must complete a core of Liberal Arts courses as well as courses in Human Relations, Psychology, and Business.