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HSER 1020 - Introduction to Human Services

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course provides a survey of the human services field which will include history of human service; education and training; worker roles; agencies, programs, and community resources; career and job opportunities; skills, knowledge, and values of the human service worker.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Employment/transfer options
  2. History/current human services trends
  3. Human service agencies, programs and target populations
  4. Human service consumer issues and concerns
  5. Human service worker program curriculum
  6. Human service worker values
  7. Models of service delivery
  8. Overview of multicultural issues in human services
  9. Overview of sub-fields within human services
  10. Roles and functions of the human services worker

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Define human services.
  2. Research options for internships.
  3. Identify community resources for human services.
  4. Present a personal and professional plan that will incorporate course information.
  5. Describe the history of human services and the changing nature of helping.
  6. Describe the role of the human service worker.
  7. Identify career opportunities in the human services field.


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