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Dec 26, 2024
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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
- Employment/transfer options
- History/current human services trends
- Human service agencies, programs and target populations
- Human service consumer issues and concerns
- Human service worker program curriculum
- Human service worker values
- Models of service delivery
- Overview of multicultural issues in human services
- Overview of sub-fields within human services
- Roles and functions of the human services worker
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Define human services.
- Research options for internships.
- Identify community resources for human services.
- Present a personal and professional plan that will incorporate course information.
- Describe the history of human services and the changing nature of helping.
- Describe the role of the human service worker.
- Identify career opportunities in the human services field.
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