Human Service BA/BS
Learn about your community and social environment, improve your career opportunities to reach educational goals, and enhance specific human relations skills and strengthen your ability to work effectively in social services.
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Human Service – Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science
Human Service, BA/BS
Offered as a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Major
The Human Service Program prepares undergraduate students to become human service professionals with a broad and deep understanding of human behavior, society, and social justice from both a psychological and sociological perspective. Course work from both Psychology and Sociology complete the curriculum. The knowledge base is enhanced with skill-based courses that provide students with the necessary foundation to serve individuals and communities and advance human rights and social and economic justice. The Human Service Program provides students with the skills and knowledge to enhance the well-being of individuals and families and to help students to be informed about, and engaged in, social policy formation and community empowerment. Human Service graduates address key challenges in our community and region, such as homelessness, economic hardship, and hunger; problems associated with drug use; racial injustice; and family violence. Students in the program have close contact with faculty in a small class format.
Degree Fit
Program Distinction
91¶¶Òõ’s small class sizes and friendly learning environment foster close ties among students, faculty, and the community. The length of the degree completion program varies with each individual, depending on prior coursework and employment status.
Degree Roadmap
Students may enter the program at any time. Most students complete their upper-division Human Service coursework during their junior and senior years. This includes a guided practicum of 270 hours.
Capstone
Human Service majors complete a senior capstone project, which integrates and applies the skills and knowledge acquired in the human service coursework and the practicum. Students develop a social service program encompassing needs assessment, program rationale, objectives, methods, activities, and a plan for program evaluation.
Guided Pathways
Contact: Kelly Szott – 541.552.8254 – szottk@sou.edu
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91¶¶Òõ Sociology & Anthropology Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6761
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