Fay A. Miller DEAN The School of Health and Human Services brings together the departments in the University which have as their focus the preparation of competent, creative practitioners to meet the health and human service needs of society. Students are also provided with a solid background for pursuing graduate study in their particular field.
All programs require a strong liberal arts base as a prerequisite to professional course work.
Students have meaningful opportunities to work with clients - consumers while they simultaneously acquire the skills and values of their professional degree major. Faculty members and students learn together and explore how practice, research, and theory building interact as they respond to such community health and human service issues as alcohol and substance abuse, AIDS, family violence, child abuse, primary health care needs, elderly recreation services, and the relationship between poverty and nutrition.