Practitioners in internship placement settings serve as adjunct faculty. The Department of Human Relations was established in 1970 with the mission to train professionals in the field of human relations. Emphasis is placed on understanding individual, group, and organizational behaviors. To provide students with the knowledge and competence necessary to function effectively as professionals in a wide range of human service careers.
Emphasis is placed on developing skills related to understanding multicultural group behaviors.
To prepare students for effective leadership in conflict situations which require data analysis and coordination of individual and group efforts. To encourage students to work for the provision of equal opportunities for minority groups and women, and to seek solutions to other community, state, regional, national, and international problems. Since its inception, the Department has graduated a large number of ethnic minorities, women, older persons returning to college, and international students. Each student pursuing a Master of Human Relations degree is expected to initiate curriculum planning with a major adviser within the first semester. This planning will identify course sequences which seem most likely to lead to mastery in one or more areas of concentration.