Specific alterations in Human Services are designed to prepare students with more marketable professional skills and provide an expanded and intensified internship experience. Current plans call for additional monitoring of field experiences and internships in Human Services, and a more complete integration of field work with classroom activities. Students' responses on the University Survey of Degree Candidates indicated concern for the availability of sufficient elective courses and the adequacy of preparation for subsequent elective courses in the student' s area of interest. In response to this, the Department has initiated a change in scheduling which limits certain sections of classes to FCD majors, with appropriate restrictions in the number of students for each section, and makes other sections available without restriction on major or class size. This permits Departmental faculty to be assigned to classes which are considered to be fundamental to a major, with greater opportunity to provide close supervision and more individual attention to students in a smaller class.
Larger classes can provide greater availability of classes for elective purposes.
This course must deal in a substantial way with major issues of critical importance for the larger society. This course addresses one of the concerns of the College accrediting agency. Two courses in child development have been deleted. Two required courses have been added to the Human Services curriculum. Principles of Human Services II provides an introduction to assessment as it is related to service delivery and referral, information on responsibility of service providers in the matter of professional ethics and conduct, and knowledge of a variety of interventive practice methods.