Human Services - Suffolk County Community College

Human Services from Suffolk County Community College is a Campus Associate Human Science degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. This curriculum provides opportunities both for students seeking transfer to bachelor degree programs in social work, counseling or human services as well as for students seeking employment in human services upon graduation. Human services is a broadly defined, multidimensional helping profession that assists individuals, families and groups to meet challenges in their ability to cope during life transitions, crisis, and when under stress. Human service professionals are employed in a variety of fields including mental health, health, developmental disabilities, child welfare, corrections, services to youth, the elderly and to those who are homeless or poverty stricken. It is an eclectic field requiring a strong liberal arts background with an emphasis on the social and behavioral sciences as well as courses providing a foundation in the history, methods, theory and helping skills of the human service profession. Courses in the curriculum include a two semester practicum providing students a supervised fieldwork experience in a local human service agency. Students complete 140 field hours in HUS201 and 180 field hours in HUS211. Some field sites require a criminal background check and/or additional health requirements which must be met at the student's expense. Students seeking to transfer to a bachelor's degree program are advised to consult the intended transfer institution to ensure a successful transfer. The program has agreements with Adelphi University, Molloy College, Long Island C.W. Post Campus and SUNY at Stony Brook School of Social Welfare which facilitate the acceptance of all credits to their bachelors degrees in social work. Curriculum-specific courses are offered Primarily on the Ammerman campus. Other courses may be completed at any of the college's campuses. HUS101, Introduction to Social Welfare, is open to all students and serves as a social science or unrestricted elective in liberal arts curricula as well as the first course in the Human Services program sequence. The final Three program courses (HUS201, HUS205 and HUS211) are offered only during the day. Other courses are offered both day and evening. HUS103 is offered only in the spring semester. Students must achieve a minimum passing grade of C in each Human Services (HUS) course in order to continue to the next course in the Human Services Program and to qualify for graduation. View more details on Suffolk County Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Human Science courses.