The curricular flexibility of the ?career focused track? as well as the portfolio option enable students to combine theoretical grounding with real world application through the supervised field experience, and their own work experience.

The program goals of the Bachelor of Arts in Human Services are to:

• introduce students to the methods of inquiry and research traditions of the behavioral sciences as applied to social policy;
• assist students to critically explore human and societal inequities and the theoretical, philosophical and ethical assumptions that define and structure human services;
• help students to discover the diversity of experience and differing opportunities as defined by gender, social class, race-ethnicity, age and collective identity;
• teach students effective critical thinking and communication skills;
• support those licensed professionals who advocate for clients and contribute to solutions to societal problems.