2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Dec 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

Human Services, Minor


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About the Human Services Minor

Human services is one of the fastest-growing fields in the country. The Human Services minor emphasizes personal growth, theory-based practices, and experiential learning through fieldwork placement.

This undergraduate program provides both the academic and experiential background for the student seeking a career working with diverse populations in the varied and expanding field of Human Services.

Focus of Study

The Human Services field aims to meet the needs of individuals and communities by utilizing interdisciplinary knowledge and innovative human relations skills. Human Services enhance support delivery systems by ensuring quality, accessibility, accountability, and coordination among professionals and agencies. Human Services aims to assist individuals in various life circumstances, offering support during prevention, intervention, and remediation life stages.

Being a human service worker is a unique role that involves assisting individuals and communities to function effectively. It requires a strong moral commitment to serving others, and employers value individuals who display patience, understanding and care in their interactions with others.

Important Personal Traits for a Human Services Worker:

  • Critical thinking skills
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Effective communication 
  • Strong sense of responsibility
  • Sufficient time management

Program Requirements

A minimum of 24 credit hours must be completed.

Program Coursework

  Courses
Required Core
18 Credit Hours
Elective Choices
6 Credits Hours

Program Fieldwork

The Department of Counseling and Human Services offers a variety of fieldwork sites for you to participate in during your fieldwork experience.

In the COUN 2950 Fieldwork in Human Services I Course, students receive guidance on the fieldwork search, application, and expectations process through an orientation session.

 

Campus Connections Fieldwork Experiences
The Campus Connections Program at UCCS matches current students with service-learning fieldwork opportunities, where they can mentor young people in the local community.

Mentors commit to spending four hours each week providing one-on-one therapeutic assistance that centers on academic, career, and social skill advancement. For more details, visit the Campus Connections page.

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