HUMS 222 - Field Exp. in Human Services

Credits: 3
This is a combined field work and field seminar course. Students spend 90 hours as interns in a social service agency in direct contact with agency workers and agency service population, and under the task supervision of a professionally qualified agency employee. They spend an additional 12.5 hours in seminar. Interviewing and counseling skills learned in earlier program courses are applied in the field setting. Additional skills are acquired in the lecture and integrated into the field setting as the semester progresses. All these skills are reinforced and expanded upon through the production of process recordings or project logs, which are shared and analyzed in the seminar component of the course. PREREQUISITE:Completion of 21 credits toward the A.S. in Human Services: PreSocial Work; HUMS120 (Grade of C or Higher); or Permission of Program Coordinator