Aug 10, 2025  
2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC

HSERV 101 - Introduction to Human Services


Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Overview of the delivery systems in social services with focus on historical perspectives, equity, and current trends. (Required course for students seeking a Human Services degree).

Prerequisite: CSS 103 with a C or higher or concurrent enrollment.
Strongly Recommended:
Special Requirements:

General Education Requirements: Fulfills Integrate General Education Requirement
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify what a human service delivery system is and how it works.
  2. Identify various employment roles found within human services work settings.
  3. Compare and contrast social care, social control, & rehabilitation models of human services.
  4. Identify a minimum of five ethical and legal challenges faced by human services professionals.
  5. Define Evidence-based Best Practices.
  6. Research Evidence-based Best Practices program models.

Course Contents
  1. Human service delivery system is and how it works.
  2. Various employment roles found within human services work settings.
  3. Social care, social control, & rehabilitation models of human services.
  4. A minimum of five ethical and legal challenges faced by human services professionals.
  5. Evidence-based Best Practices.
  6. Evidence-based Best Practices program models.


Instructional Units: 5