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2025-2026 Catalog SVC 
    
2025-2026 Catalog SVC

HSERV 199 - Practicum


Credits: 4
Variable Credit Course: Yes

Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 132
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Supervised practicum in an approved human services agency site. Structured learning and development of workplace skills. Opportunity for application of critical thinking skills, pluralism, and communication skills within human services systems. Concurrent enrollment in HSERV 200. Required for both Human Services degrees (not required for fast track students).

Prerequisite: HSERV 101 and HSERV 198 with a C or higher.
Strongly Recommended:
Special Requirements:

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes
  1. Identify appropriate work place behaviors and demonstrate them.
  2. Demonstrate an improved understanding of documentation skills, consistent with professional and ethical human services standards.
  3. Identify technology currently employed at practicum worksites and demonstrate proficiency gained from using the technology.
  4. Discuss the purpose and content of policies and procedures manuals for the human services setting in which the job training occurred.
  5. Accept the written and verbal feedback provided by the job training site supervisor and plan for its implementation.
  6. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Demonstrate capability in case management tasks such as assessment, equitable access to services, treatment planning, documentation, and referral process.

Course Contents
  1. Appropriate work place behaviors.
  2. Documentation skills consistent with professional and ethical human services standards.
  3. Technology currently employed at practicum worksites and proficiency gained from using the technology.
  4. Purpose and content of policies and procedure manuals for the human services setting in which the job training occurred.
  5. Written and verbal feedback provided by the job training site supervisor and plan for its implementation.


Instructional Units: 6