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Jun 05, 2025
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2024-2025 Course Catalog
Associate of Arts in Human Services Administration
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The Human Services Administration Program at the College prepares students for transfer and employment in social service agencies, schools, and other organizations. The well-planned program of study provides a unique combination of college coursework and human services field experience, which is valued by employers. Graduates can pursue a 4-year degree at a transfer institution in a human services field of study.
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General Education Requirements
Total Credits 60
Human Service Administration Requirements Note: In order for a student to be eligible to participate in an academic, community, or clinical program that involves potential unsupervised contact with children, the disabled, the elderly, or other vulnerable populations, the student may be required to undergo a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check and/or a Sex Offender Registry Information (SORI) check. *Program Electives for an AA in Human Services Administration: - PSY104 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment
- PSY105 - Psychology of Aging
- PSY222 - Special Topics in Psychology
- SOC101 - Introduction to Sociology
- SOC121 - Social Problems
- SOC202 - Cultural Aspects of Families & Children
- SOC203 - Introduction to Criminal Justice
- SOC207 - Law, Justice and Society
- SOC208 - ECE Systems and Policy in the Time of COVID-19
- HUS106 - Concepts and Practices in the Eldercare Network
- HUS203 - Foundations in Community Advocacy
- HUS204 - Child Welfare and Family Law
- HUS205 - Community Advocacy: From Knowledge to Action
- HUS206 - Community Advocacy: Internship
- HUS222 - Special Topics in Human Services Administration
- ECE104 - Child Growth and Development (Prenatal to Age Eight)
- ECE110 - The Exceptional Child
- ECE131 - Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children
- ECE213 - Caring for the Social and Emotional Development of Infants & Toddlers (0- 3)
- COM112 - Speech Communication for Health Professions
- COM113 - Communication and Conflict in the Helping Professions
The course must not be used to satisfy another program requirement. Alternative electives may be approved by the Human Services Program Chair. Program Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of all Human Services degree program requirements, graduates will be able to:
- Understand the nature of human systems: individual, group, organization, community and society, and their major interactions.
- Describe the underlying principles and possible causation of social problems and analyze strategies for change.
- Examine the ways institutions, service delivery systems, social policies, and funding mechanisms impact service delivery.
- Apply an understanding of human behavior to examine one’s own conduct as well as the behavior of others.
- Demonstrate skills, techniques, and intervention strategies needed for problem solving, crisis intervention and providing equitable social and emotional support to people of different cultural, ethnic, faith system, and socioeconomic backgrounds and abilities.
- Identify core principles in the Human Service field, including the values and ethics of the profession.
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