Professional Studies AS – Social Work Option
Code: AS.PS.SOC.WK
The Social Work option is designed to train students for entry level positions in a variety of human and social service fields such as gerontology, domestic violence, residential care, developmental disability, child care, substance abuse, and juvenile justice. Through theoretical and experiential based learning, it provides students with competencies for assessment, advocacy, and intervention with individuals, small groups, and community organizations. Such skills are fundamental to the human services field.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Define the roles of the human services and social work professional.
- Understand the nature of human systems: individual, groups, organization, community and society, and how these systems interact in producing human problems.
- Explain the conditions which promote or limit optimal functioning and types of deviations from desired functioning in the major human systems (i.e., racism, sexism, and classism).
- Plan, implement, and evaluate interventions which promote growth and goal attainment.
- Apply basic level counseling and advocacy skills, and understand the functions of service agencies to typical problems encountered by a cross-section of populations at risk.
Career Pathways
Recommended Semester Sequence
First Semester
|
Free Elective** |
3 |
COM |
Communication Elective: Choose COM-100 or COM-102 |
3 |
Second Semester
|
Humanities Elective |
3 |
|
Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Tech - Recommended: BIO-103 or BIO-107 |
4 |
WRT-201 | English Composition II | 3 |
SOC-102 | Introduction to Human Services | 3 |
PSY-101 | General Psychology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: | 16 |
Third Semester
|
Humanities Elective
|
3
|
|
Humanities Elective
|
3 |
MAT |
Mathematics NSM Elective - Recommended: MAT-150 |
3
|
SOC-104 | Intro to Social Work | 3 |
PSY-102 | Introduction to Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: | 15 |
Fourth Semester
|
Natural Science Elective* |
4 |
|
Free Elective: recommended - ECO-101
|
3
|
SOC-222 | Ethnic & Minority Group Relations | 3 |
- | or | |
SOC-121 | The Changing Roles of Women | 3 |
SOC-293 | Co-Op Work Experience [Sociology] | 3 |
INF-102 | Introduction to Computing | 1 |
Total Credit Hours: | 14 |
General Education Requirements
Communication
Humanities Electives
Social Science
Required:
Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Technology
Program Requirements
SOC-101 | Sociology | 3 |
SOC-102 | Introduction to Human Services | 3 |
SOC-104 | Intro to Social Work | 3 |
SOC-103 | Sociology of the Family | 3 |
- | or | |
SOC-113 | Social Problems | 3 |
SOC-222 | Ethnic & Minority Group Relations | 3 |
- | or | |
SOC-121 | The Changing Roles of Women | 3 |
SOC-293 | Co-Op Work Experience [Sociology] | 3 |
PSY-102 | Introduction to Abnormal Psychology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: | 24 |
Free Electives*
Total Credit Hours: 30
Total Credit Hours: 60
Specific Program Notes
Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.
Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.
*General Education Elective(s).
**Recommended: IST-123 Success 101 or another Social Science elective.