Community services requirements

The community services program is an interdisciplinary major that combines classroom study with practical application through extensive internship.

Objectives are to:

Increase student knowledge of the social work approach to solving human problems.
Help students gain intellectual skills, moral insight and humanistic concepts.
Encourage students to develop ethical and analytical thinking essential to professional life in social work, law, foreign service and teaching.
Prepare students desiring professional work as social workers and other human service practitioners.

The community services major is offered only at the University’s main campus.

General education core (45-51 semester hours)

Community services major (57 semester hours)

Lower division courses

Upper division courses

One upper-division course in economics.
One upper-division course in history or political science.
SOC 339 Introduction to Social Work: Methods and Ethics.
PSY 340 Interviewing (a prerequisite for SOC 339).
Three additional upper-division courses concentrating in one field, chosen from psychology, sociology, political science, history or economics.
A minimum of 12 semester hours of internship.
Senior seminar. Student selects a senior seminar from a Social Science discipline.

Before enrolling in an internship (CSP 390), students must meet the following requirements:

Completion of 12 semester hours of required major courses on the main campus.
Completion of SOC 339: Introduction to Social Work: Methods and Ethics, with a grade of "C" or better.
Have an overall grade point average of at least 2.5.

Please refer to the academic catalog for program requirements.