Course Offerings
Basic Courses
The following nine courses (30 credit hours) are required:
- General Psychology: PSYC 101, three credits
- Survey of Human Services: HMSV 101, three credits
- Human Services Practices: HMSV 201, three credits
- One course in Statistics: Criminal Justice, CRMJ 316; PSYC 304; Sociology, SOCL 301; or Social Work, SOWK 391, three credits
- One course in Research Methods: CRMJ 315, PSYC 306, SOCL 206 or SOWK 390, three credits
- One course in Urban Politics: Political Science, PLSC 333; 334; 390 or 391, three credits
- One course in Clinical Competency: PSYC 368 or SOWK 303, three credits
- Supervised Fieldwork I: CRMJ 390, PLSC 370, PSYC 390 or SOCL 380, three credits
- Supervised Fieldwork II: HMSV 390, six credits
Concentration Area Courses
Three courses (nine credit hours) from one of the following three areas:
Child, Adolescent and Family Services
- Juvenile Justice System: CRMJ 302, three credits
- Child Sexual Abuse: CRMJ 395, three credits
- Gender and Sex Differences and Similarities: PSYC 238, three credits
- Developmental Psychology: PSYC 273, three credits
- Adolescence: PSYC 348 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
- Childhood and Society: SOCL 231, three credits
- Families: SOCL 240, three credits
- Child Welfare Services: SOWK 205, three credits
- Social Welfare Policies and Services: SOWK 201, three credits
- Children, Families and the Law: SOWK 308, three credits
- Domestic Violence: CRMJ 372, three credits
- Sexual Violence: CRMJ 395, three credits
- Human Sexuality: PSYC 235, three credits
- Abnormal Psychology: PSYC 331, three credits
- Childhood Psychopathology: PSYC 346 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
- Health Psychology: PSYC 373, three credits
- Alcoholism and Drug Dependency: SOWK 361, three credits
- Maturity and the Aging: PSYC 349 (prerequisite PSYC 273), three credits
- Aging in Culture and Society: SOCL 221, three credits
- Birth, Work, Marriage and Death: SOCL 236, three credits
Elective Courses
Two courses (six credit hours), one from each of the following categories:
Social Solutions and Social Change
- Crime, Race and Violence: CRMJ 372, three credits
- Social Psychology: PSYC 275, three credits
- Community Psychology: PSYCH 374, three credits
- Social Problems: SOCL 121, three credits
- Deviance and Society: SOCL 255, three credits
- Movements for Social Justice: SOCL 261, three credits
- Social Welfare Policy and Services: SOWK 201, three credits
- Human Behavior and the Social Environment: SOWK 305, three credits
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: ANTH 102, three credits
- World Culture: ANTH 271, three credits
- African American Politics: PLSC 218, three credits
- Women, Law and Public Policy: PLSC 319, three credits
- Children, Law and Public Policy: PLSC 323, three credits
- Psychology of Human Sexuality: PSYC 235, three credits
- Psychology of Women: PSYC 340, three credits
- Psychology Seminar: Racism and Prejudice: PSYC 398, three credits
- Race and Ethnic Relations: SOCL 122, three credits
- Inequality in Society: SOCL 250, three credits
- Global Inequities: SOCL 252, three credits
- Sociology of Sex and Gender: SOCL 271, three credits
- Environmental Sociology: SOCL 272, three credits
- American Black Men: SOWK 361, three credits
- Cultural Diversity: SOWK 370, three credits
