Introduction to Social Work and Human Services

Catalog description

This course includes a survey of helping institutions and social issues concerning human services and social welfare; identifying target populations, the historical perspective of human services and social welfare in the U.S., theoretical perspectives of human services and social welfare, survey of social service occupations and careers, and economics of the helping professions. Special attention is given to current service delivery systems, their policies and procedures, and the tasks of culturally responsive social workers and human service workers within those settings.