Human Service
Program Type: Major, Minor
Program Level: Undergraduate
Department: Arts and Humanities
GROW YOUR CAREER IN THE HELPING PROFESSIONS THROUGH A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
Do you want a career focused on helping others? Are you fascinated by learning more about human nature?
Specializing in helping working adults complete their undergraduate degree, Mount Marty’s Watertown campus offers a Bachelor of Arts in human service to give you a great foundation for career or graduate studies in counseling, social work or occupational therapy. Choose from two tracks: disability services or social services.
Your Mount Marty studies of human behavior will be conducted through the lens of our Catholic Benedictine values, with compassion and genuine concern for others — fulfilling our mission to educate you to learn, serve and make an impact.
Human service careers include:
- case management,
- community service organizations,
- public relations,
- human resources,
- court services,
- probation,
- and dozens of other occupations devoted to making a difference.
The Human Service program fosters sociological and psychological insight into human behavior, teaches students to apply it and helps you prepare for the next step in your career.
- Gain a broad theoretical basis in understanding human behavior from a psychological and sociological perspective.
- Understand and apply different research methods.
- Learn more about ethical issues related to search and social behavior.
- Examine factors such as gender, race and income, and use those findings to shed light on issues such as abuse and neglect, youth at risk, chemical dependency and inequality.
Take elective courses in juvenile justice, marriage and family or psychology of the exceptional child, and work side by side with faculty to conduct a research study and develop an applied research project.
Human service students have completed internships and service learning experiences at many area institutions, including: The Human Service Agency, Beacon Center, Benedictine Multicultural Center and area school districts.
Within their program of study, Mount Marty students can also meet course requirements for seeking certification as a Level One Drug and Alcohol Counselor in the State of South Dakota following graduation.
Are you a transfer student hoping to gain your bachelor’s degree at MMU after completing an associate degree at LATC? Take advantage of a simplified transfer process thanks to an articulation agreement between our two schools. Students enrolled in an academic degree program at LATC who complete all requirements for their designated Associate of Applied Science in human services technician (activity technician/mental health, youth offender, developmental disabilities or child development options) may transfer to MMU to complete their B.A. in human service.