Human Services

The Human Services curriculum is designed to provide students with a liberal arts education that focuses on the relationship of human needs to social conditions, emphasizing the identification and analysis of social and individual problems and their solutions through the helping professions. Students study several aspects of human services including social change, diversity, communities, systems, and policy in the private and public domains. Students apply their knowledge through internships in social service and community agencies, educational institutions, human resources, hospitals, mental health facilities, research organizations, advocacy groups, and other human service departments or agencies. Such studies lead to professional development and graduate degrees in the various helping professions such as the fields of social work, education, law, allied health, mental health, social policy and planning and other related helping professions.

Examples of internships include:

Chestnut Children’s Center
Department of Social Services
Department of Mental Retardation
Sigourney Street Shelter
Victims of Crime and Loss
Help for Abused Women and Children
North Berkshire Community Action
Equistrides Therapeutic Riding Association