The human services program takes an interdisciplinary approach to preparing you for work in the “helping professions,” such as social work, directing nonprofit organizations, and even working overseas for organizations like the Peace Corps. Human services is one of the fastest-growing professions in the country and our curriculum gives you the fundamental attitudes, knowledge, and skills that lead to a career or graduate programs in social work, counseling, rehabilitation, law, or other fields.

The human services curriculum focuses on behavioral sciences. Within the major, students may specialize in Deaf studies, family and children’s services, psychology, counseling psychology, administration and policy, or social justice, identity, and religion. Each of these areas requires courses that focus the general understanding acquired in the major’s core courses. As human services is such a hands-on profession, your studies include a significant amount of fieldwork at agencies in the Boston area. This practice will position you well for work in the field.

Students may pursue casework in social service and welfare agencies, therapeutic treatment in mental health settings, rehabilitation counseling, and parole and outreach work with delinquent youth. They may also do administrative work like community organizing, program development, and program evaluation and grant writing. Services like these are all very much in demand all over the country, making your degree both extremely valuable and very flexible.