Bachelor of
Professional Arts
Human Services Major |
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effective September 1, 2003
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The Bachelor of Professional Arts (Human Services) is offered by
Athabasca University's Human
Services, Centre for Work and Community Studies. The program
responds to career and professional needs of career practitioners
in the human services fields of early childhood education, child
and youth care, rehabilitation services, and other closely related
fields such as teacher assistants and counsellors. The program complements
the diploma programs offered at community colleges in Alberta and
across Canada.
Students are strongly encouraged to plan an individualized program
of
study to
• consolidate and formalize their
previous learning
• build on their existing knowledge
• broaden their knowledge base
• explore areas of interest, and
• prepare themselves for future education
and career choices.
Students are advised to plan their program of study carefully to
ensure that they meet all of the degree requirements. A maximum
of 12 credits may be completed at the 200 level including any 200-level
courses in the required common core. You must also complete a minimum
of 18 credits at the
400 level. If you need assistance in planning
your program contact the program advisor.
A maximum of 60 credits may be awarded towards the admission requirements
for this program through portfolio assessment by the Prior Learning
Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) office. A maximum of 30 PLAR credits
may be awarded towards the remaining credits in the program.
For general
information regarding the Human Services major, contact the
program advisor.
Students
must complete the following degree requirements:
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Degree Requirements |
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Total credits in the program |
120 |
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College diploma transfer (enrolment requirement) |
60 |
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Minimum Credits Required beyond the
College Diploma |
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Core courses |
12 |
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Major and elective courses |
48 |
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Total |
60 |
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Within the Degree Students are Required
to Earn for Degree Completion |
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Senior (300 or 400) level |
48 |
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400 level |
18 |
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Through AU (residency) |
30 |
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Maximum Credits Allowed |
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At the junior (200) level |
12 |
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Human Services Major Requirements |
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Common
core |
12 |
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Major courses |
36 |
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Elective courses |
12 |
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Max. Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) credits
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30 |
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Required Major
Courses (36 credits) Student must complete 6 required courses and 6 additional courses,
2 chosen from each of the following 3 themes: Leadership, Public
Policy Contexts, and A Changing Environment.
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Required Courses
(6 credits) |
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| HSRV 311 |
Practice
and Policy in the Human Services |
(3) |
| HSRV 322 |
Policies
in the Human Services |
(3) |
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Elective Major Courses
(select 12 credits from the following) |
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| HADM 315 |
Health
and Community Development
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| HADM 369 |
Health
Policy |
(3) |
| HSRV 433 |
Directed
Reading I: Topics in the Human Services |
(3) |
| HSRV 455 |
Project
Design I |
(3) |
| HSRV 477 |
Project
Implementation I |
(3) |
| LBST 200 |
Introduction
to Labour Studies |
(3) |
| ORGB 327 |
Leadership
in Organizations |
(3) |
| PSYC 388 |
Introduction
to Counselling |
(3) |
| PSYC 389 |
An
Introduction to Learning Disabilities |
(3) |
| PSYC 405 |
Creating
a Working Alliance |
(3) |
| SOCI 300 |
Organizations
and Society: Making Sense of Modern Organizational Life |
(3) |
| WMST 266 |
Thinking
From Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies |
(3) |
| WMST 321 |
Advocacy
from the Margins |
(3) |
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Additional 18 Credits.
Select 2 courses from
each theme. The 6 theme-related courses create a strong multidisciplinary knowledge
base in the areas of leadership, policy contexts and the rapidly
changing world in which high-quality human service delivery occurs.
The major courses offer a mix of traditional management and public
administration along with innovative approaches that provide other
possibilities for responding to rapid social change. Students may
select courses that will broaden and deepen their understanding
or specialize, for example, by choosing aboriginal content or women's
studies courses. With permission of the program coordinator other
courses may be substituted under the theme headings to complement
students individualized program of study. Eighteen credits must be completed at the 400 level. Students
are advised to plan their program of study carefully to ensure that
they meet all of the degree requirements.
Theme One: Leadership (select 2)
These courses emphasize communications, management, finance and
social change.
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| ACCT 250 |
Accounting
for Managers
or
any 200-level accounting course |
(3) |
| CMNS 321 |
Computers
and Human Experience |
(3) |
| CMNS 385 |
Media
Construction of Social Movements and Issues |
(3) |
| COMM 243 |
Interpersonal
Communications in Management |
(3) |
| COMM 377 |
Communication
and Problem Solving in Groups |
(3) |
| ECON 321 |
Economics
of Health Care |
(3) |
| GOVN 450 |
Public Budgeting and Financial Management (in development) |
(3) |
| HLST 320 |
Teaching
and Learning for Health Professionals |
(3) |
| HRMT/ORGB 386 |
Introduction
to Human Resource Management |
(3) |
| INST 357 |
Contemporary
Aboriginal Issues in Canada |
(3) |
| LBST 332 |
Women
and Unions |
(3) |
| ORGB 326 |
Organization
Theory |
(3) |
| ORGB 364 |
Organizational
Behaviour |
(3) |
| ORGB 390 |
Managing
Change |
(3) |
| PSYC 470 |
Consultation
and Collaboration for Students with Special Needs |
(3) |
| PSYC 471 |
Managing
Behaviour Problems in the Classroom |
(3) |
| SOCI 300 |
Organizations
and Society: Making Sense of Modern Organizational Life |
(3) |
| WMST 302 |
Communication
Skills: Feminist Practice |
(3) |
| WMST 422 |
Women,
Violence, and Social Change |
(3) |
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Theme 2: Public
Policy Contexts (select 2) These courses emphasize government, law, society and healthy communities.
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| CRJS 426 |
Aboriginal
Government and Law |
(3) |
| GOVN 390 |
Public
Policy and Administrative Governance |
(3) |
| HADM 315 |
Health
and Community Development |
(3) |
| HADM 326 |
Health
Issues: Health and Healing |
(3) |
| HADM 336 |
Community
Health Planning |
(3) |
| HADM 369 |
Health
Policy in Canada |
(3) |
| LBST 413 |
What
do Unions Do? |
(3) |
| LGST 310 |
The
Impact of the Canadian Charter on Labour Relations |
(3) |
| LGST 331 |
Administrative
Law |
(3) |
| LGST 430 |
Canadian
Legal System |
(3) |
| POLI 309 |
Canadian
Government and Politics |
(3) |
| POLI 311 |
Aboriginal
Politics and Governments |
(3) |
| POLI 330 |
International
and Global Politics |
(3) |
| POLI 350 |
Women
in Canadian Politics |
(3) |
| POLI 383 |
Introduction
to Canadian Political Economy |
(3) |
| SOCI 329 |
Aging
and You (I): An Introduction to Gerontology |
(3) |
| WMST 400 |
Feminism
in the Western Tradition |
(3) |
| WMST 401 |
Contemporary
Feminist Theory |
(3) |
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Theme 3: A Changing
Environment (select 2 or PSYC 343)
These courses emphasize holistic approaches to communities, roots
and sources, and methodology and research.
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| CMNS 420 |
Children
and Media |
(3) |
| CRJS 352 |
Victims
of Crime |
(3) |
| EDUC 301 |
Educational
Issues and Social Change I: Historical Social Perspectives |
(3) |
| HADM 369 |
Health
Policy in Canada |
(3) |
| INST 342 |
Issues in Native Education |
(3) |
| INST 358 |
Aboriginal
Women in Canadian Contemporary Society |
(3) |
| INST 369 |
History
of Canada's First Nations from 1830 |
(3) |
| INST 370 |
The
Métis |
(3) |
| LBST 331 |
Women,
Workers, and Farmers: Histories of North American Popular Resistance |
(3) |
| POEC 393 |
Canada
and the Global Economy |
(3) |
| PSYC 343 |
Issues
and Strategies in Counselling Women |
(6) |
| PSYC 389 |
An
Introduction to Learning Disabilities |
(3) |
| PSYC 400 |
Teaching
and Managing the Child with Learning Difficulties |
(6) |
| SOCI 380 |
Canadian
Ethnic Studies |
(3) |
| SOCI 435 |
Theories
of Social Change |
(3) |
| SOCI 450 |
Social
Theory and the Environment |
(3) |
| SOSC 366 |
Research
Methods in the Social Sciences |
(3) |
| WMST 303 |
Issues
in Women's Health |
(3) |
| WMST 444 |
Feminist
Research Methodology |
(3) |
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Options (12
credits) Select 12 additional credits in any
discipline at the senior (300
or 400) level. Students should select electives with a view to fulfilling
the general degree requirement especially the requirement of completing
6, 3-credit courses at the 400 level. Students may select additional
courses from those recommended for the Human
Services major.
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