Bachelor of
Professional Arts
Human Services Major |
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Regulations
effective September 1, 2005
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The Bachelor of Professional Arts (Human Services) is offered by
Athabasca University's 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. For more information about the program, please see the
Human Services homepage.
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.
You are advised to plan your program of study carefully to
ensure that you 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, or for general
information regarding the Human Services major, please 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, or a maximum of 30 credits may be awarded towards the remaining credits in the program.
Athabasca University has developed program learning outcomes that describe the career options that may be available to you upon graduating.
Classroom Setting
In addition to completing this degree through online and distance learning, you have the option to take courses for the Bachelor of Professional Arts (Human Services) in a classroom setting at Lethbridge Community College (Lethbridge, Alberta). See Section 9.3 for more information.
To Bachelor of Professional Arts program.
Sixty credits are required for degree completion beyond the approved two-year college diploma. Students
must complete the following degree requirements within the Bachelor of Professional Arts program.
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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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Required Major
Courses (36 credits)
Student must complete six required courses and six additional courses;
two chosen from each of the following three 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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(3) |
HADM 369 |
Health
Policy |
(3) |
HRMT/ORGB 386 |
Introduction to Human Resource Management |
(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 300 |
Organizational Culture |
(3) |
ORGB 327 |
Leadership
in Organizations |
(3) |
ORGB 364 |
Organizational Behaviour |
(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
six credits from
each theme.
The six 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 six credits from the following)
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 |
(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 Two: Public Policy
Contexts (select six credits)
These courses emphasize government, law, society and healthy communities.
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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) |
INST 426 |
Aboriginal
Government and Law |
(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 Three: A Changing
Environment (select six credits)
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 six, three-credit courses
at the 400 level. Students may select additional courses from those
recommended for the Human
Services major.
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