This program prepares students for entry-level positions in a wide variety of community and social service related settings. Students learn the roles and functions of the human service profession, characteristics of human growth and development, personal, social, and environmental factors affecting individual development, characteristics of human service agencies, theories and skills of human services, and how ethical issues, legal issues, and multicultural issues affect the work of the human service profession. Graduates are prepared to assist clients in coping successfully with developmental tasks of normal growth and in solving problems caused by personal, social, and environmental stress.