Volunteer Services Skills Certificate
Division: Social Sciences
PROGRAM CODE: 2C37714
The Volunteer Services Skills Certificate offers students core courses in behavioral science, combined with at least one behavioral science course that offers service learning. The academic courses provide a fundamental understanding of human behavior. A course that includes service learning requires volunteering in the community combined with written reflection on the volunteer experience. This certificate emphasizes working directly with people in need within the service-learning tradition, and it integrates academics with practice. This certificate can enrich the service of experienced volunteers, guide those interested in volunteering for the first time and transfer students interested in teaching and social service agency work, and provide early experience in public service. This certificate requires a total of 12 units chosen from the categories below as indicated.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses - List A (select one 3-unit course): | 3 | |
| General Psychology | 3 | |
or PSY 101HF | Honors General Psychology | |
| Introduction to Sociology | 3 | |
or SOC 101HF | Honors Introduction to Sociology | |
| Required Courses - List B (select one 3-unit course): | 3 | |
| The Human Services | 3 | |
| Social Problems | 3 | |
| Restricted Electives (select 6 units): | 6 | |
| Child in the Home and Community | 3 | |
| Cross Cultural Psychology | 3 | |
| The Psychology of Adjustment | 3 | |
| Social Psychology | 3 | |
or PSY 251HF | Honors Social Psychology | |
| Sociology of Aging | 3 | |
| Marriage and Family | 3 | |
or SOC 275HF | Honors Marriage and Family | |
| Drugs and Society | 3 | |
| Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 3 | |
| Total Units | 12 | |