SOC R119 - Introduction to Social Work and Human Services

    Recent Professors
    Dolores Ortiz
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
    Class Size
    45–50 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2026 Sections
    View Fall 2026 sections of SOC R119
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D0
    Description
    This course includes a survey of helping institutions and social issues concerning human services and social welfare; identifying target populations, the historical perspective of human services and social welfare in the U.S., theoretical perspectives of human services and social welfare, survey of social service occupations and careers, and economics of the helping professions. Special attention is given to current service delivery systems, their policies and procedures, and the tasks of culturally responsive social workers and human service workers within those settings.