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SWHS: Advocacy Certificate Counseling Total Units: 34.5
Term Effective: Summer 2025

Description:

The Social Work and Human Services Advocacy Certificate of Achievement program is an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the skills needed in human rights advocacy. In today's complex society, social service agencies are required to provide for the economic and emotional needs of those in difficulty. These agencies have a need for responsible individuals with some college background to provide various services. The Social Work and Human Services Advocacy certificate program prepares students to work in a community setting at an entry level.

For students interested in a Degree, a Social Work and Human Services: Advocacy major is available.

Employment options include working with non-profit agencies as well as local, state and federal agencies. Examples of these agencies are job training programs, residential settings and private social service agencies.

Program Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this program, the student will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the social work and human services field and its operational function in relation to client services; and
  2. Examine and perform various social work and human service roles within the profession incorporating counseling skills, ethical principles and sensitivity to diversity;
  3. Demonstrate ability to use research tools to locate and evaluate information that can be applied to the social work and human services field; and
  4. Demonstrate an understanding of theoretical principles in the behavioral sciences to help address the needs of social work and human services clients.

Program Requirements:

The requirements for the SWHS: Advocacy Certificate program are:

  • Complete 34.5 units from
    • Social Work and Human Services: Advocacy Core Requirements
    • Advocacy Emphasis Requirements

Social Work and Human Services: Advocacy Core Requirements - complete 25.50 units
COUN 7Identity and Cultural Diversity3.00
SWHS 80Introduction to Addiction Studies3.00
SWHS 90Introduction to Social Work and Human Services3.00
SWHS 91Skills and Techniques in Social Work and Human Services3.00
SWHS 93Introduction to Case Management3.00
SWHS 87Ethical Issues in Social Work and Human Services3.00
SWHS 88Internship Practicum1.50
SWHS 99ISocial Work and Human Services Internship Work Experience3.00
Complete any combination totaling at least 3.00 units from the following:
CourseDescriptionUnits
SWHS 92Introduction to Group Counseling3.00
SWHS 96Co-Occurring Disorders3.00
 
Advocacy Emphasis Requirements - complete 9.00 units
SWHS 95Advocating for Social Change3.00
Complete any combination totaling at least 6.00 units from the following:
CourseDescriptionUnits
AJ 25Community Relations3.00
AJ 53Juvenile Procedures3.00
AJ 56Crime and Criminal Justice in Society3.00
AJ 71Criminal Justice Interviewing & Counseling3.00
ASL 1Elementary American Sign Language - Part 14.00
CHLD 10Child Growth and Development3.00
CHLD 53AIntroduction to Children with Special Needs3.00
CHLD 90.1Child, Family, Community Interrelationships3.00
COUN 20Sex and Gender3.00
HLC 160Medical Terminology3.00
PHIL 7Contemporary Moral Issues3.00
PSYC 1AGeneral Psychology3.00
PSYC 3Human Sexuality3.00
PSYC 4Child and Adolescent Psychology3.00
PSYC 5Abnormal Psychology3.00
PSYC 7Theories of Personality3.00
PSYC 30Social Psychology3.00
PSYC 40Introduction to Psychology of Gender3.00
PSYC 56Aging, Dying and Death3.00
RELS 2World Religions3.00
SOC 2Modern Social Problems3.00
SOC 30Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality3.00
SWHS 81Prevention and Education on Addiction3.00
SWHS 82Pharmacological & Physiological Effects of Addiction3.00
SWHS 83Family Systems in Addiction Studies3.00
SWHS 92Introduction to Group Counseling3.00
SWHS 96Co-Occurring Disorders3.00

Term Effective: Summer 2025

The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.

Previous Versions:

Social Work and Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2024
Social Work and Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2023
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2021
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2020
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2019
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2017
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2012
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Spring 2011
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Spring 2010
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2009
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 2008
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Spring 2008
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Spring 2007
Human Services: Advocacy - effective Fall 1981

Course Prerequisites and Advisories:

Courses in a program of study may have prerequisites or advisories; that is, courses that must or should be completed before taking that course. Please check for prerequisites or advisories by clicking on the course numbers in the Program Requirements section.

It is important that students who are completing an Associate Degree and desire to transfer to a four-year institution meet with a counselor to plan their lower division coursework. While many majors at SRJC are intended to align with lower division major preparation required by California public universities, specific lower-division major requirements vary among individual campuses. See a counselor, visit the Transfer Center, and check Guides For Transfer in Specific Majors, and ASSIST to review transfer preparation guides for specific schools and majors.

Notes:

It is strongly recommended that students complete SWHS 88 and SWHS 99I in the final semester of taking the core requirements. SWHS 92 and SWHS 96 can only count once.

Contact
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