Human Services
Abigail Jenks
Program Advisor
(413) 775-1127
Office: E132U
jenks@gcc.mass.edu
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Human Services
Take advantage of the smaller classes at Greenfield
Community College while engaging in your preparation for a career
in human services.
Human Services Students say:
"The course work in HSV enabled me to upgrade my potential
in a counseling position I am currently holding."
"The new curriculum is relevant and useful. I'm really excited."
"The courses facilitated my ability to bring together theory and
practice."
"The HSV program definitely was responsible for getting me hired
in my current job."
View course/program requirements in our online catalog:
Human Services Liberal Arts Transfer:
A program designed to provide a broad range of studies in the core curriculum
and human services offerings in order to facilitate transfer to a baccalaureate
degree institution.
The advantages of choosing GCC for pursuing a Human Services education include:
- smaller classes
- close faculty interaction
- lower costs
- ability to attend full-time or part-time
- evening courses
- free tutoring and other academic services
The Human Services programs:
- Familiarize students with the basic qualities, strategies and activities common to the field.
- Help students understand the roles and responsibilities needed to become effective human services workers.
- Familiarize students with contemporary therapies used in the human services field.
- Develop basic interviewing and counseling skills.
- Provide supervised field work.
- Enable students to further studies through transfer to baccalaureate degree-awarding institutions.