Human Services Program and Profession

HN 115 - Seminar Unit 4

Your Degree PlanThis week becomes even more personal as

you personalize your degree plan to fit you as the individual!

This is where you will pick your electives that will build the career you desire. This is your decision. No one will tell you once you have your degree plan put together what classes you have to take for you are making this decision in the Unit 4 project.

How exciting for all of you to be building your own degree with the electives that you decide to take to enhance the Human Service core classes and emphasis areas.

This week when you open the Reading Icon you will find the Associate and Bachelor Degree excel sheet.

If you have the excel sheet opened we will use it to discuss the rest of the work you need to do. If you do not have it open go ahead and open it and come back to seminar. If it is easier for you , print it out. We will wait a few minutes before we proceed.

Now together we will look at the requirements and electives for your Associate or Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Services.

Today we will be looking for the course catalogue and the descriptions of the electives you can take for your degree

So who knows where to find the course catalogue so we can review the electives?

If you do not have a course catalog, you can access one from your student webpage by following these directions:

Go to the Kaplan student webpage. Scroll down to Resources under My Classes. Click Documents. Click University Catalog. Scroll down to Undergraduate Course Descriptions to read descriptions of all the classes offered at Kaplan University.

For the Associate, Bachelor and Advanced Start Bachelor Degree Programs you need to read about all of the core courses and the major courses that you will take as part of your degree.

This will help you to understand what each class is about along with what topic the courses cover.

How many elective credits are required for the Associate Degree and what level of courses?

Associate of Science in Human Services Degree Plan

Associate Degree Requires 35 open elective credits

35 elective credits in 100/200 level courses

You will find the electives you can take for you degree at the bottom of the excel sheet. You will click on the tabs such as business, health sciences, criminal justice, social sciences, and psychology so you can see what courses are available to you for your electives.

** Be sure you have met the prerequisites for any classes

Here is the degree Here is the degree program for the AS program for the AS

degree. All the degree. All the required classes are required classes are

listed.listed.On the tabs below On the tabs below

are suggested are suggested elective courseselective courses

How many elective credits are required for the Bachelor Degree and what level of courses?

Bachelor of Science in Human Services Degree Plan

Bachelor Degree Requires - 59 open elective credits

35 elective credits in 100/200 level coursesAnd

24 elective credits in 300/400 level classes

You will find the electives you can take for you degree at the bottom of the excel sheet. You will click on the tabs such as child development, substance abuse, business, criminal justice and health science so you can see what courses are available to you for your electives.

** Be sure you have met the prerequisites for any classes

**BS Students - IT133 – Software Applications needs to be taken as an

open elective

Good class for AS majors too for computer experience

How many elective credits are required for the Advanced Start Bachelor Degree and what level of courses?

Advanced Start - Bachelor of Science in Human Services Degree Plan

Advanced Start Bachelor Degree Requires 24 open elective credits

24 elective credits in 300/400 level classes

You will find the electives you can take for you degree at the bottom of the excel sheet. You will click on the tabs such as child development, substance abuse, business, criminal justice and health science so you can see what courses are available to you for your electives.

** Be sure you have met the prerequisites for any classes

Please be sure to follow the course levels100/200 level courses300/400 level courses

If a class needs a prerequisite you cannot take it until you have had that prerequisite

Advance Start Bachelor of Science in Human Services Degree

Bachelor of Science in Human Services Degree

Associate Degree in Human Services Degree

Any questions at this point in the seminar?

Part I: Please submit your completed Customized Human Services Degree Plan (Excel spreadsheet), indicating your selection of elective courses needed

to complete your degree.

What do you need to submit on the excel sheet be it for your Associate or Bachelor Degree to me?

Part II: To complete this portion of the project, answer each of the questions about your Customized Degree Plan using the Word template provided in the unit:

Why have you chosen the elective classes included in your degree plan?

What skills and knowledge do you expect to learn from these classes?How will these individual skills and knowledge help you in your

field?How will these electives further your career goals in general?

Answer each question in paragraph form. Your responses should be double-spaced, using 12 pt. Arial font and Standard American English. If you do cite outside references, you will have to provide the source information. In addition, projects should demonstrate careful proofreading.

Will the project be different for someone who is working toward their Associate Degree verses a Bachelor

Degree?

How many documents will be attached in the dropbox for your project this

week?

TWO

1. An Excel document - Your completed and filled out degree plan

2. A Word document – Answers to the questions asked on the template provided in the project directions.

Please be sure to take your time and thought into completing this project.

You will use these to schedule for the rest of your time here at Kaplan. The great thing is you are in control of what courses you put down.

You have the ability to enhance your own learning.

I will be forwarding your degree plans that you create on to the dean of students and she will send them to your advisors.

Great job and have fun planning your

future!