Major Requirements

Credits Required: 

Total credits: 120

Credits at CSUMB: 70

Credits in the major: 70

You may declare CHHS as your major at any time during your undergraduate studies at CSUMB. However, we recommend that you declare as early as possible so that you can begin lower-division prerequisite and recommended courses. You officially begin the major by enrolling in CHHS 300: Major ProSeminar, where you work with the instructor to create or revise your Individual Learning Plan (ILP). The ILP maps out how you will achieve each of the Major Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options. All CHHS majors will choose one of the following concentrations: 1) Social Work Concentration, 2) Community Health Concentration, or 3) the Public Administration Emphasis. Students interested in pursuing more than one concentration or emphasis should meet with a CHHS faculty advisor to develop an ILP.  You conclude the major by completing your CHHS field-based Capstone, a publicly presented project that displays your cumulative learning in the major.

Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes are identified below. In order to graduate, students must also meet all general education and university requirements. 

MLO 1 Collaboration (C)

Demonstrate the ability to work in teams in interprofessional settings across traditional lines of programs, agencies, disciplines and diverse communities to establish common missions and purposes, and to collaborate with others in decision making, learning, completing tasks and applying knowledge of group process and group interaction.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 330: Collab Community Leadership (4 units)

MLO 2 Conflict Resolution, Negotiation and Mediation (CR/N)

Demonstrate the ability to understand the dynamics of human negotiation among conflicting interest groups and how to achieve mutual agreement.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 340: Conflict Res/Collab Negotia (4 units)

MLO 3 Cross-Cultural Competency (CCC)

Demonstrate the ability to be comfortable with differences between self and others, to engage in a process characterized by mutual respect and sensitivity, to assess the needs and capabilities of culturally diverse populations and to communicate effectively across cultural groups to deliver appropriate health and human services.

Required Courses

MLO 4 Financial Management (FM)

Demonstrate the ability to understand the budgeting process and the financial management of public agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following two core courses:
  • CHHS 435: Intro Nonprofit/Public Admin (4 units)
  • CHHS 445: Principles of Grantsmanship (2 units)
  • Public Administration Emphasis
  • In addition to the core courses listed above, students in the Public Administration emphasis must also complete the following course:
  • CHHS 412: Public Budgeting & Finance (4 units)

MLO 5 Information Management (IM)

Demonstrate the ability to apply computer and Internet technology to health and human services practice and public policy development.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core courses:
  • CHHS 300: Major ProSeminar (4 units)
  • CHHS 385L: Research Methods Lab (1 unit)
  • CHHS 435: Intro Nonprofit/Public Admin (4 units)

MLO 6 Knowledge of Health and Human Services (KHHS)

Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles and issues common to the major fields of health and human services including community health, social welfare and public policy; and demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities pertinent to the health and/or human service concentration area(s) selected.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core courses:
  • SW 310: Introduction to Social Work (4 units)
  • PH 320: Intro to Community Health (4 units)
  • CHHS 396S: Jr Field Pract Seminar SL (3 units)
  • CHHS 496A: Sr Field Pract Seminar-A (3 units)
  • CHHS 496B: Sr Field Pract Seminar-B (3 units)
  • Social Work Concentration
  • In addition to the core courses listed above, students in the Social Work concentration also complete:
  • SW 405: Social Work Practice (4 units)
  • Community Health Concentration
  • In addition to the core courses listed above, students in the Community Health concentration also complete:
  • PH 407: Multicultural Health Educatn (4 units)

MLO 7 Leadership (L)

Demonstrate an understanding of and begin to master the skills to motivate others by promoting a shared vision and setting clear direction for collaborative implementation of sustained change in interprofessional settings and diverse communities.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 330: Collab Community Leadership (4 units)
  • Public Administration Emphasis
  • In addition to the core course listed above, students in the Public Administration emphasis must also complete the following course:
  • CHHS 422: Program Planning (2 units)

MLO 8 Professional Communication (PC)

Demonstrate the ability to initiate and maintain a flow of information between senders and receivers through the use of critical listening, and oral and written communication skills; communicate basic and complex ideas to a variety of groups; appreciate the organizational and cultural contexts within which communication occurs; and conduct professional quality oral and electronic presentations.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core courses:
  • CHHS 302: Professional Communication (4 units)
  • CHHS 400A: Senior Capstone-A (4 units)
  • CHHS 400B: Senior Capstone-B (4 units)

MLO 9 Professional Development (PD)

Demonstrate the ability to apply the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for growth and development as an entry-level professional by producing evidence of increasing self-awareness and self-correcting behavior.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core courses:
  • CHHS 396S: Jr Field Pract Seminar SL (3 units)
  • CHHS 496A: Sr Field Pract Seminar-A (3 units)
  • CHHS 496B: Sr Field Pract Seminar-B (3 units)

MLO 10 Professional Ethics (PE)

Demonstrate the ability to articulate the values and ethics which are the foundation for health and human services practice, to recognize areas of conflict between the professional values and the student's own and to clarify conflicting values in the delivery of health and human services.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 350: Ethics for Health & Human Serv (3 units)

MLO 11 Public Policy Analysis (PPA)

Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze public policy issues and begin to master the skills necessary to identify and define public problems, analyze existing policies, develop alternatives to current policy and recommend alternatives.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 450: Intro to Policy Analysis (4 units)

MLO 12 Statistics and Research Methods (S/RM)

Demonstrate knowledge and application of basic research methodologies and statistical analysis in applied and community-based health, human services and public policy research.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following courses:
  • CHHS 385: Applied Stats/Resrch Methods (3 units)
  • CHHS 385L: Research Methods Lab (1 unit)

MLO 13 Systems Management (SM)

Demonstrate an understanding of and begin to develop the skills necessary to manage complex systems of health and human service delivery.

Required Courses

  • All CHHS majors must complete the following core course:
  • CHHS 435: Intro Nonprofit/Public Admin (4 units)
  • Public Administration Emphasis
  • In addition to the core course listed above, students in the Public Administration emphasis must also complete the following course:
  • CHHS 432: Program Evaluation (2 units)

Concentrations

Community Health

Required Courses

  • Complete both of the following:
  • PH 407: Multicultural Health Educatn (4 units)
  • PH 417: Global Women's Health Issues (4 units)
  • And choose one of the following electives:
  • PH 447: Food Policy, Culture & Hlth (4 units)
  • OR
  • PH 450: Health Systems & Policy (4 units)

Social Work

Required Courses

  • Complete both of the following:
  • SW 405: Social Work Practice (4 units)
  • HDEV 351: Lifespan Dev: Transit & Chng (4 units)
  • And choose one of the following electives:
  • SW 415: Social Work with Child/Youth (4 units)
  • OR
  • SW 425: Social Welfare Policy (4 units)

Emphasis

An emphasis is an informal collection of coursework; emphasis titles do not appear on student transcripts.

Public Administration Emphasis

The Public Administration emphasis is an informal collection of coursework that orients students to basic fundamental principles and practices of public and nonprofit administration, focusing on the essential elements of program planning, design and evaluation, public budgeting, community economic development and applications of technology in the public and nonprofit sectors. (Concentrations appear on student transcripts, however emphases do not.)

Required Courses

  • Complete all of the following:
  • CHHS 412: Public Budgeting & Finance (4 units)
  • CHHS 422: Program Planning (2 units)
  • CHHS 432: Program Evaluation (2 units)
  • And choose one of the following electives:
  • BUS 330: Human Resources Management (4 units)
  • BUS 433: Mgmt of Nonprofit Organization (4 units)
  • CHHS 442: Community Econ Devel Policy (4 units)
  • CHHS 452: Tech in Public/Nonprofit (4 units)