2020-2021 Credit Catalog

Community Health Worker Certificate (CHW)

2020-2021 Human Services Pathway

Certificate, Health and Human Services Division

Recommended Course Selection Sequence

CMP101Composition 1

3

HUS101The Human Services Worker

3

SOC106Introduction to Sociology

3

HUS109Introduction to Community Health Worker

4

PSY102Introduction to Psychology

3

HUS102Helping Skills in Human Services

3

HUS130Life Changes and Crisis: Adaptation and Intervention

3

HUS137Field Placement & Seminar 1 for Human Services Practitioner

3

HUS105Introduction to Public Health

3

Total Credit Hours: 28

Program Notes

  • Open admissions
  • Stackable credential
  • CORI/SORI check required
  • Day or evening program

Campus Information

  • Lynn or Danvers campus

Additional Graduation Requirements

  • Mathematics proficiency to graduate
  • Cumulative CLGPA at or above 2.0
  • Submit your intent to graduate form at: www.northshore.edu/registrar

Advising Notes

This certificate is designed upon completion to prepare students for entry level employment in human services.

For students interested in continuing their education in human services pathway, courses in this certificate count towards Human Services Practitioner Degree.

Courses are listed in the recommended order you should take them.

Many courses have prerequisite requirements that must be fulfilled to be eligible to enroll in the course.

All student degree audits for graduation purposes will be based off the official program of study the student is enrolled in.