Social Sciences & Human Services Focus Area

Career Motivator: Helping Others

  • Values helping, nurturing, caring for others
  • Uses human relations competencies
  • Prefers social context, seek personal meaning
  • Apt to be agreeable, cooperative, friendly, warm, patient, tactful, responsible

Careers by Focus Area

While far from comprehensive, the career pathways below can serve as a reference point to start brainstorming common career outcomes in Integrated Studies. To learn more about what you can do with your major, schedule an appointment with a Career Coach. For all other questions, talk to an Integrated Studies Advisor.

  • Social Worker
  • Anthropologist
  • Psychologist
  • Youth Counselor
  • Behavior Interventionist
  • Academic Advisor
  • Nurse
  • K-12 Teacher
  • Childcare Worker
  • Chaplain

Applicable Course Subjects

ANTH, BIOL, CHEM, CMST, COMD, ELED, FCSE, GEOG, GEOL, HDFS, HEP, HIST, IGS, ITLS, KIN, NDFS, PSY, PUBH, SOC, SPED, SW, TEAL

Popular Courses in Social Sciences & Human Services

Prefix Course Credits
ANTH 3200 Perspectives on Race (DSS) 3
BIOL 3010 Evolution (DSC) 3
COMD 3010 American Sign Language I (CI) 4
CMST 3330 Intercultural Communication (DSS) 3
CMST 3400 Persuasion (CI) 3
ENGL 3400 Writing for the Workplace (CI) 3
ENGL 4400 Professional Editing (CI) 3
FCSE 3080 Dress and Humanity (DHA) 3
HIST 3010 Intro to Buddhism 3
HIST 4560 Women in Islam 3
HDFS 3350 Family Finance (DS) 3
HDFS 4250 Addictions and the Family 3
HEP 3000 Drugs and Human Behavior 3
HEP 3400 Stress Management 3
ITLS 3130 How People Learn 3
KIN 3100 Athletic Injuries 3
PSY 3700 Mental Health Awareness & Advocacy 3
SW 4925 Resilience and Human Flourishing 3
SOC 3010 Social Inequality 3
SOC 4420 Law and Society 3
SPED 4300 What is Normal? Intro to Disabilities Studies 3

Courses by Applicable Subjects

Courses listed below may not be offered every semester. This is not a complete list of courses students can take in this focus area. Meet with an Integrated Studies Advisor to select the best courses for your academic and career goals. For course descriptions, more details on prerequisites, or a course overview, see the USU General Catalog or the USU Syllabus Tracker.

Anthropology (ANTH)

Prefix Course Credits
ANTH 3110 North American Indian Cultures (DSS) 3
ANTH 3120 African Healing Systems 3
ANTH 3130 People of Latin America (CI) 3
ANTH 3140 Sex and Gender (DSS) 3
ANTH 3150 Applied Anthropology Survey: History, Uses, Methods, and Careers 3
ANTH 3160 Anthropology of Religion (DSS) 3
ANTH 3200 Perspectives on Race (CI/DSS) 3
ANTH 3225 Sex, Evolution, and Health (DSC) 3
ANTH 3240 Anthropology of Disease (DSC) 3
ANTH 3300 Archaeology in North America (DSS) 3
ANTH 3310 Intro to Museum Studies (CI) 3
ANTH 3320 Archaeology of Climate Change 3
ANTH 3340 Geographic Information Science for Anthropology (QI) 3
ANTH 3350 Archaeology of Ancient Civilizations (DSS) 3
ANTH 3360 Utah Archaeology (DSS) 3
ANTH 3370 Archaeology of Prehistoric Europe (DSS) 3
ANTH 3550 Culture of East Asia (DHA) 3
ANTH 4100 Study of Language 3
ANTH 4120 Anthropology of Childhood (DSS/CI) 3
ANTH 4130 Intro to Medical Anthropology (DSS) 3
ANTH 4140 Anthropology of Global Health (CI) 3
ANTH 4160 Evolution of Religion 3
ANTH 4170 Ethnographic Methods in Anthropology 3
ANTH 4200 The Anthropology of War 3
ANTH 4210 Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation 3
ANTH 4240 Primates of the World 3
ANTH 4250 Behavioral Ecology 3
ANTH 4800 Environment & Health in Antiquity 3
ANTH 4990 Contemporary Issues in Anthropology (CI) 3
ANTH 5250 Problems in Bioarchaeology (QI) 3
ANTH 5320 Zooarchaeology 3
ANTH 5650 Developing Societies (DSS) 3
ANTH 5700 Folk Narrative 3

Biology (BIOL)

Prefix Course Credits
BIOL 3010 Evolution (DSC) 3
BIOL 3020 Evolutionary Biology 3
BIOL 3030 Genetics and Society (DSC) 3
BIOL 3050 Organismal Biology with Physiology 3
BIOL 3060 Principles of Genetics 3
BIOL 3070 Computational Approaches to Biology (CI) 3
BIOL 3090 Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology 3
BIOL 3100 Bioethics (CI) 3
BIOL 3300 General Microbiology 4
BIOL 3500 Plagues, Pests, and People 3
BIOL 4000 Human Dissection 1
BIOL 4030 Communicable Disease Control 3
BIOL 4040 Fundamentals of Epidemiology 3
BIOL 4060 Exploring Animal Behavior 3
BIOL 4430 Intro to Plant Pathology 4
BIOL 4450 Neurobiology 3
BIOL 4500 Applied Entomology 3
BIOL 4540 Invertebrate Zoology 3
BIOL 4600 Advanced Human Physiology 5
BIOL 4750 Plant Physiology 3
BIOL 5110 Intro to Microscopy 1
BIOL 5160 Methods in Biotechnology: Cell Culture 3
BIOL 5210 Cell Biology 3
BIOL 5240 Virology 3
BIOL 5530 Insect Systematics and Evolution 3
BIOL 5550 Freshwater Invertebrates 3
BIOL 5560 Ornithology 3
BIOL 5570 Herpetology 3
BIOL 5580 Mamalology 3
BIOL 5640 Endocrinology 3

Chemistry (CHEM)

Prefix Course Credits
CHEM 3000 Quantitative Analysis 3
CHEM 3060 Physical Chemistry I 3
CHEM 3070 Physical Chemistry II 3
CHEM 3510 Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry 3
CHEM 3650 Environmental Chemistry (DSC) 2
CHEM 3700 Introductory Biochemistry 3
CHEM 4800 Research Problems 1-3
CHEM 4890 Biochemistry Seminar 2
CHEM 5070 Biophysical Chemistry 3
CHEM 5100 Computational Chemistry 3
CHEM 5520 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry 3
CHEM 5700 General Biochemistry 3

Communication Studies (CMST)

Prefix Course Credits
CMST 3020 Advanced Public Speaking 3
CMST 3050 Technical and Professional Communication (DSS) 3
CMST 3120 Communication in Family Contexts 3
CMST 3160 Gender Research in Communication Studies 3
CMST 3250 Organizational Communication (CI) 3
CMST 3270 Culture and Public Discourse 3
CMST 3280 Organizations and Social Change 3
CMST 3330 Intercultural Communication (DSS) 3
CMST 3400 Persuasion (CI) 3
CMST 3510 Development and Philanthropy 3
CMST 3600 Communication and Conflict 3
CMST 3730 Globalization and Discourse 3
CMST 4200 Language, Thought, and Action (DSS) 3
CMST 4270 Communication, Culture, and Power 3
CMST 4330 Advanced Perspectives in Global Communication 3
CMST 4430 Negotiation in the Global World 3
CMST 4700 Health Communication (CI) 3
CMST 4750 Health Communication Campaigns 3
CMST 4800 Qualitative Research in Communication Studies 3
CMST 4810 Quantitative Communication Studies Research Methods (QI) 3
CMST 4820 Communication Criticism (CI) 3
CMST 5000 Studies in Communication Studies 1-5
CMST 5110 Advanced Interpersonal Communication 3
CMST 5250 Communication, Social Justice, and the Environment 3
CMST 5280 Communication Education Theory 3
CMST 5300 Visual Rhetoric 3
CMST 5370 Methods in Teaching Speech Communication 3
CMST 5400 Advanced Persuasion 3
CMST 5500 Communication and Leadership 3
CMST 5600 Advanced Communication and Conflict 3

Communicative Disorders & Deaf Education (COMD)

Prefix Course Credits
COMD 3010 American Sign Language I (CI) 4
CMST 3100 Speech Science 3
COMD 3120 Management of Speech Sound Disorders 3
COMD 3200 Child Language Development 3
COMD 3500 Phonetics and Phonological Development 3
COMD 3600 Language Science (CI) 3
COMD 3910 American Sign Language II 4
COMD 4760 Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing 3
COMD 4780 Socio-Cultural Aspects of Deafness 3
COMD 4910 American Sign Language III (CI) 4
COMD 4920 American Sign Language IV 4
COMD 5210 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Communicative Disorders 3
COMD 5250 Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults in Speech Language Pathology 3
COMD 5600 Classroom Teaching Using American Sign Language 3
COMD 5610 Introduction to Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 3
COMD 5620 Teaching School Subjects to Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing 3
COMD 5630 Literacy Methods in Early Childhood Deaf Education 3
COMD 5740 Teaching Reading to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children  
COMD 5880 Methods and Procedures in Early Intervention 3
COMD 5910 Translation Analysis: ASL and English 3
COMD 5920 Ethics and Critical Thinking for Interpreters 3
COMD 5930 Historical & Current Perspectives of Interpreting 3

Elementary Education (ELED)

Prefix Course Credits
ELED 3800 Arts Bridge 2
ELED 4410 Gifted Education in the Regular Classroom 3
ELED 4420 Multiple Talent Approach to Thinking 2

English (ENGL)

Prefix Course Credits
ENGL 3030 Perspectives in Literature 3
ENGL 3040 Perspectives in Writing and Rhetoric 3
ENGL 3070 Folklore on the Internet 3
ENGL 3080 Intro to Technical Communication (CI) 3
ENGL 3210 Classical Mythology 3
ENGL 3305 Medieval Literary History 3
ENGL 3315 Early Modern British Literary History 3
ENGL 3345 Literary History of the British Isles 3
ENGL 3355 Literary History of the Early Americas 3
ENGL 3365 Nineteenth-Century American Literary History 3
ENGL 3375 Literary History of the Americas Since 1900 3
ENGL 3385 Postcolonial World Literature 3
ENGL 3400 Writing for the Workplace (CI) 3
ENGL 3410 Digital Writing Technologies 3
ENGL 3420 Fiction Writing 3
ENGL 3430 Poetry Writing  3
ENGL 3440 Creative Nonfiction Writing 3
ENGL 3450 Workplace Research 3
ENGL 3510 Teaching Young Adult Literature 3
ENGL 3620 Native American Studies 3
ENGL 3630 The Farm in Literature and Culture (CI/DHA) 3
ENGL 3710 Children's Folklore 3
ENGL 3830 The History of Yoga 3
ENGL 4210 History of English: Change and Diversity 3
ENGL 4230 Language and Culture 3
ENGL 4300 Shakespeare 3
ENGL 4400 Professional Editing (CI) 3
ENGL 4500 Teaching Writing 3
ENGL 4510 Teaching Literature 3
ENGL 4520 Teaching Literacy in Diverse Classrooms 3
ENGL 4540 Teaching Creative Writing 3
ENGL 4700 Folk Material Culture 3
ENGL 5320 Gender and Sexuality in Literature (CI) 3
ENGL 5330 Race and Ethnicity in Literature (CI) 3
ENGL 5340 Multimedia Literature (CI) 3
ENGL 5400 Technology and Activism 3

Family and Consumer Science Education (FCSE)

Prefix Course Credits
FCSE 3080 Dress and Humanity (DHA) 3
FCSE 3200 Adult Responsibilities Methods 3
FCSE 4040 Advanced Apparel Studies 3
FCSE 4900 Independent Study in FCSE 1-5

Geography (GEOG)

Prefix Course Credits
GEOG 3100 Human-Environment Geography 3
GEOG 3430 Political Geography 3
GEOG 3800 Data Visualization 3
GEOG 4120 Environment and Development in Latin America (CI) 3
GEOG 4210 Geography of Utah 3
GEOG 4220 International Regional Geography 3
GEOG 4400 Natural Hazards and Society 3
GEOG 4850 Cartographic Design 3
GEOG 4860 Python Programming for GIS 3
GEOG 4870 Geospatial Analysis 3
GEOG 4920 GIS Internship 1-3

Geology (GEO)

Prefix Course Credits
GEO 3100 Natural Disasters 3
GEO 3150 Energy in the Twenty-First Century 3
GEO 3250 Natural History of Dinosaurs 3
GEO 3300 Geology of the World's Oceans 3
GEO 3400 Communicating Geoscience (CI) 3
GEO 3440 Sedimentation and Stratigraphy 3
GEO 3600 Geomorphology 3
GEO 3800 Geoscience Workforce Techniques 3
GEO 4500 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology 3
GEO 4870 Geospatial Analysis 3
GEO 5150 Fluvial Geomorphology 3
GEO 5410 Advanced Stratigraphy 3
GEO 5510 Groundwater Geology 3
GEO 5660 Applied Geophysics 3

Human Development & Family Sciences (HDFS)

Prefix Course Credits
HDFS 3100 Abuse and Neglect in the Family Context 3
HDFS 3110 Human Sexuality 3
HDFS 3350 Family Finance (DSS) 3
HDFS 3450 Consumer Credit Problems 3
HDFS 3500 Infancy and Childhood 3
HDFS 3540 Adult Development and Aging 3
HDFS 3570 Youth and Adolescence 3
HDFS 3700 Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy 3
HDFS 4220 Family Crises and Interventions 3
HDFS 4230 Family and Social Policy 3
HDFS 4240 Social and Family Gerontology 3
HDFS 4250 Addictions and the Family 3
HDFS 4270 Research in Human Development 3
HDFS 4350 Advanced Family Finance 3
HDFS 4550 Preschool Methods and Curriculum 3
HDFS 4940 Gerontology Integration 1
HDFS 5200 Human Motivation in Physical Activity Contexts 3
HDFS 5340 Housing Finance and Regulations 3
HDFS 5460 Financial Counseling Certification 3
HDFS 5560 Advanced Home Visiting 3

Health Education & Promotion (HEP)

Prefix Course Credits
HEP 3000  Drugs and Human Behavior 3
HEP 3200 Consumer Health 3
HEP 3400 Stress Management 3
HEP 3500 Elementary School Health Education 2
HEP 3600 Intro to Community Health (CI) 3
HEP 3700 Intro to Epidemiology for Health Educators 3
HEP 3800 Healthcare Systems 3
HEP 4000 Heath Services Administration 3
HEP 4100 Foundations of Community Health 3
HEP 4400 Leadership, Policy, and Advocacy in Health 3
HEP 4800 Human Diseases 3
HEP 5250 Global Health & Service Learning 3
HEP 5500 Student Teaching Seminar 2

History (HIST)

Prefix Course Credits
HIST 3005 Sport: A Global History 3
HIST 3010 Intro to Buddhism (DHA) 3
HIST 3020 Intro to Hinduism (DHA) 3
HIST 3030 Intro to Judaism (DHA) 3
HIST 3080 Mormonism and the American Religious Experience (DHA) 3
HIST 3130 Greek History 3
HIST 3150 Roman History (CI) 3
HIST 3160 Classical Drama and Society 3
HIST 3210 Classical Mythology 3
HIST 3220 Medieval European Civilization 3
HIST 3225 Medieval Britain, 500-1500 (DHA) 3
HIST 3230 Early modern Europe (DHA) 3
HIST 3250 Renaissance Europe (CI/DHA) 3
HIST 3330 Modern Russia and the Society Experiment 3
HIST 3410 The Modern Middle East 3
HIST 3456 History of South Asia 3
HIST 3482 Ancient China to 1800 3
HIST 3510 Africa and the World 3
HIST 3560 Modern East Asia 3
HIST 3660 History of Mexico (DHA) 3
HIST 3700 Regional Folklore (CI) 3
HIST 3730 American Revolutionary Era 3
HIST 3850 History of Utah (CI/DHA) 3
HIST 3910 Health, Disease, and Medicine in North America (DHA) 3
HIST 3950 Environmental History (CI/DHA) 3
HIST 4020 Public History 3
HIST 4230 The History of Christianity in the West (CI/DHA) 3
HIST 4251 The Tudors 3
HIST 4510 American Metropolis (DHA) 3
HIST 4540 Gender, Violence, and Non-Violence 3
HIST 4550 Women and Gender in America 3
HIST 4560 Women in Islam (DHA) 3
HIST 4600 The History of the American West (CI/DHA) 3
HIST 4650 Women and Gender in the US West 3
HIST 4660 Work and Migration in North American History (DHA) 3
HIST 4700 Folk Material Culture 3
HIST 4710 American Indian History 3
HIST 4720 The Civil Rights Movement 3
HIST 4730 History of Black America (CI) 3
HIST 4760 America in the 1960s 3
HIST 4890 American Religious History 3
HIST 4810 American Military History 3
HIST 4822 The Vietnam War (DHA) 3
HIST 5700 Folk Narrative 3

Intersectional Gender Studies (IGS)

Prefix Course Credits
IGS 3010 Intro to Intersectional Gender Studies (CI) 3
IGS 5910 Intersectional Feminist Theories 3
IGS 5920 Intersectional Feminist Research Methods 3
IGS 5930 Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Families 3
IGS 5905 Gender, Sexuality and Adolescence 3

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences (ITLS)

Prefix Course Credits
ITLS 3000 HEDI Orientation 1
ITLS 3120 Design Perceptions and Processes 3
ITLS 3130 How People Learn 3
ITLS 3310 Information and Media Literacy 3
ITLS 3350 Intro to Computational Thinking 3
ITLS 3500 Intro to Game Studies 3
ITLS 3530 Gaming, Technology, and Culture 3
ITLS 3560 Character and Level Design 3
ITLS 4110 Project and Product Management 3
ITLS 4160 Measuring Learning and Performance 3
ITLS 4205 Integrated Multimedia Production 3
ITLS 4210 Virtual Environment Development 3
ITLS 4230 Graphic Design and Production 3
ITLS 4240 Graphic Design and Production II 3
ITLS 4245 eLearning Authoring Tools 3
ITLS 4265 Internet Design and Development 3
ITLS 5000 SLM Foundations and Information Management 3
ITLS 5030 Information Access, Literacy, and Technology 3
ITLS 5500 Integration and Innovation of Technology in Education 3

Nutrition & Food Science (NDFS)

Prefix Course Credits
NDFS 3100 Food, Technology, and Health 3
NDFS 4020 Advanced Nutrition 3
NDFS 4440 Fundamentals of Food Engineering (QI) 4
NDFS 4480 Community Nutrition 3
NDFS 4470 Community Nutrition 3
NDFS 5020 Meat Technology and Processing 4
NDFS 5100 Sensory Evaluation of Food (QI) 3
NDFS 5110 Food Microbiology (CI) 3
NDFS 5200 Nutritional Epidemiology 3
NDFS 5320 Advanced Sports Nutrition 3
NDFS 5400 Nutritional Neuroscience 3
NDFS 5510 Food Laws and Regulations 3
NDFS 5500 Food Analysis (QI) 4
NDFS 5560 Food Chemistry 4
NDFS 5830 International Nutrition: Macronutrients 3

Kinesiology (KIN)

Prefix Course Credits
KIN 3000 Principles of Fitness 3
KIN 3010 Yoga Techniques 3
KIN 3011 Intro to Yoga Teacher Training 1
KIN 3020 Yoga Teaching Methodology 3
KIN 3050 Physical Education in Elementary School 3
KIN 3070 Yoga Anatomy 2
KIN 3100 Athletic Injuries 3
KIN 3250 Anatomical Kinesiology 3
KIN 3650 Movement Exploration for Elementary Teachers 2
KIN 4000 Mental Aspects of Sports Performance 3
KIN 4015 Yoga and Nature 3
KIN 4200 Biomechanics (QI) 4
KIN 4500 Motivational Strategies for Physical Education and Coaching 3
KIN 5200 Human Motivation in Physical Activity Contexts 3
KIN 5430 History and Philosophy of Physical Education (CI) 3

Psychology (PSY)

Prefix Course Credits
PSY 3010 Psychological Statistics (QI) 4
PSY 3120 Abuse, Neglect, and Intimate Violence (DSS) 3
PSY 3210 Abnormal Psychology (DSS) 3
PSY 3400 Analysis of Behavior: Advanced (DSS) 3
PSY 3460 Neuroscience I 3
PSY 3500 Research Methods in Psychology (CI/DSS) 3
PSY 3510 Social Psychology (DSS) 3
PSY 3700 Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy 3
PSY 4000 Mental Aspects of Sports Performance 3
PSY 4210 Personality Theory (DSS) 3
PSY 4230 Psychology of Gender (DSS) 3
PSY 4240 Multicultural Psychology (DSS) 3
PSY 4420 Cognitive Psychology (DSS) 3
PSY 5050 Psychological Aspects of Sports Performance 3
PSY 5100 History and Systems of Psychology 3
PSY 5330 Principles of Psychological Measurement and Test Theory 3

Public Health (PUBH)

Prefix Course Credits
PUBH 3120 Family and Community Health 3
PUBH 3310 Occupational Health and Safety 3
PUBH 4030 Communicable Disease Control 3
PUBH 4040 Fundamentals of Epidemiology 3
PUBH 4310 Industrial Hygiene Recognition of Hazards 4
PUBH 4320 Industrial Hygiene Chemical Hazard Evaluation 3
PUBH 4410 Industrial Safety 3
PUBH 5330 Industrial Hygiene Chemical Hazard Control (QI) 3
PUBH 5670 Hazardous Chemicals Handling and Safety 2
PUBH 5790 Accident and Emergency Management 3

Sociology (SOC)

Prefix Course Credits
SOC 3010 Social Inequality (DSS) 3
SOC 3110 Methods of Social Research (CI) 3
SOC 3120 Social Statistics (QI) 3
SOC 3200 Population and Society 3
SOC 3330 Medical Sociology (DSS) 3
SOC 3340 Civil Rights of a Different Color (DSS) 3
SOC 3410 Juvenile Delinquency 3
SOC 3420 Criminology 3
SOC 3430 Social deviance 3
SOC 3500 Social Psychology 3
SOC 3520 Sociology of Mental Illness 3
SOC 3600 Finding Community in Postmodern Society (DSS) 3
SOC 3650 Sociology of Education 3
SOC 3750 Sociology of Aging 3
SOC 4010 Sociological Theory (DSS) 3
SOC 4420 Law and Society (CI) 3
SOC 4620 Sociology of the Environment and Natural Resources (DSS) 3
SOC 5460 Sociology of Health 3

Special Education (SPED)

Prefix Course Credits
SPED 3100 Introduction to Blindness and Visual Impairment 3
SPED 3101 The Human Eye and Visual System 3
SPED 4000 Education of Students with Disabilities 3
SPED 4106 Intro to Deaf-blindness 3
SPED 4300 What is Normal? Intro to Disability Studies 3
SPED 5110 Social and Psychological Implications of Visual Impairments 2
SPED 5130 Literary Braille Codes and Technologies 4

Social Work (SW)

Prefix Course Credits
SW 3350 Child Welfare 3
SW 3360 Adolescents: Theories, Problems, and Issues 3
SW 3550 Social Gerontology 3
SW 3650 Mental Health 3
SW 3750 Community Health and Social Work 3
SW 4540 Nonprofit Management for Social Workers 3
SW 4580 Grief and Loss in Social Work Practice 3
SW 4925 Resilience and Human Flourishing 3
SW 5901 Dimensions of Human Behavior 3
SW 5903 Social Policy and Social Change 3

Teaching Education and Leadership (TEAL)

Prefix Course Credits
TEAL 4610 Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment for the Middle Grades 3
TEAL 4745 Second Language/Literacy Acquisition & Development 3
TEAL 5420 Learning, Development, and Individual Differences in Gifted Education 3
TEAL 5440 Creative in Education 2
TEAL 5730 Educational Linguistics for Teachers 3