This major helps prepare students for entry-level positions in a variety of human service settings, especially persons with physical, emotional, or mental disabilities. Students enter employment in a variety of settings including rehabilitation centers, sheltered workshops, drug and alcohol programs, senior citizens centers, community mental health and mental retardation programs, corrections systems, and hospitals. Increasing opportunities are available in private for-profit insurance programs for the industrially injured, and in rapidly emerging employee assistance programs within business and industry. Well-planned use of electives and internships allows for specialization. The full-semester (15-credit) internship is provided under the supervision of professionals in human service agencies across the country. These intensive "hands-on" experiences are frequently avenues for employment since the internship is completed during the senior year. Students may not go on internship until they have successfully completed all other course work. Students are encouraged to participate in volunteer activities and courses providing an opportunity for work with people with disabilities; this gives greater meaning to related course work. All students are encouraged to declare a minor in a related area. These choices must be discussed thoroughly with the student's adviser. The program also helps prepare students for graduate study in many human service professional disciplines.