Human Services and Couselling
Preparing you for a professional career in the social and community services industry, Human Services at USQ focuses on protecting human rights, promoting social justice and improving people’s quality of life.
Our enviable record in graduate employment will make you highly competitive in securing permanent positions as community development workers, child safety officers, counsellors, project officers, welfare workers, and support workers in both government and non-government areas. You can choose to specialise in areas such as Child and Family, Counselling, Community Development, Human Resource Management and Indigenous Studies.
The Bachelor of Human Services Counselling major is one of a select number of programs fully accredited by the Psychotherapy & Counselling Association of Australia (PACFA).
For those wanting to become community development workers, our Diploma of Welfare and Community Development, is ideal. This diploma opens the gateway to a wide range of professionally challenging and rewarding jobs in the Social and Community Services Industry. Graduates of the program will be skilled advocates and collaborators, equipped with the resourcefulness and sensitivity required to respond to diverse and complex issues and capable of cultivating a firm commitment to equity, sustainability and social justice.
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