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Text on screen: Program Spotlight: Human Services (MA)

Text on screen: Melissa Spriggs, PhD, LCPC, Assistant Professor & Director MA Human Services Program

Melissa Spriggs:The human services field is a wide field with a variety of areas and options to pursue. Webster provides an equally wide experience for our students to build upon knowledge and skills so they can apply it in the area they choose.

Text on screen: Kevin C. Student

Kevin C.: Human Services is a part of my blood. I work for the Department of Veteran Affairs, and I am an addiction therapist, so my degree really helped me to implement some of those theories and things that I've been working with, but not necessarily learned about.

Text on screen: IMPLEMENTING THEORY INTO PRACTICE

Spriggs: They know they want to help people and they've done that professionally and personally — maybe for many years — and now they're thinking about how to do that in a more advanced way.

Text on screen: Interdisciplinary Curriculum: A Personalized Degree for Career Advancement

It's truly interdisciplinary. It draws from fields such as sociology, psychology, counseling, human growth and development, management and leadership to pull kind of the best of all of those areas and field and create this interdisciplinary degree.

Text on screen: PSYCHOLOGY, COUNSELING, HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP

I would say an area of distinction for our program is our unique opportunity to choose a variety of elective courses, to either tailor make kind of an area of expertise or sample some areas that perhaps they haven't been exposed to.

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Kevin: I was able to choose the electives that I wanted. They talked about ethics, they talked about values. They talked about many of the things that are embedded in my job.

Spriggs: All the courses are available asynchronously online ...

Text on screen: ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE

... with the exception of our field experience courses. For that, we use the benefit of live virtual along with asynchronous discussions.

Text on screen: LIVE VIRTUAL

[Footage of Dr. Spriggs teaching a course to students online with video chat]

So it's kind of the best of both worlds with that field experience course, and that's an opportunity to apply theory to the real world.

Text on screen: Expert Faculty: Fostering an Engaging Learning Environment

This program, I would say, set students up for success because of our awesome faculty, number one, who are really engaged with students and care about them, want them to succeed, want them to gain that knowledge and apply it in a way that's meaningful to them.

Kevin: Every instructor, all of the students that I've met, have been very open, warm, welcoming, conversational.

[Footage of Dr. Spriggs teaching a course to students online with video chat]

This program helped me to learn that if I do what I need to do to make myself successful, then the rest will take care of itself.

Spriggs: You'll thrive and flourish once you graduate from here and look back on your time at Webster and be proud that you graduated from Webster.

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Text on screen: webster.edu

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