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Lincoln University has enhanced learning opportunities for potential students by adding the FLEX (Furthering the Lincoln EXperience) Bachelor of Human Services (BHS) program, which offers an accelerated degree for adult learners who work in the human services field.
This program prepares students for professional work in the human services and/or continued work at the graduate level in Lincoln University’s Master of Human Services Program. The program’s adult-centered approach maintains high academic standards, while offering a personal academic plan-of-study for each student.
Students completing this program will be able to:
- Apply effective human service skills, as well as the values and ethics necessary for working with individuals, groups, and communities to bring about social change;
- Apply theory to professional practice by engaging in service intervention modalities in a human services setting;
- Apply theories of management, research planning and evaluation as relevant tools in the field of human services;
- Apply knowledge of specific skills and techniques in their requisite agencies which are necessary to serve client populations; and
- Apply knowledge and techniques of cultural competence in the human services setting.
Prospective students must be employed in the field of human services with at least five years of work experience in the field. Credits earned from previous academic studies, life-learning experiences, and professional experience will allow the student to apply for advanced standing toward the undergraduate degree. Students who transfer more than 60 approved credit hours from another institution must meet the residency requirement of at least two semesters (30 credit hours) inclusive of a summer session.
The courses are offered at Lincoln University’s Graduate Center located at 3020 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. Classes meet on Sunday and on occasion some evenings during the week. Students attend classes every other week, while working online on the weeks that they are not in class. Students work in class and with a professional staff person to prepare for assessment for prior learning.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.