1. Go to the Admissions Applications website.
2. Select First time user account creation.
3. Create a Login ID and PIN for the application process.
4. Complete the application, pay the $30 application fee, and submit.

Request official copies of all transcripts (high school transcripts if you are a first-time freshman student and college/university transcripts if you are a transfer student) be mailed to:

        Office of Admissions
        Western New Mexico University
        P.O. Box 680
        Silver City, NM 88062

Need help with the admissions process? Contact the Office of Admissions at admissions@wnmu.edu or 575-538-6000.

Human Services core requirements (23 credit hours):

1. SWK 1110  Ethics for Social Work and Human Services (3)
2. SWK 2110  Introduction to Human Services and Social Work (3)
3. HMSV 1110 Group Dynamics (3)
4. HMSV 1120 Interviewing Techniques (3)
5. HMSV 2110  Case Management (3)
6. HMSV 2365 Resource & Information Literacy in Human Services (2)
7. HMSV 2370  Human Service Delivery Systems (3)
8. HMSV 2520  Principles of Diversity (3)

General Education Requirements (34 credit hours):

1. Oral Communications (3)
2. Written Communications (6)
3. Mathematics (3)
4. Laboratory Science (4)
5. Social and Behavioral Sciences including SWK 101 (9)
6. Humanities (6)
7. Computer Literacy (3)
8. Elective (3)

Total credit hours for degree = 60

• SOWK 1110  Ethics for Social Work and Human Services.  Introduces students new to social work or human services to ethical standards and practices. The course includes ethics concepts including confidentiality, client rights, duty to warn, communication ethics, and applied ethics. The National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics serves as the foundation of the course. (3)

• SOWK 2110 Introduction to Human Services and Social Work.  This foundation course introduces students to the extensive field of Human Services. Provides an overview of the origins, development and current state of the Human Services profession, the nature and scope of Human Services work, careers in Human Services and the qualities of individuals who become Human Service workers. (3)

• HMSV 1110 Group Dynamics.  This course introduces you to basic issues and stages of development in the group counseling process; overview of types of counseling groups, group theory, leadership ethical guidelines, group formation and termination. (3)

• HMSV 1120 Interviewing Techniques.  This course is designed to teach basic interviewing techniques used in a variety of settings. Theoretical foundations of various interviewing styles and techniques will be examined. The student will develop an awareness of ways in which the interviewer’s background, attitudes, and behaviors influence the interview. (3)

• HMSV 2110  Case Management. This course introduces students to the concept of case management, how it is used in human services, and skills necessary to function effectively as case managers. The emphasis is on the client assessment process, service planning and delivery, and client advocacy. Topics introduced include observation, data collection, documentation, and reporting of client behaviors, identification and referral to appropriate services, monitoring, planning, and evaluation. This course provides student with basic knowledge and beginning case management skills. (3)

• HMSV 2365 Resource & Information Literacy in Human Services. Covers basic concepts and skills of locating information and resources through research, critical thinking, and networking to develop resources for clients and client groups. Students are introduced to characteristics, formats, and organization of information, and learn to locate and select a variety of information that augments the human services helping process. (2)

• HMSV 2370  Human Service Delivery Systems. Provides an overview of human service delivery systems from their origins to modern times, including analysis of social, political and ideological shifts that shape delivery systems. Basic strategies and tactics of human service delivery are emphasized, fostering an understanding and ability to navigate these systems in practice. (3)

• HMSV 2520  Principles of Diversity.  Principles of Diversity is a foundation course that challenges students to begin the process of becoming culturally competent helpers. The course teaches students to develop an awareness of personal cultures, beliefs, customs, and values; knowledge of others’ cultures, beliefs, customs, and values; and teaches culturally appropriate interventions with diverse clients. (3)

• Learn effective, professional, beginning generalist practice to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities in entry level human service positions.
• Learn ethical conduct of the profession and engage in ethical decision making in order to ensure human rights and social and economic justice.
• Learn to engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research to conduct beginning level assessment tasks, provide basic intervention, and evaluate practice efficacy.
• Learn to engage diversity and difference in practice with all populations.
• Learn to integrate technological advancement in their practice.
• Learn self-reflective practice using self-reflection, self-evaluation, and self-correction for effective practice at multiple system levels.