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| CORE COURSES HS 301: Human Service Professionals and Personal Systems (4 credits) Introduction to the helping role, with emphasis on motives, values, ethics and professional practice. Self-awareness and personal communication are fostered. HS 303: Human Service Professinals and Interpersonal Systems (4 credits) The dynamics of interpersonal systems in relation to other human service systems. Emphasis on developing interpersonal communication skills and effective helping strategies. HS 305: Human Service Professionals and Small Group Systems (4 credits) The dynamics of small group systems in relation to other human service systems. Emphasis on participation in and facilitation of task-oriented or decision-making groups and leadership theory. HS 402: Human Service Professional.s and Organizational Systems (4 credits) The dynamics of human service organizations in relation to other human service systems. Emphasis on knowledge of factors that influence organizational behavior, the skills useful in influencing organizational outcomes and the characteristics of effective human service professionals in human service organizations. HS 404: Human Service Professionals and Community Systems (4 credits) The dynamics of community systems and the relationship of these systems to other human service systems. Emphasis on factors that influence community systems, skills of influencing community structure and process, and the characteristic of effective human service professionals in community settings. HS 406: Human Service Professionals and Societal and Global Systems (4 credits) The dynamics of societal and global systems and their effects on the other subsystems of human services. Emphasis on the factors influencing societal and global outcomes, and the characteristics of effective human service professionals in societal and global settings. INTERNSHIP COURSES HS 320a-c Internship Seminar - First Year (1-2 credits each) Readings and discussion on the application of human service concepts, with emphasis on individuals and groups. HS 390b-c Professional Internship - First Year (4 credits each) Field experience for first-year students in human services. Staff and agency supervision. S/U grade HS 420a-c Internship Seminar - Second Year (1 credit each) Readings and discussion on the appliatoin of human services concepts with emphasis on agencies and organizations. HS 490a-c Professional Internship - Second Year (4 credits each) Field experience for second-year students in human services. Staff and agency supervision. REQUIRED COURSES HS 302: Introduction to Human Services (3 credits) A conceptual foundation of human services, with an emphasis on history, current theoretical models, and ethical considerations for professionals. HS 325: Interviewing for Human Service (3 credits) The theory and practice of interviewing in a variety of settings, e.g. agencies, education, health care, and business. Emphasis on skill development and intake interviewing. HS 383: Human Services and Management (3 credits) An introduction of the field of management in public and nonprofit agencies and organizations. HS 477: Seminar in Cultural Awareness (4 credits) Readings and discussion of contemporary cross-cultural issues; culturally different groups and their interaction with human services systems; comparative ethnic issues, conflicts and institutional practices. HS 482: Applied Research Methods (4 credits - writing intensive course) Study of theory and techniques involved in examining the effectiveness of human services agencies, including the application of techniques that lead to direct social action and agency intervention. ELECTIVES PSYCH 310: Psychology and Culture ( 5 credits) Cultural and ecological factors and their effect on perception, thinking, language, intelligence, sexuality and other psychological variables. An examination of the "universality" of traditional Euro-American psychological theories. PSYCH 314: Abnormal Psychology (5 credits) Human behavior patterns culturally labeled as abnormalities, or as mental illness; their etiology, incidence, treatment and social attitudes toward patterns. Historical review of the concepts used to explain such behavior and of the research relating to the treatment of psychoses and neuroses. PSYCH 315: Social Psychology (5 credits) Socialization (moral development, racial, ethnic and class differences), attitudes and attitude change, conformity, interpersonal attraction. Theories and methods of social psychology stressing applicability of social psychological research and knowledge to contemporary social problems. PSYCH 321: Learning (5 credits) A survey of the major principles of learning, memory and cognition. PSYCH 352: Child Development and Education (4 credits) Basic principles of development, with special attention to the preschool and elementary school age child. PSYCH 353: Adolescent Psychology ( 4 credits) Basic principles of development with special attention to the secondary school age child; implications for educational practices. |
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