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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course reviews the history of human services with particular emphasis on the field of maternal and child services, and health. Various models of service delivery will be investigated. The roles, functions, and duties of human service professionals and maternal and child specialists will be explored. The development of a professional identity and the ethics of practice will be discussed. Personal qualities essential for being an effective helping professional will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course addresses cultural diversity and its implications for effective counseling and human service practice. It considers the psychological impact of factors such as sex, race, ethnicity and culture, religious preference, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and physical disability. It explores common stereotypes and out-group prejudices and how to overcome them in counseling. Finally, it reviews counseling and teaching issues and strategies for diverse families and clients.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course presents family theories most often used by human service workers as the framework for working with families. Three of these theories - the ecological model of human development, family systems theory and empowerment theory will be used to help students understand the complexity of family development and adaptation, and the impact of stress on the family system. The student will learn how these theories can be used in the development of familyprofessional collaboration and application of familycentered practice.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course addresses three important issues of early childhood: health, development and parenting. Common health problems of infancy and early childhood are discussed along with important health promotion and disease prevention strategies for creating safe and nurturing environments. Students will learn about characteristics and importance of parent-child interactions as well as other cultural and social influences on parenting skills.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course reviews central issues that affect the family, particularly mother and child, before conception through the end of the first month after birth. The student will learn information to enhance their ability to support a woman as she gets ready for pregnancy, undergoes many changes in her body and the way she feels while pregnant, while in labor, and following delivery. The student will learn what a woman should not do when pregnant, how to enable the pregnant woman to take of herself to have a healthy baby, warning signs of problems, and care and feeding of the new baby. Students will practice skills for assessing a mother's emotional adjustment to the birth of her infant, the interactions and bonding behaviors with her child, and the infant's physical adaptations and social responsiveness.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This interdisciplinary course is an exploration of the mathematical and scientific applications within the visual and performing arts. Sample topics include wave properties as applied to music, sound and holography; symmetry; fractals; and chaos.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course deals with the multifaceted aspects of human relations from a managerial standpoint. Emphasis is on communications, motivation, leadership, personal problems at work, and employee management in relation to the economy. While primarily business oriented, the principles are applicable to all phases of life.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course is designed to introduce the student to some of the major developments in world politics, with special reference to the place of the U.S. in the world community.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours per week. This course is designed to explore the frontiers of science. Students examine current scientific research and developments in both the physical and biological sciences. In this course students will have an opportunity to work with many of the science faculty which will provide an optimum environment for scientific inquiry and understanding.
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1.00 Credits
1 hour per week. Prerequisite or corequisite: Admission to the Community of Scholars Program, students with a 3.3 or higher GPA, or permission of Instructor. An examination of contemporary social issues making use of a variety of experiences that include guest speakers and visiting experts.
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