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3.00 Credits
Focuses on differential communication skills, including communicating with clients, families, and caregivers. Also covered are discussions of health literacy and ways to improve the health literacy of clients and caregivers and communications research including verbal, non-verbal, and written communications and application of findings for excellence in communications skills. This course will provide the necessary intervention knowledge, theory, and skills to effectively communicate with older adults in facilitating maximum autonomy and functioning. The course will meet the needs of students who are training to be human services professionals such as caregivers, services brokers, advocates, and teachers.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to helping families cope with decision making in old age, including advance directives (health care surrogates, proxies, power of attorney for health care), health care decision making, hospice care, and other issues (i.e. living alone, driving, finances). This course will introduce the lifespan development and the final stages of Death and Dying. Students will compare and contract historical and modern attitudes toward death and dying found in literature, rituals, religion, philosophy, film, medical-legal issues, and in the process clarify their attitudes and values.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with the opportunity to participate in Service Learning during each of their 4 semesters of upper division Human Services Delivery and Administration degree work; and to increasingly integrate the experience of personal research and personal and societal values surrounding important issues and problems in Human Services Delivery and Administration. It moves from an introduction to the concept of Service Learning (SL) and the philosophy and principals that serve as its foundation to an opportunity to utilize advanced Human Services Delivery and Administration skills. Student will be expected to choose their SVLN service sites to coincide with their academic coursework and career goals. Students are expected to complete at least 40 hours of Service Learning during each semester at a single designated agency for that semester.
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Provides students with the opportunity to participate in Service Learning during each of their 4 semesters of upper division Human Services Delivery and Administration degree work; and to increasingly integrate the experience of personal research and personal and societal values surrounding important issues and problems in Human Services Delivery and Administration. It moves from an introduction to the concept of Service Learning (SL) and the philosophy and principals that serve as its foundation to an opportunity to utilize advanced Human Services Delivery and Administration skills. Student will be expected to choose their SVLN service sites to coincide with their academic coursework and career goals. Students are expected to complete at least 40 hours of Service Learning during each semester at a single designated agency for that semester.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with the opportunity to engage in active learning through service while enrolled in course work toward the BA Human Services: Interpreting degree. Students will have the opportunity to integrate the service learning experience with personal reflection, personal research and with personal and societal values surrounding important issues and problems in the areas of Deafness, Interpreting and Human Services Delivery and Administration. Students will be introduced to the concept of Service Learning (SL) and the philosophy and principals that serve as its foundation; and will ultimately have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate cultural and linguistic competence, as well as advanced skills in Human Services Delivery. Service sites will include Deaf and interpreter related agencies, organizations, schools and individuals. Students are expected to complete at least 50 hours of Service Learning during each 3 credit hour course.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with the opportunity to engage in active learning through service while enrolled in course work toward the BA Human Services: Interpreting degree. Students will have the opportunity to integrate the service learning experience with personal reflection, personal research and with personal and societal values surrounding important issues and problems in the areas of Deafness, Interpreting and Human Services Delivery and Administration. Students will be introduced to the concept of Service Learning and the philosophy and principals that serve as its foundation; and will ultimately have the opportunity to develop and demonstrate cultural and linguistic competence, as well as advanced skills in Human Services Delivery.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of human services organizations in relation to other systems, with an emphasis on organizational theory, influencing systems and outcomes, and the roles of human services professionals in organizations. This course is designed to present the student an advanced level view of the public and private sectors when it comes to the administration of human services. We will examine the importance of corporate culture and philosophy on organizational theory. We will examine the importance of culture, the significance of various limits put on policy in several directions, i.e. environmentally, economically and socially. Also examined are the importance of public law and legal processes and the complexity of intergovernmental and intersectoral relations. This course provides to the human services graduate an in depth view of the administrative structures in both the public and private sectors. It looks at the three branches of government within our system: the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial and their various roles in the administrative process. We will look at the effect the legal system has on the administration of public services. Finally, we will examine how public policy is developed and implemented in service systems and the financing and budgeting components involved.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to provide an in depth understanding of data analysis and applications in social scientific research. In this context, the course will expose you to the theoretical and mathematical foundations of the technique. The primary focus will be on the use of SPSS for analysis. it will also provide information on useful extensions of techniques that help the researchers deal with issues of non-linearity and simultaneity in cross-sectional data.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an applied course in program planning, evaluation, and funding. The purpose of this course is to give students the necessary knowledge and skills to appropriately assess client needs, develop and implement suitable interventions, and obtain assessment data on the effectiveness of the interventions that can be used to improve the intervention’s effectiveness. This is an active learning course.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on information management skills, which include obtaining, organizing, analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating information. The course introduces students to the organization and mechanics of technical and professional communications, both visual and verbal. Emphasis is placed on gathering and evaluating information; planning, organizing, and writing; designing visual aids; editing, and using multi-modal forms of communication.
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