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3.00 Credits
This course explores the interaction between social movements and social change. The focus is on intentional change; on social movements as expressions of people's interest in transforming social structures and cultural relations. Activism organized around issues of race, class, and gender-as found in the American labor movement, civil rights movement, and the women's movement-constitute the three primary movementsexamined in this course. Prerequisite: SOC 105.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to basic grammar and vocabulary through a variety of speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities. Recommended for students with little or no previous Spanish instruction.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to more advanced grammar and vocabulary through a variety of speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities. Recommended for students with two or more years of high school Spanish.
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1.50 Credits
The World Geography module is an introductory survey that examines the relationship between the physical features of the earth and the various human societies that reside on it. The module introduces the study of geography, the problems geographers encounter, and the methods and tools used to try to solve these problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the development of U.S. social policy aimed at addressing the needs of vulnerable populations and the ways in which the social work profession has contributed to and been shaped by that development. The social forces, values, and conceptions of social problems are examined, and elementary models of policy analysis are presented. The fields of social work practice that have evolved as a result of social policy choices will also be explored. Finally, students will be introduced to the basic methods utilized by social workers as they work with and advocate for vulnerable populations.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the first part of a two-semester sequence on human behavior and the social environment. It introduces students to the major models that explain human development. Concepts are selected from the psychosocial, systems, ecological, family life cycle, and psychoanalytic perspectives. In addition, these theories are used to understand the life stages of infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Biological, psychological, and social/environmental factors that influence and shape individual and family stability and change are considered, as they inform the social worker in assessing the situation and assisting clients with decision making and problem solving. At each life stage, both normal development and ways in which development becomes skewed are presented. Issues of vulnerability particularly appropriate for each life stage are also considered, with attention to ethnic, racial, and gender issues. Attention is also given to special populations, such as oppressed groups, women, and the homosexual population. Prerequisites: SW 107 and PSY 105.
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3.00 Credits
This is the second course of a two-semester sequence on human behavior and the social environment. The course is designed to present students with a multiple perspective of human development that focuses on adulthood (early, middle, late, and very late adulthood) and issues of death and dying. Biological, psychological, and social/environmental factors that influence and shape individual and family stability and change are considered, as they inform the social worker in assessing the situation and assisting clients with decision making and problem solving. At each adult life stage, both normal development and ways in which development becomes skewed are presented. Issues of vulnerability particularly appropriate for each adult life stage are also considered, with attention to ethnic, racial, and gender issues. Attention is also given to special populations, such as oppressed groups, women, and the gay/lesbian population. Prerequisites: SW 107, 206, and PSY 105.
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3.00 Credits
An orientation for mature students to the academic demands of college. Areview of study techniques, critical reading, outlining, organizing ideas, note-taking and test-taking techniques, expository writing, library use, research methods, and writing of a fully documented research paper are included. Effectiveness in oral communication is stressed through participation in classroom discussions and oral presentations. Tuition free, but student pays $100 fee. Prerequisite: Entering adult student.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the world of the adult student in undergraduate higher education through readings, research, and essays. Translating experiential learning to the academic world is emphasized with students, starting the process of creating an academic and professional portfolio. The course is open to all University College students and may be used as a free elective.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the culminating academic experience for students in the professional studies major. Students integrate the significant learning achieved from courses, programs, and life/work experiences and make plans for their future. This seminar helps adult learners cope with their particular ending-beginning situations, identify their strengths to reinforce a positive sense of self, obtain support as they move into the next transition, and develop strategies to deal with change. During the seminar, students review the challenges that adults face in developing new life and work roles, such as developmental issues faced by "aging" students,including life-span concepts, age discrimination in the workplace, or the loss of structure that "going to school" givesadult learners. Students conduct a reappraisal of their goals and are encouraged to consider how the different parts of life fit together (intellectual, social, emotional, physical, vocational, spiritual). Prerequisite: Senior status (completion of at least 90 semester hours of credit toward the degree) and UCS 101.
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