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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Service-Learning is an educational experience in which students participate in organized service activities that meet identified community and/or university needs. Prerequisite: Admission to the Division.
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3.00 Credits
Auditing principles and procedures used in the examination of financial statements and the underlying accounting records to express an opinion as to their fairness and consistency. Prerequisites: Admission to the Division and ACC-312.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced topics in accounting, stressing accounting for consolidations, partnerships, and not-for-profit organizations. Prerequisites: Admission to the Division and ACC-312.
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3.00 Credits
The course is intended to introduce the student to major theories of addiction and compulsive behaviors. Students will consider addictions and case examples from a variety of theoretical perspectives. In addition to the substance addiction, the course will introduce the following topics: eating disorders, sexual compulsivity, and pathological gambling. The course will examine addictions from biological, psychological, social and spiritual domaines. Additionally, individual, family, and cultural perspectives will be explored. The course will emphasize familiarity with the current research in the addictions counseling field. Prerequisite: PSY-150
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to introduce the student to drug administration, absorption, movement, and drug-receptor interactions. Students will learn the psychoactive properties of each class of psychoactive drugs including the respective withdraw abstinence syndromes. Students will become familiar with current research in regard to biochemical abnormalities and their proposed role in behavioral disorders. Students will also become familiar with the etiology and treatment of co-occurring disorders. The course will also provide an overview of clinical practice guidelines for treating psychological and substance use disorders, including the use, strengths and limitations of pharmacologic treatments.
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1.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with an urban, cross-cultural experience as well as exposure to the diversity and universality of human experience and behavior. The experience involves a weekend spent in Chicago touring treatment facilities and cultural sites, completion of pertinent readings prior to the experience, and a final reflection paper. This immersion experience will facilitate a greater understanding of those who are culturally different as well as the complexities associated with racism, poverty, substance dependence, and mental illness. Students will reflect on the impact of this experience in terms of their own personal development, the helping profession, their faith, and sense of life calling. Limited to ADC or PSY majors unless special permission from Division Chair.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to familiarize the student with the twelve core counseling functions necessary in the addictions field. Students will develop their capacity to engage others in a "helping interview" and role-play a variety of counselor functions. They will be exposed to major theories of human behavior and change as well as a sampling of cognitive-behavioral techniques. Students will also examine the qualities associated with effective therapists. A project is required which involves a written bio-psychosocial assessment, summary case conceptualization, treatment recommendations and diagnosis.
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3.00 Credits
The course is intended to introduce the student to the basic issues of group therapy and group therapy with substance abusers. Emphasis will be given to understanding the group process, artful group facilitation, and tailoring interventions to work with clients in the various stages of the change process. Students will become familiar with the 11 therapeutive factors as outlined by Yalom. The course will include an experiential component, with all students participating in an actual group experience. Students will develop an understanding of group process issues, group facilitation skills, and the merits of curriculum-based group treatment.
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3.00 Credits
The course is intended to familiarize the student with a systems view of substance abuse and family life. Students will compare and contrast individual and systemic orientations to assessments, case conceptualization, and intervention. Students will learn the essential characteristics of working systemically as well as the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. This course will address common relational patterns in substance dependent families, systemic approaches to facilitating change, and recovery as a developmental process. Students will examine the various schools of family therapy and the importance of cultural competence.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Addictions Seminar is a seminar for upper-class addictions majors focusing on special topics and current issues in the addictions field. This course is intended to expose students to visiting lecturers or adjunct faculty with clinical expertise in gambling, sexual compulsivity, eating disorders, 12- step recovery, substance abuse prevention, or other areas. Addictions Seminar may be repeated to earn up to four (4) credit hours. This course may be taken by non-ADC majors with the consent of the Addictions Studies Department.
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