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3.00 Credits
Daily news reports discuss threats of rising sea levels, climate change, and resource scarcity. Human existence and human health is directly dependent on how humans interact as stewards with their environments. This course will provide students with a broad understanding of the environmental issues facing societies and how societal attitudes toward the environment shape human existence.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with autism spectrum disorders. Students will focus on diagnostic criteria, history of the disorders, treatment, evidence-based practice, and policy. A focus on current evidence based treatments and pseudoscientific trends in autism treatment will make students informed consumers of research. In addition, the course will focus on applied behavior analysis (ABA) as an intervention and review techniques for teaching new skills and reducing problem behaviors in individuals with autism.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore human trafficking both as a domestic and global social problem, and how the economic, technological, cultural, and global conditions have shaped this market and allowed the trafficking of human beings to flourish. Using a sociological perspective, students will examine human trafficking of women and children into the sex industry and domestic work, and the trafficking of men into forced labor. This course will also examine government roles, laws, culture, organized crime, and discuss efforts being made to combat the human trafficking problem.
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3.00 Credits
The course follows the development of the sociology of deviance from 19th century functionalism to contemporary perspectives of class and politics. A varied theoretical background with emphasis on real-world approaches to social deviance is examined.
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3.00 Credits
The Senior Seminar in Behavioral Science will focus on developing professional skills, exploring career options, and understanding how programs are evaluated. These skills include elements of professionalism such as interviewing skills, writing a resume, learning how to advocate, presentation skills, and understanding evaluation research. Students will use applied techniques such as writing a resume and practice interviewing skills by conducting an agency interview. Students will also explore evaluation studies, graduate programs, advocate for a social issue, and develop a career path trajectory.
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3.00 Credits
Recognizing the varying forms of child abuse and understanding the typical profiles of child abusers, this course provides an introduction to identifying typical profiles of child abuse, the reporting requirements, and investigation processes.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the second course into child advocacy. The focus of the course is on the responses of professionals to allegations of child maltreatment. The purpose of this course is to expand the student's knowledge and skills in identifying, investigating and prosecuting child maltreatment. Students majoring in criminal justice, education, behavioral science, nursing, and other areas where knowledge of child maltreatment investigation and advocacy are necessary will receive competency based skills training such as forensic interviewing, documentation, etc.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the third course in the child advocacy studies series. This course will help prepare students to recognize the effects of child maltreatment and identify intervention strategies for children and their families. Multidisciplinary approaches to prevention, advocacy and treatment of survivors of child maltreatment will be presented and discussed. This course is designed for students majoring in behavioral science, psychology, criminal justice, nursing, education or legal studies or other areas where knowledge of child maltreatment and advocating for children will be necessary
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the sociological perspective of at-risk youth in society and its core question, to what extent does society shape youth behavior? Juvenile delinquency will be explored focusing on individual theories such as choice and trait theory, bio-social theories, and psychological theories; sociological perspectives/social structure perspectives of delinquency such as social disorganization, anomie/strain theory, critical theory, and cultural deviance theory; social process theories such as family relations, school, and peers; and developmental perspectives such as life course, latent trait, and trajectory theories. Also explored will be gender differences in delinquency.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a general overview of human services work. The course will introduce students to the field of social work as a profession, and orient students to the fundamental values, skills, ethics, and knowledge of social work practice. The student will be introduced to various human service organizations, client groups, various problems agencies address, as well as an examination of direct services and administration/ planning of services.
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