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This course will focus on understanding ethical boundaries and consideration in helping relationships. As human services professionals, practitioners need to respect the dignity and welfare of all people, honor cultural diversity, and promote social justice while acting with integrity and staying within professional ethical boundaries.
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21st century globalization will explore the diversity of the world's developed and developing nations. During this course, students will review the gap that exists between nations with a special emphasis on cultural aspects of communications, values, social welfare, gender status, and the influence of social and public policies, trade, and technology. In addition, students will also examine the role of conflict and migration, and, the challenges they pose, in the global context.
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Culture shapes communication. Understanding how the cultural context influences and affects communication across different cultures can help bridge international, and intercultural, misunderstandings. Learning self-awareness, and identifying individual ethnocentric perspectives will foster the ability to communicate our own ideas to those of another culture. This course will orient students to high context and low context cultures, sources of power distance, collectivistic and individualistic cultures, high and low context cultures, and review cultural dimensions related to workplace settings as well as those more relevant to interpersonal interactions.
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The Helping Profession is a broad term for a profession that can take individuals on many different career paths. Regardless of the path, you might choose, most have selected this field because they want to help people. The word help is also very broad, but in this class, we will hone in on how to define what help actually means and how we can create and build specific skills to be successful in work with others, regardless if that work is with individuals, groups, families, or organizations.
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Human services professionals work with people from all backgrounds, ages, ethnic and socio-economic groups, experiencing a wide variety of problems. They need to be grounded in understanding human development and human behavior, and know how the social environment influences both. As a foundation course working in the human services, this course will explore major theories of human development, compare physiological, neurological, psychological, emotional, spiritual, and social stages of human development and how they influence human behavior, apply micro, mezzo, and macro theories to explain, assess, and plan interventions with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities, and analyze cultural influences in human systems.
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Students will evaluate and analyze the role of ethical financial leadership in Human Services organizations, including the effects on the organization and its stakeholders when ethical lapses in financial matters occur. Students will examine and reflect on classic and contemporary leadership theories, societal and personal values and ethics, multiculturalism in leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, and leadership through conflict and change. Students will evaluate what it means to lead Human Services organizations ethically and compassionately while managing competing financial priorities in pursuit of the organization's mission, vision, and values. Students will apply their learning to real-world contexts, preparing them to meet the challenges for which they will be responsible as ethical financial leaders in local, national, and global Human Services settings.
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Plagues, epidemics, and disease outbreaks have been a constant in human society for thousands of years. The 2020 Corona Virus pandemic reminds us of the complex relationships between disease, environment, and social institutions. This course will explore how epidemics, pandemics and outbreaks have shaped social responses to disease, affected human relationships, and shaped institutions and governance.
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According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, trafficking in persons is a growing global enterprise. Within the domestic United States, human trafficking has been recognized by the U.S. State Department as both a criminal and social problem. This course will focus on learning to recognize and develop an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding human trafficking, and how the human services field can respond to both the problem of human trafficking and the victims of trafficking. Students will examine the general definitions of human trafficking, list the indicators that point to possible trafficking, review human trafficking cases, describe the victim identification process, analyze available resources for victims, and develop a case plan to help victims achieve autonomy.
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This course will focus on developing an in-depth understanding of the issues surrounding the investigation of human trafficking. Students will review best practices in investigating different types of trafficking cases, new helpful investigation tools, trafficking victim identification, interview protocols and policies and laws that govern victim interviews, factors to consider to secure victim testimony and cooperation, hurdles to expect when interviewing trafficking victims, victim trauma and memory, and factors to consider when establishing a Task Force.
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This course is an introduction to the Spanish language with emphasis on developing listening and speaking skills commonly used in conversation. Students will develop vocabulary and communication skills by practicing speaking skills individually and conversationally as well as reading simple texts to assist in speaking skills. Students will be assessed through individual speaking and reading as well as conversational activities.
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