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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
The practicum is an introductory, hands-on experience in an applied area, with guidance from a faculty member or other professional. The practicum should be connected to the mission and objectives of the department. The student outcomes and requirements will be generated with and assessed by a faculty member. A student can enroll in a maximum of 4 credits with no more than 2 credits per semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history and current development of systems designed to serve those in need. Agencies oriented to meet the needs of special populations (e.g., the aged, children and youth, rural and urban groups) will be explored and the policies influencing their development will be critically analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare the student for practice in human services agencies through the development of culturally sensitive helping relationships. Emphasis is placed on enhancing communication skills, developing interview techniques, and learning basic group skills and group interactive patterns.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of HSS 305 and is designed to further advance the student's practice skills. Emphasis is placed on identifying client strengths, problem solving, preparing case plans for individuals and families, and community and organizational interventions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is offered in conjunction with the internship experience and is designed to support the student's field experience with structured educational perspectives. The focus is to assist the student in integrating Christian viewpoints and human services theories with actual field practice.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced human service course builds on micro level counseling and helping, as well as generalist practice knowledge and skills, in addressing the human service needs of at-risk groups (e.g. impoverished, mental health, drug and alcohol, children and families involved in child protective services, domestic violence, community violence, adult and juvenile justice, and AIDS HIV). The course examines special populations in the context of human needs, crisis intervention, and other community systems and interventions. Special attention will be given to church based and Christian strategies used to care for at risk groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course encourages students to develop familiarity with the literature in their major field of study with an emphasis on information literacy. Students will identify, access, retrieve, and summarize respected information in the field. In addition to identifying themes in the literature, students will compare, contrast and evaluate the major perspectives that emerge from their investigation.
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3.00 Credits
Data analysis and evaluation techniques are presented. Specific information covered in the course includes entering data in a data base, frequencies, measures of central tendency and dispersion, analyzing correlation and variance, and working with tests of significance.
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6.00 Credits
This course affords the student an opportunity to apply knowledge and theories obtained in course work to actual field experience. The student will be supervised in the agency placement by both an on-site coordinator and the Geneva placement advisor. A total of 270 hours will be spent on site during the 17-week term.
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3.00 Credits
A seminar or directed study on an announced topic or set of topics. Credit specified at registration. Repeatable for credit with a new topic.
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