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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the student to a wide spectrum of issues that concern gender today and examines the historical roots of those issues. The course focuses on areas such as body image, health issues, motherhood, women's role in the workplace, the Women's Movement, women's political and legal status, gender role socialization, women's portrayal in the media and others. Prerequisite: None. Core Social Science or Diversity Elective
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the human services profession. The student will be introduced to the components of the human services profession. The nature of the helping process will be explored. The historical development and the legislative influences on the contemporary human service system in the United States will be examined. Human service agencies and organizations will be described. The range and types of populations served by welfare services will be discussed. The range of skills utilized in the human service professions - interventions with families and individuals, advocacy, interviewing, evaluation, analysis of need, counseling, case management, community organizing, etc. will be described. Professional values, skills and ethics will be discussed as well. Prerequisite: None.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the human needs and resources made available to assist families and individuals in need. The course describes the function of social work services in residential treatments, psychiatric services, correctional services, medical services, services for the aged, and community services. Prerequisite: HSC 101 or permission of Program Director
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the theories, principles, and skills of the helping process in social work practice. Students learn how to engage a client, how to do assessments, develop a treatment plan, choose appropriate interventions and follow up with both individuals and families. Students also develop skills in listening, doing intake interviews and evaluations, making referrals, and writing reports. Case studies and field observations will be used to explore typical presenting problems and appropriate responses. Prerequisites: HSC 101, HSC 102, or permission of Program Director.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students to respond effectively in critical situations and to help counsel clients who are experiencing crisis events in their lives. Students will learn that crisis interventions are founded on theory and will be able to apply theory and crisis intervention techniques. Special attention will be paid to counseling approaches for use with circumstantial and developmental life crises in both school and community settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the historical development of the American nation up to 1865, with a survey of major political, social, economic, and cultural trends. Attention is focused on exploration and discovery; life in the American colonies; the revolution; confederation and Constitution; the National period, sectionalism and the Civil War; and economic, social, and cultural change. This course is offered in alternate years. Core Humanities Elective
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3.00 Credits
This second course continues the analysis of the historical development of the United States after 1865. Subjects covered include the South and the reconstruction period; the populist and progressive movements; United States in world affairs; World Wars I and II; and economic, social, and cultural changes and problems of modern America. This course is offered in alternate years. Core Humanities Elective
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates 20th Century United States. It includes material on political, social, economic, artistic, and cultural events and movements. Foreign policy and events form an integral part of the course. Core Humanities Elective
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the legal and social status of women and African-Americans from 1787 to the present. Topics include the institutionalization of slavery, the spread of slavery, abolitionism, sectionalism, legal and social inequality of women to the 1960's, Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws, the suffragist movement, the effects of World War II, modern feminism, and the successes and failures of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Core Diversity Elective
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