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CJWB 330 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester-hour
credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
CJWB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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CJWB 331 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester-hour
credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
CJWB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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CJWB 332 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester-hour
credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
CJWB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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CYDL 330 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Credits: 4
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CYDL 331 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Credits: 4
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CYDL 332 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Credits: 4 s.h.
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HUSB 301 - Integrative CORE Seminar I: Education, Oppression, & Social Intervention
The nature and logic of education comprise the focus of this course. Learners’
personal experiences in addition to historical, sociological and political texts
and works of literature and music are used to explore the themes raised in the
course. Among these themes are: the role of social service and educational institutions
in the ideological development of a society; deeper appreciation of cultural values
and their impact on learners’ development; and an appreciation for how the creative
arts can serve as a vehicle for empowerment.
Credits: 4
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HUSB 302 - Integrative CORE Seminar II: Political Economy & Human Services
This course examines the bedrock of a social system-economics. The American economic
system is looked at from a personal and theoretical level. In addition to understanding
key economic concepts, students look at the role of the global economy from both
an American and international perspective and the impact of the economy on human
service workers and delivery systems, and they envision alternative approaches
to the economy in its relationship to society.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 301
Credits: 4
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HUSB 303 - Integrative CORE Seminar III: Social Movements, Change & Alternative Visions
This course explores three key social movements in American history. The struggles
for workers’ rights, racial justice and women’s liberation are explored through
fiction, autobiographies, speeches, film, poetry, music, diaries, historical accounts
and political analyses. In addition, learners develop the analytical tools needed
to critically evaluate a range of political philosophies and create an alternative
political/spiritual vision.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 301 and 302
Credits: 4
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HUSB 305 - Issues in Research
This class introduces the theory and methodology of action research, descriptive
statistics and the utilization of primary and secondary source materials. Students
develop the ability to critically examine research and statistical analyses and
gain the baseline skills needed to carry out the initial research required for
the group project.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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HUSB 307 - Human Services Portfolio Development
This course introduces students to adult learning and development theories and
the information and skills necessary to succeed in a demanding non-traditional
program. Using their own life histories as case studies, students examine a variety
of issues that pertain to their own development and acculturation. The course
helps students develop the capacity to effectively document their experience and
articulate their college-level knowledge; thus it provides a foundation for Portfolio
preparation. This course can be waived for those students who will not submit
a Portfolio.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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HUSB 330 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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HUSB 331 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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HUSB 332 - Group Project in Community Development & Change
The Group Project constitutes three terms, each of which is worth four semester
hour credits. Working together in groups of two to five members, learners identify
a problem in a given community and design an action research plan to address it.
The Group Project provides the opportunity to be directly involved in grassroots
work to impact a community’s social dynamics and to practice the methodological
skills acquired in CJWB 305. Learners’ responsibilities include needs assessment
and analysis, history of the issue and of the community, group development, problem
framing and solving, formative and summative evaluation, and the practice skills
needed to implement the project.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 305
Credits: 4 s.h.
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HUSB 416 - Senior Seminar
Students participate in this seminar during their final term. It serves as the
culminating vehicle for their reflection, analysis and articulation of lessons
learned at the school and the relationship of these learnings to their practice
in the communities of work and home. These lessons are assessed to measure how
and what one has learned and to explore the implications for one’s future development.
Credits: 2
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CJWB 131 - Women and Crime
This course explores in depth three aspects of the relationship between women
and
crime: 1) women as offenders; 2) women as victims of crimes; 3) women as social
control agents with special attention to women as police officers.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CJWB 145 - Politics of Prisons
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CJWB 151 - Criminal Justice: An Introduction
This course provides an overview of crime and the criminal justice system in the United States. Three themes are discussed: the history, philosophy, and function of the system; punishment and rehabilitation; and education and training for professionals in the system.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 152 - Police and the Modern Society
This course examines the historical, sociological and political context of police work. It analyzes the differing role expectations facing the police as well as the conflicts caused by corruption and professionalization.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 153 - Victimization
This course provides an introduction to victimization including theory, social trends, intervention skills and the role of institutions and social attitudes in the dynamics of victimization. The importance of empowerment in overcoming victimization is stressed.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 154 - Corrections
An overview of the elements of correctional institutions, the course examines such areas as processes, trends and practices of the institutions, prisoner rights, parole, release centers and government support of ex-offenders.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 155 - The Criminal Court System
This examination of the procedures and values of the court system emphasizes state, district and juvenile courts.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 156 - Crisis Intervention
This course covers both frequent and unique situations that might require intervention. It will cover theoretical areas such as crisis theory and the management of interpersonal conflict as well as specific situations such as rape, child abuse, potential suicides and hostage incidents.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 160 - Criminal Law Concepts
This course covers the historical development and philosophy of criminal law.
Criminal law will be examined within the historical, legal, and applied contexts.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CJWB 165 - Law and Social Change
Law and Social Change
Credits: 3
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CJWB 210 - Constitutional Interpretation
Constitutional Interpretation
Prerequisites & Notes
Credits: 3
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CJWB 239 - Ethics and Law
This course includes an inquiry into the relationship between morality and law;
their
organic interrelationship in the natural tradition;the contemporary debate illustrated
by the issues of human and civil rights; development of the Civil Rights movement;
civil disobedience and civil disorder.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CJWB 240 - The Changing Nature of Criminal Justice
In order to prepare students within the criminal justice field for the challenges
that lie ahead, this course assists students by exploring the significant major
(and
minor) changes that have occurred in the past several decades. Victimology,
domestic and international terrorism, as well as changes in trends of violent
crimes will be analyzed in depth. The focus of the course will be on offering
students the opportunity of up-to-date knowledge in a changing American criminal
justice system.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CJWB 249 - Juvenile Justice
This course examines the operation of the juvenile justice system in the United States including its social, political and economic context, its theoretical and ideological underpinnings, and current proposals for reform.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 250 - Special Topics
This course provides an opportunity for students to do an in-depth analysis on specific human services topics. The analysis will include looking at the issues from historical and cultural perspectives. The issues reviewed are developed by the instructor in collaboration with the class.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 282 - Law & the Politics of Poverty
This course examines the various ways the federal government has dealt with the problem of poverty in America. The course covers the years from 1950 to the present and examines the impact on poverty of certain programs.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 320 - Survey of American Jurisprudence I
This course surveys the U.S. legal system with a particular focus on criminal law and procedures as well as individual rights and liberties. Specific components include an overview of state judicial systems, the doctrines of judicial review and separation of powers, substantive criminal law, criminal procedure and juvenile justice, police and judicial court systems, and individual rights and liberties.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 321 - Survey of American Jurisprudence II
This course extends the survey and examines such issues of civil contract and tort law as consumer protection, family and parent/child relations, housing law, landlord/tenant relations, individual rights and civil liberties.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 329 - The Administration of Community-Based Correctional Programs
This course examines a number of practice-related problems, including problems of work-release and other release programs for institutional inmates; administration of halfway houses; nonresidential programs for probationers, parolees, and drug abusers; community residences for juvenile offenders; and supervision of foster care programs.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 334 - Police Administration & Organization
This class examines police problems at the administrative level such as inspection and internal control devices; managerial improvement techniques; staff work; records analysis; decision-making at various levels; and preparation of administrative procedural and policy guidelines.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 345 - Politics of Prisons
This course examines how American prisons in the 19th and 20th centuries reflected external social forces. It examines conservative, liberal and radical approaches to prison reform from a critical perspective.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 365 - Law & Social Change
This course analyzes formal institutions of social control and their impact on social justice and social change. It examines the question of whether the legal process can initiate and sustain social change.
Prerequisites & Notes
HUSB 142 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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CJWB 411 - Violence & Social Control in U.S. History & Society
This course examines the nature and reaction of violence and deviance as well as the dynamics of institutions of social control. Students also study a range of violence (ethnic, political, economic, interpersonal), a range of demands (moral reform, segregation) and a range of institutions (police, militia and asylums). Its concerns are historical, sociological and practical.
Credits: 3
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CJWB 438 - Liability Issues for Public Officials
This course examines the responsibilities and duties imposed upon public officials and public employees in the performance of their jobs as agents involved in the implementation of public policy. The legal liability of police officials, welfare case workers, counselors and others is discussed in relation to federal civil rights statutes.
Credits: 3
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CYDL 210 - Alternative Theories in Youth Development
This course is designed to provide the students with the historical view of youth work
in the United States and an understanding of theories of youth work, such as the
principles of youth work in the context of community. The students conduct a
critical analysis of local, national, and international youth worker movements
and community development projects that are responsive, inclusive, and culturally sensitive
to the role youth workers play in facilitating the positive development of our youth.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CYDL 310 - Transformative Cross-Culture Youth Leadership
This course is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to compare
and contrast transformative with non-transformative models of youth leadership
development in the context of communities. The students examine, analyze and
reflect on how personal identities as leaders and leadership practice have been
influenced by the models of transformational leadership introduced in the course.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CYDL 340 - Building Competencies in Community Youth Work
Community youth development and leadership work involves special challenges
that require unique skills and understanding. This course gives students the
opportunity to explore the skills and knowledge needed to build the competencies
required to work effectively with youth. Through readings from the course reader,
case studies, classroom discussions, group experiential exercises, and videos,
students are introduced to best practices in youth work.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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CYDL 420 - Counseling Youth
This course provides an introduction to counseling work with youth. Individual,
group, family, peer and multisystemic counseling models found to be effective
with
adolescents are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the importance of considering
the
adolescents’ gender, ethnic/racial background, family structure, economic status,
sexual orientation, religious affiliation, etc. when designing counseling interventions.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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HUSB 101 - Administration I
This course examines the dynamics, strategies and tactics of legal policies, personnel work and the development of a healthy work climate.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 102 - Administration II
This course examines how power and politics influence organizational life, organizational change and the implementation of innovation.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 104 - Basic Management Skills
This course emphasizes the improvement of skills in managing human service programs through a study of management functions, theories and systems as well as situational leadership, decision-making and planning.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 107 - Decision-Making
The course focuses on decision-making theory, options and implications. Case-study methodology is utilized.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 108 - Creation of Alternative Settings
This course is for those committed to creating viable alternatives to traditional social service institutions. Students examine the personal costs and benefits of alternative settings; the relationship of alternatives to more traditional settings; the problem of scale; and formative evaluation.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 109 - Group Techniques & Analysis
This course provides students with opportunities to learn the dynamics of group and organizational life. The focus is the nature of authority as well as interpersonal, intergroup and institutional dynamics. Much of the work is experiential within a theoretical context.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 111 - Education, Work & Social Welfare
This course is an introduction to the field of human services, its history and evolution in the US, and the values and ideologies that shape and influence its practices. Through sharing and comparing personal experiences in education, work settings and social services, students develop a critical analysis of human services, with particular attention to the role of culture.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 112 - Human Services & Health
This course explores how various human conditions (e.g., poor housing, economic depression, child abuse, spouse abuse, welfare status) affect the health of the individual. Students examine the mutual dependency of the health care delivery system and the general human services system.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 113 - Health, Professionalism & Social Justice
This course examines professionalism and bureaucracy with particular reference to their conflicting meanings, messages, implications and interactions. The class also examines how people gain, maintain or lose skills; mechanisms through which people are placed in passive positions or take active control; and the process through which people learn the roles of “client,” “paraprofessional” and “professional.”
Credits: 3
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HUSB 114 - Structural Analysis of American Society
This course examines theories of bureaucratic structures at the macro- and micro-levels of society. Students study political, social, educational, economic and religious organizational structures in America. At the end of the course, students are able to analyze, review and understand the way in which American society is structured.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 117 - Volunteerism & Human Services
This course explores the impact of volunteerism on the delivery of human services. Through a study of its historical context, students examine the current applications of volunteerism as an economic human resource and critical support mechanism for delivery of human services. Each student analyzes at least one human service agency and the ways in which volunteers contribute to the effective functioning of the agency.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 118 - Oral Communication
This course examines the principles and techniques of persuasive public speaking. It emphasizes student performance and refines skills in pronunciation, speech, public speaking and effective communication.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 119 - Communications Skills I
This course prepares students to write essays, term papers and other formal compositions. Organized and concise writing with appropriate spelling and grammar are major objectives of the course. Conceptual analysis and synthesis skills are emphasized throughout the course.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 120 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment
This course presents basic fundamental knowledge about human behavior and the social and cultural context of development in the human life cycle.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 122 - Introduction to Basic Counseling Techniques
With a particular emphasis on empathy techniques, this course explores issues of assessment, listening, responding, transference, counter-transference, the conceptualization and organization of intervention, and effective cognitive and behavioral strategies.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 126 - Social Service Networks
This course looks at how people are referred to various agencies, how information about them is used, the obligations agencies have to follow up on referrals, and whether or not the agencies work cooperatively to solve human service problems. It also provides a theoretical understanding of networking.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 127 - Special Topics in Counseling
This is an advanced course focusing on a specific area of counseling. Adult development, career, behavioral, holistic health and child sexual abuse are among the possible focuses.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 130 - Introduction to Community Organizing
This course provides students with a theoretical foundation for such practical aspects of community organizing as: why organize; who is an organizer; when to organize; how to execute one’s plans effectively; how to build coalitions and support groups; and how to negotiate.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 131 - Introduction to Community Development
This course explores how economic policies and decisions affect legitimate community development projects. Students are responsible for applying community development theories and practices in the area of cooperatives, land trusts and other programs.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 132 - Public Policy
This course introduces the dynamics of public policy. The course looks at the structure and function of state and city governance, the legislative process and methods for influencing it, the relationship between the executive and legislative branches of state government and current issues facing state and national legislatures.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 133 - Issues in Community-Based Development
This course assesses how the economy operates at national and community levels. It examines financial, housing and land issues with particular reference to community economic development.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 136 - Puerto Rico: Analysis & Perspectives
This course deals with the political, economic and social history of Puerto Rico and of Puerto Ricans in the United States.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 138 - Critical Thinking Through Literature
This course uses current literature to illustrate alternative ways of thinking about the human condition and making sense of social issues. Discussion will compare and contrast students’ present experiences with personal, institutional and cultural structures, assumptions and norms with the perspectives introduced in the literature. Students explore views that are grounded in body, mind, emotion and spirit with the goal of clarifying and enhancing their own critical processes. The course involves structured experience, imagery, discussion, reading, writing and creative expression.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 140 - Theories of Counseling
This course examines the different theories of psychotherapy and how these theories affect counselors and their clients.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 141 - Computer Literacy
This course will familiarize the student with basic concepts needed to purchase and make effective use of microcomputers. Differences in computer architecture will be explored from a user rather than a technical perspective, and students will explore a wide range of applications in order to understand how a computer can contribute to the effectiveness of an organization or group.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 142 - Law & Legal Advocacy
This course familiarizes students with the history and structure of the United States legal system on the federal, state and local levels with particular reference to issues of case advocacy and class advocacy.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 143 - Contemporary American Literature
This course examines literature dealing primarily with the social issues contemporaneous with various authors. The content is diverse, reflecting gender, race, class and cultural issues.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 146 - Writing Skills I
This course helps students improve their writing skills as they engage in various forms of writing for social change. Through formal research, oral presentation and text-based analysis, students learn the fundamentals of journalistic documentation, journalistic advocacy, theory and proposal writing, and speech writing.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 147 - Advanced College-Level Academic Skills
Utilizing substantive human resource development materials, this course develops the linguistic and academic skills useful for advanced academic study. These skills may be classified as receptive skills, productive skills and study skills.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 150 - African-American History
Within an historical context, this course examines the impact that the African-American experience has had on social change movements in the United States. Beginning with early slave revolts and ending with more recent political activism, particular emphasis will be placed on the interplay between African-American social change theory and the promise of “The American Dream.”
Credits: 3
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HUSB 151 - Mathematical Inquiry
This course provides an opportunity to build comfort and skill in mathematics
through exploration. Such an approach is especially valuable for people who have
developed habitual anxiety around mathematical activity. Students will explore
the foundations of mathematics through activities that lead to an understanding
of the patterns that give it structure.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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HUSB 152 - Early Childhood Development
This course studies different areas of child behavior as well as important theories of child development. It explores the misinterpretation of change and the difficulties this causes for children in their personal and social adjustment.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 156 - Crisis Intervention
This course covers both frequent and unique situations that might require intervention. It will cover theoretical areas such as crisis theory and the management of interpersonal conflict as well as specific situations such as rape, child abuse, potential suicides and hostage incidents.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 166 - Music & Empowerment
This course examines the role of music, especially singing, in community building and empowerment. Through readings, films, listening to music and group singing, the course explores music as a tool for social change, community development, healing and education. Special focus is given to the cultural and religious roots of music. Students learn tools for using music in their own human service and community work.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 185 - Adolescent Development in Context
Cross-cultural and historical perspectives on adolescence and biases regarding
youth are explored in order to examine the issues of adolescence in the context
of an ever-changing world.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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HUSB 203 - Administration: Finances
This is an intermediate course focusing on long-range planning and the role of grant writing, fund raising, fiscal management and agency relations.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 205 - Financial Management of Human Services Agencies
This course examines the dynamics and elements of financial management. Students will learn how to develop and assess financial plans, ensure accountability, and develop and manage a budget.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 206 - Public Relations for Community Organizations
This course introduces the concepts and skills of public relations for community organizations through readings and discussions with speakers from all branches of the media. It covers topics that include writing and submitting press releases; the design, layout, and printing of flyers, posters, and newsletters; and production techniques for radio and television.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 211 - Effective Parent-Child Relationships
This course enables students to apply their understanding of effective parent-child relationships in a relevant and realistic manner to their work with clients and life. Contemporary theories about parent-child relationships are explored.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 212 - Family Therapy
This course examines the theoretical premises and many of the practical applications of family therapy. It covers how interpersonal systems function and applies these insights to work settings.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 218 - Family Counseling & Understanding Diverse Cultures
This course introduces major theoretical approaches to family therapy. Students learn to analyze the interactions of family structure, ethnicity and the impact of social control agents in determining appropriate helper responses. Ways in which the service providers’ ethnicity, culture and race influence their perceptions are also explored.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 220 - Ecology
This course examines the basic principles of ecology that help explain the relationship between social action and environmental conditions. Causes and effects of environmental change will be analyzed as well as how change can affect community health. Scientific methods of investigating and documenting environmental health threats to one’s community will be represented. This course includes a lab component involving field trips relevant to case studies.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 221 - Interviewing Techniques
This course enables students to acquire interviewing skills, develop sensitivity to the frustrations experienced by persons seeking help through the counseling process, acquire self-knowledge and awareness, and understand the necessity of confidentiality in the counseling relationship.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 222 - Exploring Women’s Issues Through Literature
This course examines how women’s power and self-concept are affected by the political, social and economic realities of one’s ethnic, class and racial/cultural background. The class explores these dynamics via literature written by authors of diverse life histories who raise these themes in their works.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 224 - Human Services Organizations
This course introduces students to the local and national service organizations in their respective communities and how these organizations deal with people and one another. Also included is the examination of legal and tax status and responsibilities of nonprofit organizations.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 225 - Dynamics of Case Management
This course explores the principles and practices of case management. It provides the beginning human service worker with practical information about brokering, consumer advocacy and mobilization of services with special attention on the consumer.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 226 - Urban Politics & Decision-Making
This course analyzes how communities, along with those agencies involved in change, struggle to change the relationships between the “have nots” and the “have a lots.”
Credits: 3
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HUSB 227 - Intake & Referral
This course provides students with practical skills for client intake, assessment, interviewing, case recording, case preparation and referral processes. The course addresses issues of contractual relationships with other agencies, privacy and confidentiality, and sharing of information with referral sources.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 229 - Elementary Supervision
This course examines the principles of employer supervision including professionalism and interpersonal relations, evaluation and motivation of employees, personnel policies and practice, occupational psychology and the decision-making process through case studies of sexual harassment, racism, nepotism and other forms of arbitrary decision-making.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 230 - Political Economy of Human Services
This course in the political economy of the United States examines the connections between the factors driving human services and the factors driving the economy. The course assesses proposed strategies for action.
Credits: 4
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HUSB 232 - Child Development
This course presents an introduction to the fundamental knowledge of child development. Emphasis is placed on stages of empowerment in the human life cycle from birth to adolescence. Major theories are explored as well as physical and cognitive aspects of child development studied in a cross-cultural perspective.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 233 - Communications Skills II
The focus of this course is on developing advanced expository and analytic written and oral skills.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 234 - Health & Professionalism
This course explores issues surrounding the labeling, control and treatment of those who are seen as deviant as well as issues of institutionalization and de-institutionalization in health care settings.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 235 - Introduction to Human Service Research
This course emphasizes the production of research papers relative to substantive human service issues. Preparation, research methods, organization, composition and final presentation of research papers are the topics of the class.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 236 - Human Growth and Development
This course focuses on how to deal successfully with life changes/transitions as well as the associated stress and anxiety by understanding the stages of transition and their implications; analyzing established patterns of coping with change; and developing personal strategies for dealing with future transitions. Students will be provided with a learning experience that enables them to enhance their personal growth and development as well as begin the process of making positive life changes.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 238 - Data Systems for Human Services
This course explores techniques to increase the usefulness of word processing, spreadsheet and database applications through simple programming and integration. Topics include macro coding, database procedural programming, conditional spreadsheet formulas, report generation and application linking through simple system procedures.
Credits: 3
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HUSB 239 - Exploring Racial Perspectives Through Literature
This course examines the dynamics of racism and internalized oppression from
historical, sociological, cross-cultural and international perspectives. Literature
from authors with diverse life histories is the primary catalyst for this exploration.
Historical and sociological texts supplement the themes raised in the literature.
Credits: 3 s.h.
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