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Note: Unless otherwise noted, all undergraduate courses carry four (4) credits and are offered every year.
Note: The following course descriptions, while indicating the nature and scope of the CCPA undergraduate programs, are not a historical record. Most courses carry four (4) semester semester hours of credit and meet one or two times per week. In the following lists, credit hours other than four (4) are noted following the course title.
HDEV 101. EXPLORING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT:
THEORY AND PRACTICE I- 1 credit
Exploration of the theoretical perspectives of human development and professions that draw upon them. Introduction to the scholarship and practice of human development through a series of presentations and discussions by faculty concerning their research. Open to freshmen and sophomores in human development. Pass/Fail option only.
HDEV 102. EXPLORING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE II- 1 credit
Exploration of the theoretical perspectives of human development and professions that draw upon them. Introduction to the scholarship and practice of human development through a series of presentations and discussions by faculty concerning their research. Open to freshmen and sophomores in human development. Pass/Fail option only.
HDEV 200. INTRODUCTION TO INTERDISCIPLINARY
STUDY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES
Introduction to social science disciplines: anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology. Grounding in the social sciences as distinct, yet interdependent, disciplines. Qualitative and quantitative methods of inquiry; macro- and micro- levels of analysis. Examination of journals, books and other relevant academic materials to familiarize students with current interdisciplinary scholarship. Interdisciplinary analysis of both content and methods of scholarship.
HDEV 210. INFORMATION RESOURCES- 2 credits
Introduction to information sources and contemporary library research strategies. Evaluating, interpreting and synthesizing information. Development of search strategies to locate information using variety of electronic databases and standard print sources. Lectures, demonstrations and hands-on practice in a lab setting within the library. Pass/Fail grading only.
HDEV 300. SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHODS
Examination of two interrelated areas of academic inquiry: theory and research. Promotes acquisition and/or proficient use of analytical skills in critically examining socio-historical information and politico-economic arguments from different methodological perspectives. Attention to quantitative and qualitative methods.
HDEV 301.RESILIENCE AND COPING
Resilience as a contextual frame of reference to view human development, and contrasted with frameworks that emphasize diagnosis and deficiency. Risk factors and protective factors that influence development, within the context of family and broader systems. Coping responses and alternatives.Implications for rethinking service provision, particularly with regard to historically oppressed groups and communities, and fragmented systems of care. Course themes will include consideration of awe and respect in the face of survivorship.
HDEV 305. CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Integrated study of the bio-cultural, emotional, intellectual, social and psychological themes and growth patterns of children. Emphasis is placed on their implications for child-rearing, social practices and political policies.
HDEV 306. ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary overview of adolescence, including social, cultural and historical contexts for development. Physical and cognitive changes within the individual, together with socio-historical and cultural differences in our understanding of adolescence as a transitional period in life.
HDEV 307 (also NURS 325). NUTRITION THROUGH THE LIFE SPAN
Nutrition for the healthy and ill infant, child, and adult. Diet therapy for clients in relation to pathology of major body systems and psyche.
HDEV 308. GERONTOLOGY
Definition of aging, images of elderly. Life span perspectives, social milieu of aged. Multicultural exploration of aging. Institution of retirements, finances, social security or insecurity. Crime and drug abuse, mental health, death and dying.
HDEV 309. DEATH AND DYING
Definition, types and meanings of death. Fear and anxiety, suicide, euthanasia. Life span perspective, grief and bereavement, spiritual perspectives, funeral rituals.
HDEV 312 (also ANTH 334). COMPARATIVE ASPECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Human growth processes from conception to old age. Biological aspects of growth, with considerations of secular trends, individual and population variations, and cultural factors that maycan influence biological growth processes.
HDEV 314. SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS
Examination of sibling relationships across the life span and in context of society. Family systems theory and other frameworks to explain sibling interaction. Sibling rivalry, support systems, niche filling, abuse, incest. Birth order position, culture and gender influence on individual behavior, family roles, sociability, mate selection. Influence of ethnicity, social and economic resources, sexual orientation, gender and oppression.
HDEV 315. FAMILY SYSTEMS
Concept of the family unit as a social structure. Systems theory and family therapy literature are used to explain within-family interactions and impact of the family on its members. Family life cycle, multigenerational patterns, family work, communication, variations in family organizations, coupling-, and marriage. Issues affecting family life, including family violence, substance abuse, mental illness. Sociological research and conceptual frameworks to understand family interaction within context of society. Oppression, ethnicity, social and economic resources, sexual orientation and gender in terms of family life.
HDEV 316. WOMEN AND EDUCATION: LIFE AND
CAREER TRANSITIONS AT MID-LIFE
Influences of intergenerational and religious gender attitudes; economic, cultural, situational privilege and relation to women and quest for further education and/or career change. Time demands of school, career, family life and effect on other areas of a woman''s life. Issues of menopause and physical changes, life course expectations, “empty nest" syndrome, changing marital relationships, domestic neglect/abuse, traditional cultural expectations/definitions of "wife"and "mother."Options to clarify priorities and set goals for educational, career, emotional, physical and relational attainment and fulfillment at mid-life and beyond.
HDEV 317. TROUBLED FAMILIES
Explores a variety of ways that families become dysfunctional, how they maintain and perpetuate dysfunction and how they can heal. Family systems theory discussed in the context of families functioning within different and larger cultural systems. Emphasis placed upon how we honor cultural diversity as we explore what family function and dysfunction mean. Examination of common dysfunctions that affect individuals, marriages and families. Recent research and specialized programs explored.
HDEV 318. IMAGES OF THE FAMILY
Representation of "family" as a normative concept in U.S. history. Exploration of how our understanding of concept of family has changed to accommodate dominant economic, social, political agendas. Topics include gendered expectations, pathologizing differences, family stereotypes. Use of films, novels, multicultural readings.
HDEV 319. HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Ways in which society defines and explains social dysfunction largely direct how attempts to address these problems are made. Examination of a number of human conditions associated with social dysfunction. Behavior explained from a variety of viewpoints. Open systems theory used as foundation for exploring seemingly contradictory ways of understanding human behavior with context of social problems such as poverty, mental illness, educational failure, oppression, violence and substance abuse.
HDEV 320 (also WOMN 400S). WOMEN AND THE LAW
Ways in which women influence and are affected by our system of laws. Can one define a set of feminist legal theories? If so, how can such theories be used to recognize women as legal subjects?
HDEV 321. LATINAS/OS IN THE U.S.
Diverse experiences of U.S. Latinas/os. Questions of race, culture, class, gender from theoretical and socio-historical perspectives. Issues of racism in education, employment, housing, health care; development of cultural hybridity and other forms of social resistance. Examination of overlapping relations of European Americans and distinct populations of Latin American and Caribbean descent within North America, but also between Native Americans and Mexican/Chicanos and African Americans and Hispanic-Caribbean peoples.
HDEV 322. RACIAL FORMATION
Examination of the difference that difference makes: the difference that other "ethnic" experiences, very different from the white/European one, have represented and continue to represent in the U.S. Historical analysis of "whiteness"; analysis of necessarily conflictive intersection of race, class, gender and culture as complex socioeconomic structures, systems of meaning and lived experiences.
HDEV 324. MOTHERING: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON CARING
Interdisciplinary exploration of women's experiences, with particular emphasis on diverse caring, nurturing or mothering activities that women and men do irrespective of whether or not they are biological mothers. Experiential accounts of mothering; feminist theoretical approaches to mothering; personal perceptions of mothering and fathering. Mothering iswill be viewed as a social construction with historical, cultural, political, class and ethnic variation.
HDEV 325. AMERICAN FAMILY AND AMERICAN HOME
Historical roots, contemporary structure, legal structure of American family. Place of the family within pluralistic landscape of contemporary American life. Idea of the family for women and children; different perspectives from viewpoints of maids, au paires, prostitutes. Ways various cultural, racial, gender groups and social classes have developed different understandings of ""the family"" and ""home"" and how that refines theour idea of the American family and American society generally.
HDEV 326. THEORIES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Interdisciplinary study of development across individual, social, historical and cultural contexts. Overview of field; linking theory, research and practice. Multicultural, psychological, sociological theories; different methodological approaches to study of development; ways in which theory and method become translated into practice.
HDEV 327. SOCIO-HISTORICAL MEANINGS OF CHILDHOOD
Social, historical, cultural factors that affect the ways in which people understand the concept of "childhood." What it means to be a child across time, economies and cultures, rather than emphasis on biological or age determinants.
HDEV 328. ADULTHOOD
Adulthood from the perspective of stage theories and timing of events models. Adulthood as a stage of development, limitations of stage theories. Effect of socio-economic and cultural factors, family status roles, employment status, gender, ethnicity/race, age on adult lives.
HDEV 333. SOCIAL CONTEXT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE U.S.
Socio-historical analysis of interaction of black people and American environment, from slavery to migration to urban areas and subsequent isolation in the black ghetto.
HDEV 340. MULTICULTURALISM
Exploration of possible meanings of pluralism in the U.S. Histories of racial formation (including construction of whiteness), material erasure and subordination, and cultural domination that have shaped contemporary social fabric. Distinction between structural and ornamental pluralism; relation between monoculturalism and culturalism domination. Creation, recognition, promotion of multicultural public spaces; complex unity; complex communication; possibility of a heterogeneous critical citizenship.
HDEV 341. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Survey of social problems. Topics may include poverty, race relations, violence, sexism, drug addiction, AIDS, urbanization. Emphasis on interdisciplinary understanding of relationships of concepts and theories to modern social problems on local, national, global levels. Use of interdisciplinary literature, fiction, film to provide more inclusive framework for understanding social problems. Students will be expected to spend time in the community researching a particular social problem.
HDEV 342. SOCIAL STRUCTURES
Sociological analysis of American society. Structure and interrelations of major institutions. Recent social movements and social change. Comparative and historical analysis of urban industrial society.
HDEV 343. ECONOMICS OF POVERTY AND DISCRIMINATION
Examination of economic problems of poverty and racial discrimination. Analysis of public policies such as income maintenance programs, minimum wage legislation, affirmative action, education and housing policies.
HDEV 344. CULTURE AND CONTEXT IN DEVELOPMENT
Theories, themes, issues of ongoing interaction between people as they grow, change, develop over the life course, and the social context in which this occurs. Assumptions about human behavior that may interfere with recognition of diversity in ongoing interaction among individual, family and group identity, social context and social life. Impact of culture and context on development, particularly as social inequalities, modes of domination, resistance. Roles of ethnicity/race, class, language, religion and gender in development.
HDEV 345. PEACE AND WAR
Variety of approaches to the study of peace. Exploration of assumptions: that state of peace and justice among nations and people leaves much to be desired; that teaching needs to be more relevant to the search for peace and human well-being in a rapidly changing world; that only by feeling, thinking and acting as planetary citizens in a globally interdependent world can we begin to understand how to approach a state of world order; that a paradigm shift from one centered on war to one centered on peace is imperative; that a paradigm for peace must embrace an understanding of personal change in human beings, as well as structural change in the public order.
HDEV 346. INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS
Critical interdisciplinary examination of dynamics and political nature of institutions and organizations; emphasis on power relationships within the organization and influences from outside the organization.
HDEV 347. RELIGION AND CULTURE
Major religions of the world and relationship with corresponding cultures in various times and places. Analysis of how religions relate to each other, to the state and to people; how people deal with and try to control (or not) religious organizations.
HDEV 348. POLITICS OF EDUCATION
History of education in America and basic characteristics of education policy and policy making. Understanding of contemporary issues in their formulation, implementation and evaluation. Focus on how larger social issues are reflected in the life of schools and how they maymight be transformed.
HDEV 349. WOMEN, FEMINISM AND POLITICS
Exploration of history of "women" in the U.S. since mid-19th century. Focus on individual and community experiences to assess dynamic variation in women's class, racial/ethnic and gender identity formation; differential treatment based on race, class and gender at different levels of society; women's response to the structural arrangements that affect their lives.
HDEV 350. MEDIA AND SOCIETY
Impact of media on public opinion, public participation, societal attitudes and behaviors toward race, class, gender, human values. Use of media analysis theory and skills to explore influence of politics, industry, economics and technology on American media.
HDEV 351. CULTURES AND CRISIS
Exploration of cultural change in face of colonialism, post-colonialism and perceived social threats felt by various societies of the world. Issues of history, economics, religion, culture and language, and effect upon various cultures and ways people of these cultures respond to change. Case studies from U.S., Europe, Africa and Polynesia.
HDEV 352. GENDER, POWER AND DIFFERENCE
Examination of how construct of difference raises important questions about problems faced by most women of color in general vis-à-vis historically existent feminism, both as a political movement and as an academic current. Multiple ways of theorizing women's rights and struggles; ideological differences among feminists and women's rights advocates. Focus on issues of race, gender, sexuality and culture within context of reproduction, the family, reproductive rights, feminization of poverty, social services, academic disciplines, language, discourse.
HDEV 353. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONSTRANISITIONS IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
Examination of changes in ways social and governmental structures adapt to new economic trends; ways in which economic factors are linked to international political conflict.
HDEV 354. RECREATING A SENSE OF PLACE: COMMUNITY, COMMITMENT AND CITIZENSHIP
Connections among class, race, gender and place. Theoretical base in urban cultural geography. Use of case studies, narratives, film, fiction. Issues of power and access to jobs, education, housing and connection to local, national and world location.
HDEV 355 (also ANTH 156). WOMEN AND CULTURE
Historic and contemporary debates relating to anthropological examinations of women. Roles and status of women in various cultures, including western and non-western societies. Issues include women''s work, mothering, reproductive rights, status, class.
HDEV 356. DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Theory, practice and manifestations of oppression. Various methods and techniques of working toward an effective strategy for combating oppression.
HDEV 357. GLOBAL ECONOMY: INTERNATIONAL ISSUES
Socio-economic exploration of broad range of international issues, including Asian crisis, the European Union, demise of the Soviet Union, emergence of international corporations, influx of illegal immigrants to the U.S.
HDEV 358. RACE AND ETHNICITY
Study of ethnicity from a cross-cultural perspective. Comparative perspective of case studies from both wWestern and non-wWestern societies. Topics dealing with everyday aspects of ethnicity, including ethnic images in advertising, joking and ethnic stereotyping, ethnic socialization and education. Reflection of student experiences from a critical perspective.
HDEV 359. REGULATING THE POOR
Critical examination of dynamics of causes, consequences and potential remedies of poverty in the U.S. History of public assistance and other poverty-related social programs. Implications for families of proposed changes in current welfare system. Analyses of power and implications of race and gender and socio-economic status.
HDEV 360. HUMAN RIGHTS AND WORLD POLITICS
Focus on role of human rights in world political arena. Exploration of historical progression of importance of human rights with special emphasis on U.S. and international organizations. Types of human rights; ways states have attempted to incorporate promotion of human rights into foreign policies. Role of ethics and morality in politics; arguments of the Realist and Idealist schools.
HDEV 361. SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s
Analysis of social movements of the 1960s, including decolonization movements in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia; civil rights movements; Black Power and Young Lords; Chicano movements in California and Texas; anti-war movements; environmental, CISPES, women's movements; gay and lesbian rights movements. Deepening understandings of these movements, their particularities, relations and tensions among them; developing theoretical tools to better approach such topics.
HDEV 362. CIVIL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES
Freedom of expression, privacy, freedom of religion, equal protection under the law, due process and rights of the accused. Socio-historical contexts that have shaped on-going debates about and laws governing these issues.
HDEV 363. CURRENT ISSUES IN ECONOMICS
Application of economic theory to analysis of current problems such as inflation, social security, federal deficit and debt, role of government, globalization trends.
HDEV 364. WOMEN, RACE AND REPRESENTATION
Exploration of two overlapping questions: How women are individually and collectively situated and how they shift within existing social frameworks; and the ways in which these changing positions are represented within contemporary U.S. visual media. Cultural conflicts, patterns of groups and personal development, small- and large-scale political agency, social and textual contradictions, ideological symbols. Examination of ways in which representations of women have been understood in terms of race and in terms of how this racialization has intersected social class and sexuality within dominant U.S. cultures. Critical theorizations of how women change over time, in recent feminist film criticism and in cultural theories by women and men of all races.
HDEV 380C. DIVORCE CULTURE: RELATIONSHIPS AND DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES
Exploration of the current divorce crisis in the U.S. Social, economic, cultural, and political factors that influence and support the decline and dissolution of what is currently one out of every two marriages. Special emphasis on the mystery of romantic love, focusing in particular on its potential to disrupt and reproduce power relations between men and women. Life span of love, rituals of parting, legal and emotional factors involved in the dissolution process, gender bias within the legal system, effects on children and the reconfiguration of family structures and relationships in the post divorce period.
HDEV 380E. BLACK PSYCHOLOGY
Survey of black psychology from its historical roots to contemporary black psychological thought. Focus on the development of scientific racism in psychology and the social sciences and its impact in the lives of black peoples in the African Diaspora. Historical perspectives of black psychology and the black psychology movement. Critical topics in black psychology including black racial and ethnic identity; black identity, authority, and group dynamics; black sexuality; black families; black child and adolescent development; black adult development; health psychology in black communities; and contemporary black psychological issues.
HDEV 380I. BIODIVERSITY AND THE HUMAN LEGACY
Use of an anthropological perspective to examine how humans affect the diversity of plant and animal life around them. Particular emphasis on the relationship between human populations and environment in the western hemisphere, both present and past. Examination of biodiversity, followed by a critical examination of how humans have historically viewed their place in the natural world. Against a backdrop of environmental change during the most recent geological epoch, the Holocene, we explore ethnographic, historic, and archaeological evidence to understand various issues related to the impact of humans on their surroundings. Subjects that will be investigated include fire management, forest clearance, agricultural and hunting systems, erosion and desertification, resource depletion, pollution, and modifications brought about by human habitation.
HDEV 380L -ANTHRO OF SEX & SEXUALITY
Examines sexuality. Readings, lectures and films help us to explore historically and cross-culturally varying productions of sexuality -- its histories, meanings, and uses -- in Euro-American and non-Western societies and in relationships among them (via colonialism, imperialism, and globalization). Emphasis on links between sexuality and the development and maintenance of gender differences, class differences, and race/racisms. Case studies range from 19th-century Europe and colonial Asia to late-20th-century Caribbean, Southeast Asia, North Africa, Pacific Islands, and the U.S.; include topical investigations of queer sexualities, transgender, prostitution, HIV/AIDS, sex tourism, "family values," and more.
HDEV 380M. (ALSO ANTH 380M). ANTHROPOLOGY OF WOMEN'S REPRODUCTION
Guided by evolutionary principles and the recognition that culture shapes human experience, the course examines the biological and cultural determinants of variation in reproductive life histories among women and among populations. For majors and non-majors.
HDEV 380S. CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES:SENEGAL
Focus on sociological, cultural, and developmental issues of this small democratic country in West Africa. A two-week, on-site experience in May 2002 will provide opportunity for further exploration of culture, human services and education institutions in Senegal.
HDEV 380U. MULTICULTURALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
This course will explore the construction of individual and group identities on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity/nationality, along with the constructions that can exist at the borders of these lines. The course focuses on anthropological concepts regarding cultures and diversity along with theorizing from Cultural Studies and Post-Colonial Studies. The idea of multiculturalism along with its critiques will be debates in class. Multiculturalism will be looked at in the United States and beyond, along with the affects of imperialism, globalization, and transnationalism/diasporas.
HDEV 380X. GENDER, SPACE/CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Examination of a range of assumptions, social ideologies and theories underlying the concept of space and its relations to issues of gender. Social relations surrounding formation of capitalism, the politics of location and the reflection of resistances, especially of the marginalized voices. The course will not be limited to experiences in the U.S., it will incorporate an array of experiences in other parts of the world, especially Asia, Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. Among some of the debates will be how informed are we of the ways women from non-western societies symbolically create and negotiate spaces? What is gender's epistemological impact and cultural specificity of society?
HDEV 381A/AFST 389E. BLACK CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
Survey of the psychology of Black child and adolescent development focusing on conceptual and theoretical aspects of psychological development within an African Diasporic context. Examination of the concept of self contextually and the connection to Black psychological development and how Black culture has been instrumental in shaping the lives of Black children and adolescents. Social identity and societal factors relating to Black child and adolescent development (i.e. race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation).
HDEV 381C - VISUAL JOURNAL
With introduction and continued investigation and discussion of journal making, each participant produces a personal visual journal while individually and collectively considering what is personal and public, or personal and political, and what in the process may be sensationalism, catharsis, memory, reflection, confession, rereading construction and anticipation. Each participant produces one or more forms of regularly accumulated visual journal entries. These may be in book form or in another form. After introduction and discussion, each participant produces a syllabus.
HDEV 381E. DISABILITY IN SOCIETY
Phenomena of disability and how perceptions are formed related to this phenomena. Lifespan of individuals with disabilities including family life, education, health issues, work, independence, social activities, and the milieu of services available. Disability to groups of individuals who are not traditionally thought of as disabled, but who face challenges not unlike those who do have disabilities.
HDEV 381G. WOMEN AND AGING
Issues related to aging and their impact on women. Using an empowerment-oriented economy of aging, mental health relationships, grandmothers raising grandchildren, sexuality and intimacy, residential needs, death and bereavement, and public policy and health care.
HDEV 381H. FAMILY VIOLENCE
Overview of the impact of violence on the family and discussion of strategies for dealing with the problems it creates. Symptoms seen in survivors of violence as well as recommended treatment approaches will be discussed.
HDEV 381M – WOMEN AND VIOLENCE
In order to stop violence against women, one must attend to violence against women of color. This course is motivated by the concerns voiced by people who identify as women of color struggling to stop violence against women. We will study what they are saying counts as ‘violence’ against them, where it comes from, how to stop it. Often, battered women have been treated as ‘objects of research.’ This course will depart radically from this methodology. Rather, their insights will be used to raise new questions for research. We will reflect on what their insights mean to us, as individuals, as a class, as community members (from whatever community in which we count ourselves) and as associated with the University. So, this class has a practical and activist bent in that sense.
As it turns out, understanding the issues brings us not only to focus the relation of race, gender, and class but in particular, to analyze the role of the state. Given the accounts voiced by activists, including activist-theorists and activist-scholars, interpersonal violence and state violence intertwine to oppress women. One sees this, for instance, in the reports of police officers arresting battered women in domestic violence incidents, in the particular forms of brutality undocumented women face, or in the systematic attempts to sterilize Latina, African American, and Native American women. Under the state, women of color are living under a structure of vulnerability. The growth of the criminal justice system at the same time as the shrinking welfare state has also brought many women into conflict with the law, particularly poor women, lesbians, sex workers, immigrant women, women with disabilities, women racialized as non-white, and other marginalized women. During the past fifteen years, the numbers of women, especially women of color, in prison has skyrocketed. In reflecting on this issue, we are not only to understand the complex nature of violence and the role of the state in perpetrating and perpetuating violence, but also how we can contribute to developing the movements, strategies, and analyses that address both the state and interpersonal violence, particularly violence against women of color.
HDEV 381R (ALSO PSYC 239). MULTICULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Overview of multicultural psychology. Examination of human behavior and perspectives are influenced by culture factors, including variations in race and ethnicity as well as variations in gender, class, sexual orientation and disability.
HDEV 381V (ALSO AFST 289F). PSYCHOLOGY OF OPPRESSION
Examination of the psychology of oppression in Black psychological contexts focusing on critical works in this area (e.g. Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, Aime Cesaire's Discourse on Colonialism, Elaine Pinderhughes' Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Power: The Key to Efficacy in Clinical Practice, Michelle Fine's Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society. Intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexual orientation relate to privilege, powerlessness, and authorization for contemporary Black psychology.
HDEV 381W (ALSO AFST 289D). HIP-HOP
Development, history, communication style, dance form, moral framework, and process of globalization. What is hip-hop? Relationship between rap, dub, and hip-hop; key figures of this global movement. Examination of the myriad dimensions of this culture, through its music, lyrics, spoken word poetry, music videos, dance styles, films, and political messages. Active participation in oral discussion of music videos, performance analysis, freestyle rapping, kinetic/locomotional art, and art production is worth 30% of the final grade. Students will monitor hip-hop trends, and must come to class prepared to discuss the assumptions, visions and social ideologies underlying the conflicts.
HDEV 381X . POLITICS AND FILM
Relationships between politics and film from a variety of perspectives. First it will examine the political content of films, especially in films on political subjects like war and peace, revolution, electoral politics, racism, and feminism. Second, it will examine the history of the film industry, its relationship to other media, and the role of the film industry in politics. Finally, the course will consider a variety of theoretical perspectives that address the relationship between politics and the media, and especially film.
HDEV 381Z. WOMEN AND VIOLENCE
History of governmental and institutional response to violence against women in the U.S. Contemporary responses by women and especially women of color who are activists, lawyers, and theorists who think critically about violence against women. Focus on ways in which methods, practices, forms of intervention, resistance, or consciousness fit or do not fit with forms of therapy, social work, criminal justice administration, that is, institutional responses to violence against women. Myth of unitariness and homogeneity in the experience of violence. The question of methodology; differences between different women and how they see the world, how they see, conceive, articulate, and resist the violence they face. Particular attention to how they see the law and social services.
HDEV 382B – THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN’S BODIES
Students will gain understanding of the psychological and cultural issues surrounding women's bodies. The course will cover these issues within a developmental framework, beginning with the development of sexual differentiation, development of gender identity and gender role. Issues surrounding puberty and menstruation will be covered next, followed by body image, pregnancy, child birth, breastfeeding, health concerns and aging.
HDEV 382N. WOMEN: MOTHERHOOD/ OCCUPATION/ EDUCATION
Use of books published in different countries, (especially in the US and China, which have different social systems) to explore women's issues that are related to the social structures of education, culture and family: cultural conflicts, dilemmas in motherhood and occupation, psychological representations, and social recognitions. Analysis of women's past and status quo to trace down the changes that have been brought about since the late 19th century,review of feminist theories and practices,examination of interrelations within those social structures. Coursework and class discussion will be conducted in terms of feminist theories and practices and individual original ideas.
HDEV 382P - MULTICULTURALISM
This is a course about the complex relations that make the USA as both a multicultural and a monoculturalist society. These relations include relations of power that hide, mute, tone down, mold, privatize, eradicate the lives, persons, and cultural practices--including the languages--of those who have been historically exploited, targeted for extermination, enslaved, marginalized. The relational study includes white, Anglo, European Americans in positions of power as well as Irish, Jewish, Italians. It also includes Mexicanos/as-Chicanas/os, immigrants from Asia as well Americans of Asian Descent; American Indians, Africans and African Americans. The study focuses on the formation of races, on cultural and material domination, and on the circles of resistance to domination and abuse formed by those placed as the Other, the oppressed, in this history of abuse. The complex relation among members of this society will be explored theoretically through the introduction of a wide and long sense of self.
HDEV 382Q – PSYCHOLOGY OF RACISM
This course will provide students with an opportunity to examine the psychology of racism and racial identity in multicultural communities with a focus on critical works in this area [e.g. Claudia Jones, Frantz Fanon (Wretched of the Earth), Aime Cesaire (Discourse on Colonialism), and Paula Rothenberg (Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study and White privilege: Essential readings on the other side of racism)]. Within this context, we will focus on how the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexual orientation relate to dynamics of power, powerlessness, authority, privilege, and resistance for contemporary perspectives in multicultural psychology. More specifically, we will examine the concept of race as a worldview; psychological perspectives on colonialism; Frantz Fanon, Claudia Jones, and the psychology of oppression; understanding the impact of racism; conceptual understandings of racism, authority, and resistance in Asian communities; Whiteness, authority, and privilege; Albert Einstein and the impact of racism.
HDEV 382R – SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
This course seeks to sort out the multi-layered processes that create, perpetuate, and challenge stratification and inequalities within and across societies. The focus of the course moves from the global context to that of the US, whereby students will analyze their own location within the power and wealth structures. A special feature of this course is its emphasis on the interconnectedness of global, regional, national, and local realities, contemporary and historical, as they affect the lives of people in everyday domains. Differential access to wealth, resources, institutions, and decision-making power has implications for material, interpersonal, and psychic well-being. The course addresses the marginalization as well as highlights the resistance of those denied equal opportunities and outcomes, and in doing so point to the potential for the transformation of inequitable societal conditions.
HDEV 382U – CIVIL RIGHTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
What are civil rights? How does American society define, defend, and restrict them? In this course students address these and other issues through an historical examination of the civil rights movement in America from the late 19th Century to the present day. We will focus on key individual, organizations, and events. Students will work with primary documents and film to supplement the assigned readings. Previous course work in American history is helpful but not required.
HDEV 382V – TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
This courses explores the impact of digital technology on society from a sociocultural perspective. Social attitudes and behaviors are authentically examined by means of direct student participation in a wide range of digitally based learning experiences. The cultural consequences of digital technology will be identified and analyzed within the context of values associated with human development
HDEV 382W - HIP-HOP II
This writing course uses hip-hop as a frame for the critical analysis of U.S. cultural and social forces. Topics as hip-hop and the market economy; the appropriational tactics of the music industry; the relationship between Reaganomics and the growth of hip-hop; the connection between 1980s U.S. foreign policy, immigration, and the urban youth culture; rap and misogyny; the logic of the poetic profile of Tupar Shakur; the Smalls-Shakur-Puffy deadly conflict; gangs, hard-core rap and ignorance; the African aesthetic of verbal jousting and the Nas/Jay-Z Battles; hip-hop trends as forms of resistance to exploitation; and the impact of globalization on the musical genre.
HDEV 395. INTERNSHIP variable credit
A learning experience integrating theory with practice in a health, human service, criminal justice, community, education, non-profit or business setting. Faculty sponsor required. Open only to matriculated students in the Department of Human Development.
HDEV 397. INDEPENDENT STUDY variable credit
Individual research of special topics not offered elsewhere in the curriculum. Demonstrated academic ability and approval of proposed subject are required. Open only to matriculated students in the Department of Human Development. ConsentPermission of instructor is required.
HDEV 401. AGING, SOCIETY AND SOCIAL POLICY
Aging as a social phenomenon. Biological, psychological, social factors in the aging process; demographic and ecological conditions of aging; problems of retirement; public policy and politics related to aging. Factors affecting aging: hereditary factors, physical and social environment, disease, nutrition, medical care, exercise, financial status, ethnicity/race, gender, stress.
HDEV 402. YOUTH AND SOCIAL POLICY
Critical examination of issues in social control and social policy in youth development. Role of gangs, drug cultures, family, media, community structures. Focus on youth-based organizations and alternative forms of policy formation through the lens of race, class, ethnicity and gender identities.
HDEV 403. ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Relationship between public education and human services. Topics include role of education in the human condition; political and cultural structure of schooling; public schools as human service delivery systems; historical perspectives in current practices; human service professionals' interaction with the schools.
HDEV 404. COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Description of the growing relationship and integration of services between orthodox medicine and alternative medicine. Healing modalities and theories; acupuncture and Ayurveda; high-tech practices; light and sound machines. Holistic practices treating person as a multidimensional being in context of own environment.
HDEV 405. JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM
Philosophy, history and development of juvenile justice system. Attention to services and treatment programs.
HDEV 406. ISSUES IN CRIMINAL CORRECTIONS
Development of corrections; impact of incarceration on the offender and society. Historical evolution of corrections; role of sentencing in correctional process; role of local, state, and federal agencies; community sanctions; prisoner rights; changing profile of offender population; treatment/rehabilitation in corrections.
HDEV 407 (also ANTH 242). MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: HEALTH POLICY
Health and nutritional implications of planned culture change; contributions of anthropology to health policy decisions in development organizations, comparative health delivery systems.
HDEV 408. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WORK SERVICES
Introduction to the social work profession. Specific focus on role(s) of social work within major areas in social welfare, including child welfare, crime and delinquency, mental health, health care and aging.
HDEV 409. CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY
Perspectives of the crime problem and what government can do about it. Exploration of current trends of crime and violence. Examination of public opinions about crime and its control, including juvenile delinquency and public policy regarding juvenile offenders.
HDEV 410. SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY
Comprehensive exploration of substance abuse policy in the U.S. Influence of social, cultural, historical, economic and political factors that guide policy making and service delivery. Examination of current drug control debate, including legal and illegal drugs, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
HDEV 411. THEORIES AND SKILLS OF HELPING PROFESSIONS
Theories and skills used in helping professions (counseling, social work, psychology). Emphasizes development of professional relationship, phases of the helping process and problem-solving methods.
HDEV 412 (also NURS 324). SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH CARE 2 or 4 credits
Sociological, anthropological and cultural views of health care. Belief systems as determined by religion, culture, society and history. Influence of cultural views and belief systems on health and health care.
HDEV 413. SOCIAL REFORM IN THE U.S.
Examination of social reform movements of last 200 years in America, including abolitionism, nativism, populism, progressivism, labor, civil rights, feminism, environmentalism. Influence on American society; future for social reform in U.S.
HDEV 414. POPULAR EDUCATION
Different theories and practices of popular education. Models developed by Gramsci and Friere. Ways in which popular education and movements for social change have been historically intertwined.
HDEV 415. ISSUES IN HUMAN SERVICES
Overview of contemporary human services. Emphasis on variety of ways human needs are met by agencies. Dilemmas faced by human service workers.
HDEV 416 (also UNIV 300H). GENERAL EDUCATION PROJECT
Application of General Education courses to study and research in one of the following: 1) Individualism and social responsibility; 2) Scientific discovery and ethical behavior; 3) Public leadership and stewardship. Problem framing, solving; collaborative learning and research; use of computer technology and telecommunications resources. Synthesis of General Education experiences; relationships of lower- Department courses to major; bridge between undergraduate courses; graduate courses, world of work.
HDEV 417. SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUES IN HEALTH CARE
Survey of the current status of health care in America. Analysis of the major health care systems and the dynamics of our transition from a system of individualized patient care to a system of institutionalized treatment management. Interaction between patients and the institutions which serve them.
HDEV 418. SOCIAL WELFARE POLICY
Broad understanding of social policy in the U.S. Historical perspective to examine development of social policies on issues including poverty, mental health, employment, child welfare. Facilitate critical and creative thinking about philosophical, political, and practical bases of social policy.
HDEV 419. ISSUES IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Relationship of criminal justice to other aspects of American culture at different points in history. Emphasis on cultural values found in the criminal justice system, not on legal doctrine or institutions. Issues that challenge criminal justice system; moral values and decisions; worldview and cultural assumptions.
HDEV 420. COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
Theoretical foundations, historical context, social value of community mental health. Exploration of importance of situating mental health services within community as a whole. Understanding of service as useful insofar as it is reflective of the community's self-defined needs.
HDEV 421. FUTURES AND THE HUMAN SERVICES
Examination of forces of change challenging human services in years ahead; necessary actions required to successfully guide human services through transitions anticipated ahead.
HDEV 440. PRINCIPLES OF CASEWORK
Introduces casework principles: interviewing, assessment and case theory, professional ethics and values; contracting, intervention, other related counseling topics used in service agencies, institutions, programs and organizations.
HDEV 441. THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING
Overview of counseling theories. Detailed look at psychotherapy; counseling techniques used in everyday situations; cross-cultural issues in counseling. This course does not offer professional training in counseling.
HDEV 442. GROUP COUNSELING
Group work examined as major approach/method/technique for addressing a number of human development and growth issues. Theoretical approaches to group work: psychoanalytic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, transactional analysis, behavioral, rational emotive and reality therapy. Development of eclectic model of group practice. Solidifying a personal leadership style for working with groups.
HDEV 443. COUPLES AND FAMILY THERAPY
Theoretical foundations, practice applications, ethical issues of couples and family therapy. Couples and family assessment and intervention process. Research on couples and family treatment. Ways of understanding family interaction and intervention are critiques and considered in regard to class, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity.
HDEV 444. ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE AGENCIES
Overview of responsibilities in administering the public agency. In-depth examination of the many aspects of public agency administration and leadership. Client-centered approach in fulfilling administrative duties. Development of own philosophy and style of administration and leadership.
HDEV 445. COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT
Community development theory and practice; community development problems, history, actors. Models of intervention and range of such interventions, including housing development and community economic development. Issues of who defines community development agenda; relationship between physical and non-physical development. Examination of selected recent trends and emerging policy issues.
HDEV 446. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Systematic approach to changing business, government, nonprofit organizations of any size. Case studies and optional fieldwork familiarize students with wide range of issues confronting change agents, whether as organizational members or outside consultants. Exploration of models and methods for promoting positive change. Change processes; action research; interviewing and interventions; resistance to planned change, groups and change; consulting; evaluating organizational change.
HDEV 447. CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Conflict analysis, management and resolution. Branch of social science committed to the search for and perfection of alternative dispute resolution methods. Explanation of why conflicts occur at every level, from the personal to the global. Compares and contrasts competing explanatory paradigms. Conflict resolution advocates and teaches certain practices that are non-violent and non-coercive and are considered effective in building solid and satisfactory personal and group relationships. Reflection on the root causes of conflict (including issues of race, class, and gender); development of conflict resolution skills and practices.
HDEV 448 (also NURS 334). COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE 2 credits
Exploration of the common applications of computer technology and health care systems. Database and spreadsheet functions. Computer technology as an essential tool for resource management in modern nursing and health care delivery systems. Appropriate for non-nursing students interested in health care systems application of computer technology.
HDEV 449 (also NURS 332). HOLISTIC HEALTH PRACTICE 2-4 credits
Concepts of holistic health, holistic health nursing and practice. Focus on the investigations of non-traditional, alternative health practices. Topics include nutrition and vitamin therapy, therapeutic touch, relaxation techniques, massage, hypnosis, herbology, meditation, chiropractics and alternative birthing.
HDEV 450. BUILDING A BRIDGE TO THE 21ST CENTURY
Work life challenges in the 21st century from diversity, environmental conditions, international conflicts, limited resources. Necessities of adaptation, skills in working with diverse groups, use of interdisciplinary knowledge. Opportunity to practice skills, including information technology. Community-based learning projects included in course.
HDEV 451. PROGRAM EVALUATION
Basic theory and components of program evaluation through case studies. Conceptualization and planning; interpreting and reporting results; evaluation of programs in education, human services, criminal justice. Emphasis on community needs assessment and impact evaluation.
HDEV 452. UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS
Applications of behavioral sciences to understanding individual, group and inter-group behavior in organizations. Specific focus on optimizing individual effectiveness through principles of shared leadership; team learning approach. Topics include motivation, perception, communication, career/life balance, empowerment, ethics and social responsibility, organizational culture, valuing differences, group problem solving and decision making.
HDEV 453. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND DEVELOPMENT
Examination of factors promoting positive behavior, growth and change in professional relationships: professional-client, supervisor-staff, colleague-colleague. Development of students' individual professional personas and styles.
HDEV 454. LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS
Examination of leadership theory and processes in organizations. Characteristics and types of effective leaders; motivation; role of followers; context; values and ethics; leadership ethics; leadership development. Exploration of models and methods for promoting positive change. Change processes; action research; interviewing and interventions; resistance to planned change, groups and change; consulting; evaluating organizational change.
HDEV 455. MEDIATION AND THE ADVERSARY PROCESS
Major examples of tension between conscience and law for individuals and groups; source of conscience; nature of law; personal strengths; social pressures. Intensive study of mediation as an emerging, successful methodology for conflict solving in America today. Comparative analysis of mediation with arbitration and therapy, as well as the adversary/judicial system of dispute resolution.
HDEV 456. EMPLOYMENT LAW
Court system and ways civil matters are litigated. Concepts of subject matter and in personam jurisdiction. Pre-employment process, including advertising and posting positions; application process; post-employment issues, including protected and non-protected classes, civil rights statutes, internal governance, and state and federal regulations of health and safety.
HDEV 457. OVERVIEW OF CRISIS INTERVENTION
Foundations in crisis and trauma theory. Exploration of range of crisis situations and effects. Elements of assessment, strategies for intervention and worker self-care, with application to cases.
HDEV 457. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Human behavior in organizational settings. Topics include motivation, communication, leadership, group relations and organizational change. Use of reading, case studies and self-assessment exercises.
HDEV 458. GROUP DYNAMICS
Exploration and analysis of group and inter-group dynamics and impact on effectiveness of work groups. Emphasis on cross-gender and cross-race dynamics. Integration of group development theory with personal experience.
HDEV 459. INTRODUCTION TO ALTERNATIVE METHODS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Survey of alternative therapies in counseling to raise awareness of practitioner. Topics include hypnosis, gestalt, narrative, dance, art, drama, visualization and other therapies. Workshop format with presentations by practitioners.
HDEV 460. TEACHING AND LEARNING IN A DIVERSE WORLD
Different learning theories affecting teaching and the classroom. Understanding of early and contemporary learning theorists; variety of strategies to foster learning; consideration of learning needs of individual students.
HDEV 461. HELPING PROFESSIONS: COMPARATIVE AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Major overview and synthesis of psychotherapy, social work and education, and secondary review of ministry and criminal justice as helping professions. Historical roots; ideological assumptions; role and function in selecting and treating clients; training programs and professional ethics. Gaps and deficiencies in theory and practice; societal reactions to efficacy of the professions; criticism and defense of the professions.
HDEV 462. GENERAL CASE MANAGEMENT
Case Management is a survey course that focuses on the conceptual, theoretical, and practical foundations for providing case management services to individuals in various population groups that are being served by a wide array of human service organizations, as well as other service sectors of our society. The focus of the course will entail such topics as historical developments of case management, model approaches to case management, federal and state policies that impact case management practices, case management interventions, strength-based case management, case management in various service domains, interdisciplinary teams and case management, emerging trends that impact effective case management service delivery, and typical activities of case managers.
HDEV 480A – HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING
This course provides an introduction to the philosophy of education and the history of education while simultaneously exploring multiple formulations and constructions of the concept of 'culture' and the relationship of these constructions to school practices. The historical and philosophical underpinnings of education will serve as a landscape to frame the background of our discussions regarding these concepts of 'culture.' The interrelatedness and influence of historical, philosophical, political, economic and social events and considerations will be closely examined as we work towards rethinking and reconfiguring the 'cultural' landscape of schools.
HDEV 475. PRACTICUM IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Interrelationship of theory and practice explored in class seminar and field placement. Social, cultural, historical, economic and political factors guiding practice within field setting. Students must obtain approval of proposal for field experience from their faculty adviser in the semester before registering for the practicum. Prerequisites: HDEV 200 and HDEV 300.
HDEV 480A - HISTORY AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING
This course provides an introduction to the philosophy of education and the history of education while simultaneously exploring multiple formulations and constructions of the concept of 'culture' and the relationship of these constructions to school practices. The historical and philosophical underpinnings of education will serve as a landscape to frame the background of our discussions regarding these concepts of 'culture.' The interrelatedness and influence of historical, philosophical, political, economic and social events and considerations will be closely examined as we work towards rethinking and reconfiguring the 'cultural' landscape of schools.
HDEV 480E - FAMILY POLICY AND THE LAW
Children abandoned without positive role models in single family homes bombarded by violence on tv, film and video games surrounded by the presence of guns kids ultimately get into trouble. As society's despair rises so does the rate of childhood suicide. Explore the dynamics of balancing family responsibility, family values, and government intervention by way of the Court system and other public and private programs. Find out what works, what does not and why. How do we make policies that create public awareness and how do we take action
HDEV 480F - IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
Interdisciplinary overview of immigration as a critical force shaping the development of U.S. culture and history in the context of global events. Exploration of contemporary and historical immigration themes including; migration trends, economic impacts, legal status, trafficking/slavery, public support, acculturation processes, and implications for culturally competent service provision. Emphasis placed upon refugee protection as humanitarian response to global crises.
HDEV 480H - CHILD WELFARE POLICY
This course examines the framework within which child welfare services are provided and the context of child welfare services. The role played by the federal government in setting policy for the nation is reviewed. Using New York State as illustrative, the role of state and local units of government is addressed, as is the way in which state and local units of government, acting through public and voluntary agencies, fulfill their responsibilities to families and children. The unique part that is played by the family court is also covered.
HDEV 480S (ALSO LA&C 380S.) THE ART OF INTERVIEWS: RESEARCH AND PROPOSALS
Research methods in the social sciences including: bibliographic research, observation, fieldnotes, interviews (structured, and semi- and unstructured) and proposal writing (including the Human Subjects Research Review Guidelines). These methods are central to any student interested in doing research in various contemporary communities and politically relevant investigation. Students will complete exercises in participant observation, interviewing, and data analysis (qualitative and quantitative) while reading interesting case studies and current methodological and ethical debates in the social sciences. Active debate and discussion of individual research goals will be encouraged. The course will be especially useful for students involved in research for their student theses.
HDEV 480T. ELDERLY/FAMILIES IN COMMUNITY SETTINGS
This course is based on people's strengths and abilities and focuses on helping older adults and their families in various community settings. Course content will including using the strengths perspective in understanding the older person and her/his family, intervention with individuals and groups, protective services for older adults, long term care issues, ethics, and research opportunities.
HDEV 480X – SOCIAL ACTIVISM AND A CRITIQUE OF SERVICE
The purpose of this course is to help students understand the origins, development, and operations of private social programs and community institutions which emerged to address social problems that the government (local, county, state, and federal) has not been able to solve and/or that the government has not adequately addressed itself. Some of the issues to be examined include: the criminalization of poverty, multicultural questions, civil liberties and human rights, women’s health, the feminization of poverty, welfare rights, homelessness and housing problems, children’s literacy, groups against violence against women, teen-age pregnancy and single mothers, refugee rights and immigrants’ issues, etc.
Throughout this course students will examine the socio-historical background of how these groups originated in the Western world in general and the U.S. in particular (primarily during the late-19th century), how they expanded during the heyday of the Welfare State (late-1930s to early-1970s), and how such groups have become embattled and transformed during the current socio-economic decline and the uneven dismantling of the Welfare State. Part of the course involves students having a hands-on experience working with institutions such as the NAACP, National Urban League, YWCA single-mother’s program, Southern Tier Aids Program, Women’s shelters, domestic violence hotline, Southern Tier Women’s Clinic, committees working on refugee issues, immigrant’s rights advocacy groups, and others. After interviewing students and assessing their interests, the instructor will determine which students will be paired off with which community groups. Students will be required to keep a journal and prepare a written project related to their program experience. The course will also include guest speakers and short documentaries to complement the class readings. Other requirements include a midterm exam, final exam, and class participation.
Justification: CCPA has included as part of its curriculum a social activism component and a critical study of the service professions. In times of budgetary constraints, globalization-related social problems (e.g., growing Third World poverty and massive immigration to the U.S.), and increasing social strife within U.S. borders, these kinds of community programs have attempted to fill the gaps in social services the government (local, county, state, and federal) has abandoned or has let deteriorate. It befits the students of our school to obtain a better grasp of how this situation came into being and gain a better comprehension of the community programs that are trying to address it through among other things a direct, practical, and critical involvement by these students in the work of these programs.
HDEV 480Y – STRENGTH-BASED PRACTICE
Current practice models utilized in human service stress the places where clients are weak and often pathologize cultural diversity. This practice traps both service providers and clients in a problem-focused cycle of despair and hopelessness that often leads to poor treatment outcomes. Strength-based approaches in contrast envision cultural diversity as a major strength to be utilized to assist clients in rebuilding their lives. This course will demonstrate the “nuts and bolts” of utilizing strength-based approaches with a diverse range of client populations. The differences in assessment, intervention planning and implementation within this model will be explored in depth. The instructor will seek to prove that the often misunderstood strength-based approach to practice is practical and workable, regardless of the setting or population served. The strength-based approach will be contrasted with current service delivery models and the systemic constraints upon the model reviewed. The use of strength-based approaches to supervision and community/organizational assessment will be discussed to demonstrate the utility and flexibility of the model.
HDEV 495. INTERNSHIP variable credit
A learning experience integrating theory with practice in a health, human service, criminal justice, community, education, non-profit or business setting. Faculty sponsor required. Open only to matriculated students in the Department of Human Development. SEE ALSO HDEV 475 Guidelines and
HDEV 475 Cover Sheet.
HDEV 497. INDEPENDENT STUDY variable credit
Individual research of special topics not offered elsewhere in the curriculum. Demonstrated academic ability and approval of proposed subject matter are required. Open only to matriculated students in the Department of Human Development. ConsentPermission of instructor required.
