In addition to contact with agencies, the class conducts an inventory of a community, observes local conditions, and meets with officials. All student activity is under the instructor s direct supervision. Provides students with hands-on experience with a variety of client populations. In addition to contact with agencies, the class conducts an inventory of a community, observes local conditions, and meets with officials.
All student activity is under the instructor s direct supervision.
Topics include poverty, racism, legislation, health care, child abuse, single-parent families, mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, criminal offenders, and aging. Self-awareness and ethics in the practice of human services are emphasized. Emphasis on the need to develop strategies for confronting problems such as poverty, racial discrimination, sexual discrimination, and crime. The nature and dynamics of the relationship between minority and majority groups and the relation of these groups to social stratification, economics, political and educational institutions in the culture. Emphasis is on the uniqueness of the individual.