Course Descriptions and Objectives

SHS 112 - Child and Family Welfare

1. Analyze both strengths and weaknesses in the current systems serving our children, including what the trends are for the future.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of diverse families in the life of the child, and why services that strengthen families are important for the child.
3. Identify the factors that contribute to a child being at risk, including poverty, homelessness, and violence.
4. Describe methods used to support children when their families cannot do so, such as family preservation, foster care placement, residential treatment, and adoption.
5. Explain the importance of advocacy in gaining positive change for children and families, and describe ways to become involved in local, state, and national advocacy efforts.

SHS 113 - Law and Ethics for Addictions and Human Services

1. Demonstrate comprehension of the difference between ethics and the law.
2. Describe multidisciplinary perspectives that influence professional standards and legal mandates.
3. Articulate the importance of performing self evaluations, client consults and seeking ongoing supervision.
4. Integrate information from a comparison of several professional ethical codes, including those for human services and addiction professionals.
5. Demonstrate awareness and respect for the importance of cultural competency and the ethical codes that address related values.
6. Describe and summarize the need to adhere to federal and state laws and regulations related to human services or addiction work.
7. Demonstrate the ability to use Web-based research.

SHS 114 - Counseling and Interviewing Skills

1. Demonstrate the use of a variety of interpersonal communication skills to establish a therapeutic alliance, support client self disclosure, and move the process of counseling forward.
2. Identify the stages of the helping process and the specific objectives and tasks associated with each stage.
3. Identify how cultural differences between a counselor and consumer may influence the goals and methods a counselor uses to assist clients.
4. Describe how to collect and analyze information about the client, including history, life challenges and goals, and use this information to develop an intervention plan.
5. Identify and define the factors that influence people’s ability to cope with their life challenges using a bio-psychosocial perspective.
6. Explain how to assess the severity of a client’s issues and/or concerns.
7. Demonstrate interview skills to collect needed information about the client or consumer.
8. Demonstrate comprehension of motivation and change theory and its significance in shaping the goals and methods used in working with clients or consumers.

SHS 115 - Interpersonal and Groupwork

1. Identify and demonstrate interpersonal skills that facilitate communication and create a basis for empathy and mindfulness.
2. Describe and identify the basic types of groups and the stages of group development.
3. Explain and develop guidelines for group practice and ethical behaviors when facilitating or participating in a group activity or process.
4. Describe methods to deal with group dynamics and development.
5. Demonstrate the skills needed to plan for and lead a group process, including the designing of activities, group exercises, introduction, and closure.
6. Assess personal competencies to respectfully and effectively communicate with diverse clients and other professionals.

SHS 116 - Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies

1. Demonstrate an understanding of current cognitive and behavioral therapies and be able to explain their contribution to current treatment methods.
2. Describe various cognitive and behavioral techniques and explain their use in the human services field.
3. Formulate relevant questions about the ethics of using cognitive and behavioral techniques, and use critical thinking to consider controversies in the field.
4. Explain how the principles of cognitive and behavioral therapies are useful in a variety of settings, and be able to apply the concepts of behavioral analysis and cognitive therapy to various practical situations.

SHS 117 - Crisis Intervention

1. Identify stressors, challenges, and other factors that are likely to precipitate a crisis state.
2. Explain the stages, process, and goals of crisis intervention.
3. Demonstrate active listening skills that would be needed in a crisis situation.
4. Describe and demonstrate the skills needed to collect and analyze relevant information about a person in crisis.
5. Identify key risk factors associated with suicide and the warning signs of suicidal intent.
6. Describe the effects of crisis intervention on the human service worker.

SHS 121 - Case Management and Community Resources

1. Define the concept of case management.
2. Define tasks or functions of a case manager and the key components of the strengths-based case management approach.
3. Identify what kinds of knowledge and skills are necessary to effectively perform the case manager role.
4. Identify the essential elements of a comprehensive individualized service or personal responsibility plan (also referred to as a case plan).
5. Identify a basic process for resolving ethical dilemmas involving service delivery.
6. Describe the process of making effective referrals.

SHS 145 - Introduction to Disabling Conditions

1. Explain the characteristics, causes, and prevalence of disabilities, and describe employment prospects for individuals with disabilities.
2. Research community resources for high and low tech accommodations used at work and at home.
3. Describe the psychosocial developments that disabled individuals and their families undergo.
4. Demonstrate use of respectful language while portraying people with disabilities.
5. Research and describe support systems and services available for people who have disabilities.

SHS 151 - Therapeutic Activities

1. Define the role of an activities assistant and the theory underlying activity therapy.
2. Identify and describe educational and experiential requirements for activity therapy professionals.
3. Design or enhance an activity program specific to relevant populations, such as seniors or youth; those with disabilities, addiction, or mental illness; or consumers in recreational settings.
4. Demonstrate ability to plan and facilitate individual and group activity sessions.
5. Demonstrate skills needed for activity related documentation.

SHS 152 - Creative Therapies

1. Identify and describe the history and current use of a variety of creative therapy modalities.
2. Identify and describe educational and experiential requirements for creative arts therapy professionals.
3. Select and describe techniques for integrating creativity into therapy practice.

SHS 155 - Special Topics

1. Describe current information and issues relating to the specific seminar topic.
2. Identify resources related to topic for further exploration or use with consumers.
3. Explain implication and application of specific seminar information for social service workers and consumers.

SHS 160 - Exploration in Human Services

1. Develop a focused plan regarding the application of off-campus educational or volunteer experiences to individual career goals.
2. Demonstrate understanding of a topic area or community agency that is relevant to the general field of human services by attending workshops or seminars, volunteering, or completing other specific professional development activities including research.
3. Evaluate course experiences and apply them to human service work in the form of a written report.

SHS 161 - Aging in America

1. Describe “ageism” and its impact on social integration of older adults.
2. Explain the historical context for the status of older adults in contemporary American culture, including how and why the status of the elderly has changed since Colonial times.
3. Describe “aging,” a developmental stage of adulthood that is positive.
4. Differentiate normal age-related changes from illnesses that can occur in the later part of life.
5. Identify adaptive options to the many transitions American adults may experience as they age.
6. Define “successful aging” and strategies for health maintenance.
7. Identify cultural factors that influence/limit individual ability to achieve one’s greatest potential as an adult.
8. Identify professional objectives associated with service provision to this cohort.

SHS 162 - Aging and Health

1. Identify theories of aging and social myths that portray aging as an illness.
2. Identify and describe the major age-related changes in biological functioning, i.e., normal aging.
3. Identify how gender, socioeconomic status and culture affect the potential health of older adults.
4. Describe the most prevalent diseases of older adults (acute and chronic) and explain their influence on functioning.
5. Identify techniques for assisting older people with sensory losses and physical impairments adapt and function at their optimal level.
6. Describe issues associated with institutional living for the older adult.
7. Identify preventative and health promotion principles and strategies, and recognize the signs indicating the need for medical attention during older adulthood.
8. Explain the financial impact of aging and chronic disease on society.
9. Identify community resources that support healthy aging.

SHS 165 - Working with Bereavement

1. Describe the difference between grief, bereavement and loss.
2. Describe some of the cultural belief systems related to death, dying and bereavement.
3. Explain the biological, psychological and social implications of dying on all affected by the death.
4. Identify the supports that human service providers can offer to the dying and their families in preparation for death.
5. Explain the ethical and legal considerations associated with critical care, the dying and the dead.
6. Describe options for care for the dying such as hospice, POLST, advance directives, end of life consultation and other end-of-life care options.
7. Articulate the tasks of grief and how death informs all other types of losses.

SHS 166 - Senior Services Navigation

1. Define the role of senior services navigation with individuals and their families.
2. Describe current systems of senior services, including primary care and behavioral health, housing, activities and wellness, retirement/assisted living/nursing options, and end of life.   
3. Identify preventative health and wellness strategies for older adults in culturally specific communities.
4. Engage interdisciplinary team members in care coordination.
5. Recognize signs indicating need for medical attention during older adulthood.
6. Identify end of life needs and issues for aging individuals and their families.

SHS 170 - HIV/AIDS Training for Health Professionals

1. Identify general clinical course of HIV infection and progression to AIDS.
2. Identify epidemiological trends, determinants of transmission, and factors influencing the risk of infection of HIV and other infectious diseases (such as STD, HEP B, HEP C, and tuberculosis).
3. Identify methods of testing used to diagnose HIV and track the course of HIV/AIDS.
4. Identify counseling needs and drug therapies used in HIV treatment, side-effects, and special considerations.
5. Identify methods to reduce personal and workplace risks of acquiring HIV/AIDS, including brief interventions.
6. Develop skills to manage personal fear and resistance in caring for HIV/AIDS-affected individuals.
7. Identify psychosocial effects of HIV/AIDS for clients, patients, and families.
8. Develop strategies for making legal and ethical decisions that affect clients with HIV/AIDS.
9. Identify culturally competent approaches to promoting client knowledge in prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

SHS 185 - Human Growth and Development: CD

1. Describe development, including biological, cognitive, and psychosocial, as an ongoing set of processes across the lifespan.
2. Analyze different developmental events from the perspectives of several theories and recognize those theories when used by others to explain events.
3. Identify the research methods used in the study of human growth and development and be able to evaluate their usefulness.
4. Describe development from the perspective of diverse consumer populations and explain developmental controversies related to these differences.
5. Recognize important developmental concepts and be able to apply them to a variety of career settings.

SHS 186 - Youth and Emerging Adult Development: CD

1. Describe youth development, including biological, cognitive, and social-emotional, as an ongoing set of processes, from early adolescence to emerging adulthood.
2. Analyze the developmental changes experienced by youth from a cultural and historical perspective.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of gender, culture, ethnicity, age, family, peers, and the development of identity on the growing adolescent.
4. Explain problems youth and emerging adults may face, and show an understanding of the influence of media and technology on development.

SHS 200 - Introduction to Prevention

1. Identify risk, resiliency and protective factors and processes in individuals, families, and communities impacted by unhealthy living patterns, social/emotional dysfunction, violence, or substance misuse.
2. Describe various models of prevention and the steps in the prevention planning process.
3. Identify and demonstrate application of criteria for evaluating success of prevention strategies and programs.
4. Assess and differentiate ethical community prevention activities.
5. Demonstrate the application of theories and techniques of prevention planning and community readiness in various situations.
6. Describe and demonstrate a sensitivity to the cultural issues critical in the design and implementation of prevention activity and tailor tasks specifically for efforts with diverse populations.

SHS 206 - Advocacy In Human Services

1. Define the various types of advocacy, including agency, legislative, legal, community, and personal.
2. Analyze the ethical principles involved in advocacy.
3. Describe ways to become involved in advocacy efforts at the local, state, and national levels.
4. Demonstrate communication skills, strategies, and attitudes necessary in advocating for a variety of groups and issues.

SHS 207 - Introduction to Grant Writing

1. Explain the process and procedures involved with writing a grant to support a variety of programs.
2. Demonstrate ability to research and evaluate funding sources on a local and national level.
3. Be able to develop a basic grant proposal, including a concrete project plan, action steps, outcomes and budget.

SHS 208 - Behavioral Health Services Navigation

1. Define the role of behavioral health navigation with individuals and their families.
2. Describe current systems of behavioral health services, including mental health, chemical dependency, domestic violence, suicide and self-harm, abuse and neglect, and trauma.
3. Identify needs of specific behavioral health populations including children, older adults, and culturally specific communities.
4. Engage interdisciplinary team members in care coordination.
5. Describe and demonstrate skills necessary to administer mental health first aid.

SHS 216 - Counseling Theories

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key concepts and methods underlying contemporary counseling theories, including person-centered, behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, systems, and brief approaches.
2. Compare and contrast counseling theories to identify common elements and significant differences in how service is provided to clients.
3. Formulate questions relevant to selecting appropriate methods for use with a variety of clients in different treatment settings.
4. Develop, articulate, and provide rationale for one’s own theory and practice base relevant to specific populations in the area of human services.

SHS 218 - Survey of Mental Illness

1. Describe the history of mental health treatment and cultural issues that influence attitudes toward mental health services for providers and consumers of services.
2. Identify the features of mental health disorders according to the DSM-5, including symptoms, risk factors, functional impairment, and case management challenges.
3. List common psychotropic medications used for various mental health disorders and explain the role of human service workers in medication management.
4. Identify the interactions between mental illness and addictions, and explain treatment protocols for clients diagnosed with co-occurring disorders.
5. Analyze the programs and effectiveness of the mental health service delivery system in Washington state.
6. Describe the mission and goals of support organizations for the mentally ill such as NAMI and the services they provide.

SHS 219 - Working with Diverse Populations:CD

1. Describe enhanced cultural awareness of living values, life experiences, beliefs, and cultural norms in several ethnically varied populations.
2. Define and describe the complex dynamics of culture, ethnicity, cultural heritage, prejudice, and concepts regarding racial diversity and societal struggles.
3. Identify related aspects of personal cultural and ethnic profile and describe how current beliefs, knowledge and values might impact clients.
4. Identify important resources likely to be useful in counseling culturally diverse or marginalized members of society.
5. Articulate an understanding of respectful service delivery in human services and the importance of competence in various cultures in order to provide meaningful and relevant counseling.

SHS 222 - Pharmacology of Psychoactive Drugs

1. Describe the impact of psychoactive drugs on human body, including ingestion, absorption, metabolism, effects on brain, liver, vascular, organs, and acute and chronic states of related disease, and repair.
2. Explain the fundamental pharmacological properties of each drug classification and the mechanics of their entry and impact throughout the body and brain.
3. Explain common medical, psychological and cognitive conditions that may precede, coexist or be created by drug misuse, and which mimic intoxication, toxicity, and withdrawal.
4. Identify physical, pharmacological and psychological implications and symptoms of intoxication, withdrawal, and toxicity for each and all psychoactive substances alone and in interactions with one another.
5. Explain the impact of chronic intoxication on cognitive abilities and find research that substantiates this information.
6. Explain the nature of physiological detoxification, homeostatic dynamics and indicators of recovery for each drug classification.
7. Demonstrate ability to access and coordinate research on psycho-physiological impact of drugs from various library research and text readings.

SHS 225 - Group Treatment in Addiction

1. Describe skills involved in forming a group, selection of members, facilitating goals, therapeutic activity and criteria for outcome review.
2. Describe and model skills necessary to assist group members through entry to group, skill building in conflict, trust building, goal setting, and giving feedback.
3. Describe and model ethical awareness in all professional counseling activity including confidentiality, documentation, and ethical client treatment.
4. Identify and describe accepted culturally appropriate group counseling models for therapeutic group activity.
5. Describe and demonstrate in role play and scenario the ability to assess the developmental stage of group and changes in leader’s role at each stage.
6. Explain importance of the leader’s role in making constructive responses when client behaviors are inconsistent with their stated goals, and assist group becoming therapeutic in communication, goal focus, mutual support, and recovery process.
7. Describe a leader’s need and ability to adapt clinical interventions and counseling strategies based on individual characteristics of client: special needs, culture, health and mental status.
8. Demonstrate awareness of methods to assess stage of group development, and direct group process and content accordingly.
9. Demonstrate effective communication skill instruction and the ability to lead therapeutic interactions within mock role play group sessions.
10. Identify resources, supervision methods, and location of evidence based practices to facilitate constant personal and professional growth in group therapy skills.

SHS 226 - Addiction and Youth and Family Systems

1. Describe the impact of addiction on the family system, including roles, boundaries, relationships, and development during both active use and recovery.
2. Explain the age-specific needs common to adolescents and how addiction impacts development into adulthood.
3. Identify current screening instruments used for assessment of addiction in youth and describe client placement according to ASAM criteria as it applies to this population.
4. Demonstrate skills necessary to successfully engage adolescent clients in the interview and assessment process.
5. Explain confidentiality regulations of Washington state and exceptions in how they apply to adolescents and families.
6. Identify methods used to involve the family in the treatment and recovery of their family members with addiction, as well as for themselves.
7. Demonstrate ability to assess and refer individuals, youth, and family members to appropriate resources to support and sustain recovery.

SHS 227 - Assessment and Case Management in Addiction

1. Describe and demonstrate the initial assessment procedures and interview procedures with the goal of gathering important case history using a comprehensive set of instruments.
2. Explain the client engagement goal to prioritize with the client their treatment options and goals for treatment and recovery.
3. Describe related federal and state laws and agency regulations regarding confidentiality, client care standards, documentation of treatment events, and progress and outcomes according to ethical guidelines.
4. Describe verbally and in writing the symptoms of substance abuse and dependency, and the importance of accurate diagnostic procedures and documentation.
5. Demonstrate basic familiarity with initial diagnostic skills that include the use of the DSM, screening instruments, ASAM placement, various assessment history, and psychosocial instruments in tests and simulations.
6. Express a conceptually accurate understanding of various treatment options,such as confidentiality release forms, common admission procedures, and client orientation and admission activity.
7. Demonstrate the skills necessary to assess client’s readiness for change; reassess level of motivation throughout treatment, and revise placement criteria and treatment plan.
8. Describe in writing the necessity for client referral to other community resources and the need to network to maintain those relationship for smooth client transition.
9. Identify Washington state patient records regulations and how to maintain current, formal court testimony in a secure and well organized chart.

SHS 229 - Addiction Counseling and Relapse Prevention

1. Describe the impact of addiction on the family system, including roles, boundaries, relationships, and development during both active use and recovery.
2. Explain the age-specific needs common to adolescents and how addiction impacts development into adulthood.
3. Identify current screening instruments used for assessment of addiction in youth and describe client placement according to ASAM criteria as it applies to this population.
4. Demonstrate skills necessary to successfully engage adolescent clients in the interview and assessment process.
5. Explain confidentiality regulations of Washington state and exceptions in how they apply to adolescents and families.
6. Identify methods used to involve the family in the treatment and recovery of their family members with addiction, as well as for themselves.
7. Demonstrate ability to assess and refer individuals, youth, and family members to appropriate resources to support and sustain recovery.

SHS 230 - Pre-Practicum

1. Demonstrate skills and knowledge learned in earlier classes such as: listening skills, group process, and ethical decision making.
2. Evaluate personal readiness for a practicum and set preliminary learning goals.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the skills of creating a resume, researching agencies, site selection, preparing for an interview, and clinical documentation.
4. Explain the requirements, tasks, challenges and responsibilities required to insure success in a practicum setting.
5. Demonstrate the ability to complete interviews and evaluate sites for match with personal goals and setting for practicum.

SHS 231 - Beginning Field Practicum

1. Apply discipline skills and abilities learned in classroom to a community setting.
2. Identify professional challenges of the assigned role in the human service agency.
3. Observe and analyze information gained during placement at the community setting.
4. Examine and evaluate personal thinking as well as the thought process and perspective of others.
5. Demonstrate ability to write clear and well organized reports appropriate for the community setting.
6. Demonstrate listening skills that positively enhance relationships in a community setting, and show ability to work as part of a professional team.

SHS 232 - Advanced Field Practicum I

1. Apply skills and abilities learned in previous practicum settings and the classroom to a community site.
2. Identify professional challenges of the assigned role in the human service agency.
3. Observe and analyze information gained during placement at the community setting.
4. Examine and evaluate personal thinking as well as the thought process and perspective of others.
5. Demonstrate ability to write clear and well organized reports appropriate for the community setting.
6. Demonstrate listening skills that positively enhance relationships in a community setting, and show ability to work as part of a professional team.

SHS 233 - Advanced Field Practicum II

1. Apply enhanced skills and abilities by participation in additional practicum hours in a community site.
2. Identify professional challenges of the assigned role in the human service agency.
3. Observe and analyze information gained during placement at the community setting.
4. Examine and evaluate personal thinking as well as the thought process and perspective of others.
5. Demonstrate ability to write clear and well organized reports appropriate for the community setting.
6. Demonstrate listening skills that positively enhance relationships in a community setting, and show ability to work as part of a professional team.

SHS 255 - Special Topics

1. Describe current information and issues relating to the specific seminar topic.
2. Identify resources related to topic for further exploration or use with consumers.
3. Explain implication and application of specific seminar information for social service workers and consumers.

SHS 260 - Managing Difficult Behaviors

1. Identify common situations that are stressful and tend to bring forth or trigger undesirable and disruptive behavior from clients.
2. Identify characteristics of agency environments that interfere with appropriate service provision or outcomes.
3. Identify the most common clinical conditions that present challenges to staff members working with difficult clients.
4. Identify and describe common disruptive and potentially dangerous client behaviors encountered by human service workers who provide services to people with mental illness.
5. Describe the process of respectfully approaching and engaging a client who is upset or agitated and angry.
6. Identify the components and stages of emotional escalation and how to facilitate de-escalation in an agitated client.
7. Identify and describe possible interventions to reduce the frequency and severity of problematic client behaviors.
8. Describe proactive behavioral interventions based on standard presentations associated with select diagnoses, e.g., Alzheimer’s, dementia.
9. Identify the importance of and process for seeking and using consultation and clinical supervision in the work place.
10. Identify the personal and professional issues workers bring to the service environment that impact client response, both positively and negatively.
11. Identify how cultural variables affect the expression of distress and can impact the definition/perception of and response to difficult behaviors and consumers.

SHS 299 - Special Projects

1. Develop a focused plan regarding the application of off-campus educational or volunteer experiences to individual career goals.
2. Participate in activities in the community, including volunteering, attending workshops or seminars, or completing other specific professional development activities including research.
3. Evaluate course experiences and apply them to human service work in the form of a written report.

SOCSC 155 - Special Topics

1. Examine and evaluate social science information and arguments from different source forms.
2. Express their findings in formal and informal writing, classroom discussion, online discussion, research projects, and/or oral presentations.

SOCSC 198 - Individual Project in Social Science

1. Produce work through independent exploration and expression on a focused area of interest or need.
2. Demonstrate learning objectives as determined by the supervising instructor.

SOCSC 255 - Special Topics

1. Demonstrate learning objectives as determined by the supervising instructor.
2. Examine and evaluate social science information and arguments from different source forms.
3. Express their findings in formal and informal writing, classroom discussion, online discussion, research projects, and/or oral presentations.

SOCSC 298 - Individual Project in Social Science

1. Demonstrate learning objectives as determined by the supervising instructor.
2. Demonstrate capability in the development, implementation, and completion of a total project adhering to established procedures and due dates.
3. Express their findings in formal and informal writing, classroom discussion, online discussion, research projects, and/or oral presentations.

SOC& 101 - Introduction to Sociology:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of social issues.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze social issues.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence social structures and processes and examine the role played by collective behaviors.
4. Analyze and assess the impact of social forces and structures on people’s lives.
5. Explain and analyze how race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social identities and group relations affect people’s lives and shape social structures.
6. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding social issues.
7. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their applications both orally and in writing.
8. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 115 - The Sociology of Gender:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of issues related to gender.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to gender.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence gender relations and examine the role collective behaviors play in changing these relations.
4. Analyze and assess institutionalized gender relationships and their impact on people’s lives.
5. Describe and analyze the relationship between historical and contemporary gender inequality.
6. Explain and analyze the intersections of gender with race and ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and other social identities.
7. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding gender.
8. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to issues related to gender both orally and in writing.
9. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 118 - Introduction to Global Studies:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to analyze international and intercultural relations.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze international relations.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence international relations and examine the role played by collective behaviors.
4. Analyze and assess the ways in which social structures and processes shape international relations and impact people’s lives.
5. Analyze and evaluate the roles of nationality, race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social positions and identities in shaping individuals’ lives and the structures of international relations.
6. Identify and assess economic, demographic, political, ecological, structural, and cultural indicators of development.
7. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding international relations.
8. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to international relations both orally and in writing.
9. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 125 - Race and Ethnic Relations:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of issues related to race and ethnicity.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to race and ethnicity.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence racial and ethnic relations and examine the role collective behaviors play in changing these relations.
4. Analyze the ways in which race and ethnicity are part of social institutions and assess the impact of racialized institutions on people’s lives.
5. Describe and analyze the relationship between historical and contemporary inequality with respect to race and ethnicity.
6. Explain and analyze the intersections of race and ethnicity with gender, social class, sexuality, and other social identities.
7. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding race and ethnicity.
8. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to race and ethnicity both orally and in writing.
9. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 130 - Sociology of the Environment:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of issues related to the environment.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to the environment.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence their environment and examine the role collective behaviors play in bringing about environmental changes.
4. Analyze and assess the ways in which social structures and processes shape issues related to the environment and impact people’s lives.
5. Analyze the roles of nationality, race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social identities in producing differential outcomes related to the environment at both the individual and structural levels.
6. Describe and explain the relationship between historical and contemporary attitudes regarding consumption and its effect on the environment.
7. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding the environment.
8. In individual and group projects communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to the environment both orally and in writing.
9. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 150 - Health in Society:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories and concepts to the analysis of issues related to health.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to health.
3. Analyze and assess differences in patterns of health and illness related to nationality, race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social identities.
4. Explain and analyze the ways in which conceptualizations of health and illness differ according to cultural groups and socioeconomic backgrounds.
5. Explain and analyze how illness and its spread can be prevented or reduced in ways that are sensitive to cultural and economic differences between social groups.
6. Compare and contrast healthcare systems across nations.
7. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding health.
8. In individual and group projects communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to health both orally and in writing.
9. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC& 201 - Social Problems:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of social problems.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze social problems.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people influence social structures and processes and examine the role collective behaviors play in changing social issues.
4. Analyze and assess the impact of social forces and structures on people’s lives.
5. Explain and analyze the roles of nationality, race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social positions and identities in both influencing and producing social problems.
6. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding social problems.
7. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to social problems both orally and in writing.
8. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 214 - Sociology of the Family:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of issues related to families.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to families.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people actively create and shape families in society.
4. Analyze and assess the ways in which social forces and structures affect families and how the institution of the family interacts with other social institutions.
5. Explain and analyze how family relations and conditions vary by race and ethnicity, gender, social class, sexuality, and other social positions and identities.
6. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding issues related to families.
7. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their application to families both orally and in writing.
8. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

SOC 220 - Sociology of Deviance:CD

1. Apply major sociological perspectives, theories, and concepts to the analysis of issues related to deviance and social control.
2. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to deviance and social control.
3. Analyze and assess the ways in which people actively construct deviance as well as their responses to it.
4. Analyze and assess the impact of social forces and structures on the creation of deviance and its control.
5. Explain and analyze how race and ethnicity, social class, gender, and other social identities and group relations affect how deviance is created, interpreted, and controlled.
6. Explain and evaluate the ways in which individuals’ social positions and identities shape their attitudes and views regarding issues related to deviance and social control.
7. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.
8. In individual and group projects, communicate an understanding of sociological principles and their applications both orally and in writing.

VISCO 110 - Introduction to Apple Macintosh

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in design.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of design techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of design for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 115 - Web Design I

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed Web design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in Web design.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of Web design techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for Web design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of Web design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of Web design for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 120 - Digital Imaging

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed digital imaging projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in digital imaging.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of digital imaging techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for digital imaging and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of digital imaging projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of design for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 125 - Multimedia Design I

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed multimedia design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in multimedia design.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of multimedia design techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for multimedia design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of multimedia design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of multimedia design for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 135 - Web Design II

1. Reinforce techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed Web design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in Web design.
3. Reinforce production of quality work through the application of a variety of Web design techniques and media.
4. Reinforce knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for Web design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Reinforce constructive critiques of Web design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Reinforce research skills in Web design for presentation and proper documentation of research.

VISCO 145 - Illustration

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed illustration projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in illustration.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of illustration techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for illustration and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of illustration projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of illustration for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 210 - Video Editing

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed video editing projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in video editing.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of video editing techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for video editing and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of video editing projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of video editing for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 215 - Video Production I

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed video production projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in video production.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of video production techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for video production and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of video production projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of video production for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 220 - Video Production II

1. Reinforce techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed video production projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in video production.
3. Reinforce production of quality work through the application of a variety of video production techniques and media.
4. Reinforce knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for video production and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Reinforce constructive critiques of video production projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Reinforce research skills in video production for presentation and proper documentation of research.

VISCO 230 - Multimedia Design II

1. Reinforce techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed multimedia design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in multimedia design.
3. Reinforce production of quality work through the application of a variety of multimedia design techniques and media.
4. Reinforce knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for multimedia design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Reinforce constructive critiques of multimedia design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Reinforce research skills in multimedia design for presentation and proper documentation of research.

VISCO 240 - Typography

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed typography projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in typography.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of typography techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for typography and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of typography projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in the history of typography for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 245 - Production Design

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed motion graphic design projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in motion graphic design.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of motion graphic design techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for motion graphic design and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of motion graphic design projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in motion graphic design for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

VISCO 250 - Design Portfolio

1. Effectively apply techniques and skills of good craftsmanship to completed design portfolio projects and course assignments.
2. Effectively generate, consider and evaluate problems in design portfolio.
3. Produce quality work through the application of a variety of design portfolio techniques and media.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of basic compositional guidelines for design portfolio and apply them effectively to completed course projects and assignments.
5. Give and receive constructive critiques of design portfolio projects created by you and others using language appropriate to the domain and course themes.
6. Demonstrate research skills in design portfolios for presentation and using proper documentation of research.

WOMEN 200 - Introduction to Women’s Studies:CD

1. Apply key concepts and theories from the field of Women’s Studies to a broad spectrum of historical, political, international and social issues.
2. Reason and think critically about gender relations and women’s positions from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives.
3. Analyze and explore relationships between sociopolitical institutions and individual experience.
4. Explore overlapping meanings and constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
5. Compare and contextualize the histories, stories, and current situations of different groups of women, by race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and physical ability.
6. Examine the ways that intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender shape life experience and identity formation.
7. Identify and assess empirical research findings to critically analyze issues related to women’s positions and experiences.
8. Apply knowledge, awareness, and/or skills to identify and analyze issues related to diversity.

WRITE 095 - Writing Skills I

1. Demonstrate the use of critical and analytical thinking.
2. Demonstrate the ability to write and speak clearly in an organized and effective manner.
3. Apply group work strategies efficiently while completing group tasks.
4. Demonstrate improvement in editing and proofreading skills.
5. Recognize and develop effective brainstorming and pre-writing strategies.

WRITE 101 - Writing Skills III

1. Formulate and organize a written response to varying assignments.
2. Adjust their writing approach for appropriate audiences.
3. Check for paragraph unity and coherence.
4. Demonstrate improvement in editing for sentence clarity.
5. Use various reference texts for guidance and information.
6. Demonstrate the ability to respond appropriately to such instructions as discuss, summarize, compare/contrast, describe, explain, analyze.
7. Demonstrate the use of critical and analytical thinking.
8. Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly in written texts and oral speech.
9. Apply group work strategies efficiently while completing group tasks.
10. Apply MLA guidelines for citing sources to avoid plagiarism.

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