Course Descriptions and Objectives

SHS 118 - Conflict Resolution

1. Identify common causes of interpersonal and systemic conflict.
2. Describe and examine roles and behaviors that increase conflict.
3. Describe ways to manage and measure personal responses to anger.
4. Identify common cross-cultural misunderstandings when working with individuals and families.
5. Develop and describe plans for conflict resolution using evidence-based approaches.

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 122 - Racialized Trauma

1. Assess the effects of multigenerational and historical racial trauma on the everyday life experiences of People of Color.
2. Identify and explainhow inequitable economic options, policing, access to services including healthcare, (mental health, mental illness), oppression and education contribute to racial trauma.
3. Identify psychosocial impact of exposure to racially traumatic experiences.
4. Explore the needed changes in social services delivery and the role service providers play in addressing race-based trauma.

SHS 132 - Introduction to Mental Health Technician

1. Identify best practices for mental health technicians.
2. Identify key interventions used when providing care to vulnerable populations.
3. Analyze the range of practice, ethical expectations, and legaland licensing laws pertaining to the field.
4. Describe the processes used to develop a person-centered relationship and person-centered service.
5. Explore career opportunities and placements in a variety of settings including inpatient units, structured care homes,and other work sites.
6. Develop skills in de-escalation, patient assessment, rehabiltative intervention, documentation, and milieu therapy.

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 - Creative 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 in Social: Human Services

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 for Health, HS and ACD 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 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 - Grant Writing for Nonprofits

1. Explain the process and procedures involved with writing a grant to support a variety of nonprofit 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 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 Counseling for Substance Use Disorders

1. Demonstrate understanding of the specific risks, rewards, and ethical consideration when leading groups.
2. Describe and identify the basic types of groups as well as the stages of group development, group leadership styles and group dynamics.
3. Describe skills involved in forming a group for SUDservices, including the following:selection of members, facilitating goals, planningpsychoeducation groups, and reviewing outcome criteria.
4. Demonstrate knowledge on how to incorporate standardized group curriculums in conjunction with individualized treatment plans and best-practice standards.
5. Describe a leader’s need and ability to adapt clinical interventions and counseling strategies based on individual characteristics of client: special needs, relapse potential, culture, health, and mental status.
6. Demonstrate the skills needed to plan for and lead a SUD psychoeducation group, including the designing of activities, group exercises, introduction, and closure.

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 Diagnosis in Addiction Treatment

1. Describe and demonstrate understanding of the initial assessment process, including SBIRT, screening, assessment, interviewing skills, diagnosis, and person-centered treatment planning.
2. Locate and describe related federal and state laws and behavioral health organization regulations regarding confidentiality, client care standards, documentation of treatment events, progress, and outcomes.
3. Describe the symptoms of addiction according to the DSM 5 and ASAM.
4. Demonstrate ability to determine placement criteria for accurate level of care.
5. Demonstrate the skills necessary to assess client’s readiness for change and to reassess level of motivation throughout treatment.
6. Describe, based on assessed client needs, the ability to provide appropriate referrals for treatment and other services.

SHS 228 - Case Management in Addiction Treatment

1. Prepare person-centered initial service plans, ongoing service plans, and discharge plans.
2. Write behaviorally descriptive clinical notes that accurately reflect patient progress on identified treatment goals.
3. Describe the mandated requirements for addiction record keeping, documentation, treatment reviews, and discharge planning.
4. Explain how behavioral health care coordination works with various funding sources and public agencies.
5. Identify the local Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care (ROSC), and demonstrate how case managers advocate for patients as they navigate through it.

SHS 229 - Addiction Counseling and Relapse Prevention

1. Demonstrate ability to recognize, address, and document behavioral problems in a formal addiction treatment context.
2. Identify components of addiction treatment and continuing care, including recovery planning and relapse prevention.
3. Analyze various addiction treatment models, including evidence based practices, 12-Step approaches, and non-12-Step approaches, and describe their own beliefs and values related to the counseling process.
4. Demonstrate familiarity with criteria for addiction severity and differentiate treatment completion from actual recovery.
5. Explain the process of relapse and demonstrate ability to create stabilizing treatment plan activities.
6. Demonstrate ability to individualize care plans based on client motivation, ambivalence, and co-occurring disorder complications.
7. Explain ethical issues, and appropriate responses, specific to addiction counseling.

SHS 230 - Pre-Practicum

1. Review and demonstrate skills and knowledge learned in earlier classes such as: listening skills, group process, documentation, self-care, 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, and preparing for an interview.
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 - Mental Health Technician Field Practicum

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 249 - Globalization and Social Services: CD

1. Analyze major theories of practice about humanitarian aid,relief work, and international social services.
2. Articulate an understanding of the social service issues and needs impacting immigrants and refugees from around the globe.
3. Articulate an understanding of the international and domestic social-service resources and opportunities available to non-U.S. born peoples.
4. Demonstrate a culturally-sensitive global-perspective to providing social services.
5. Participate in a service-learning project with an agency or program serving individuals who are foreign-born.

SHS 255 - Special Topics: Social and Human Services

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 271 - Addiction Studies Field Practicum

1. Apply discipline skills and abilities learned in classroom to a certified agency treating those with addictions.

2. Identify professional roles and challenges of working as a Chemical Dependency Professional Trainee (CDP-T) and a Chemical Dependency Professional (CDP).

3. Observe and analyze information gained during placement at the certified agency.

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 treatment setting.

6. Demonstrate listening skills that positively enhance relationships in a certified agency treating those with addictions, and show ability to work as part of a professional team.

SHS 272 - Advanced Addiction Studies Field Practicum

1. Apply skills and abilities learned in previous practicum settings and the classroom to a certified agency treating those with addictions.
2. Evaluate professional roles and challenges of working as a Chemical Dependency Professional Trainee (CDP-T) and a Chemical Dependency Professional (CDP).
3. Analyze information gained during placement at the certified agency and apply to future career planning.
4. Assess and evaluate personal thinking as well as the thought process and perspective of others.
5. Demonstrate ability to write clear and well organized reports, treatment plans, and assessments appropriate for the treatment setting.
6. Demonstrate advanced listening skills that positively enhance relationships in a certified agency treating those with addictions, including skills necessary to work as part of a professional team.

SHS 299 - Special Projects: Social and Human Services

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: Social Science

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: Social Science

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 100 - Career and College Success: Visual Communication

1. Demonstrate the use of study skills to comprehend, retain, and apply class content.
2. Identify individual strengths, skills, characteristics, and interests in order to pursue personal, academic, and career goals.
3. Apply appropriate communication skills when engaging with peers, instructors, and college community within a culturally diverse environment.
4. Identify, access, and navigate college resources and experiential learning opportunities for program success.
5. Demonstrate the ability to find credible and contextually-appropriate sources through research and evaluation, and to ethically incorporate those sources into their work.
6. Research the profession within visual communications and report on the opportunities and careers.

VISCO 110 - Apple Computers and Adobe Applications

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 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 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

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 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.

WOMEN 220 - Women of the World

1. Define anthropology and culture.
2. Define women’s studies and feminism.
3. Conduct participant observation and service-learning projects with local community partners.
4. Explain the value of participant observation and service learning as research tools in anthropology and women’s studies.
5. Describe and discuss the significance and impact of women in cultural systems.
6. Describe the impact of women’s lives on the cultural landscapes they inhabit.
7. Reflect orally and in writing on the value of service as a means of making a difference in a community.
8. Explain how societies are interrelated and theimpact of globalization on women’s lives and cultures.
9. Use a culturally relative approach to the exploration of women’s lives in various cultures.

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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