Courses

This course provides a comprehensive survey of human service theories and applications, focusing on diverse consumer populations in a wide range of settings. Students will examine significant historical developments, legal and compliance issues, and ethics in the human services field. This course also addresses the complex interactions between human services professionals and consumers and examines systems theory approaches to resolve issues commonly encountered by human services professionals. (3 units)

This course uses a multidisciplinary approach to study the role of ethical and moral principles within the field of human services. The course will also examine legal issues, such as professional boundaries, confidentiality, informed consent, and conflicts of interest. This course also emphasizes the knowledge of relevant ethical codes in the human services field. (3 units)

This course examines the importance of ensuring sustainable funding as a necessary skill for administrators of human service organizations. This course presents a number of ways to ensure funding from public and private sources. Areas of emphasis include researching public policy, industry trends, and grant writing that incorporates legal and ethical considerations. This course includes the completion of a brief grant proposal. (3 units)

This course introduces students to social policies and programs designed to effect positive change in the quality of people’s lives. Students learn about the cycle of policy development, implementation, and evaluation. This course emphasizes how social policies affect the direct practice of human service professionals and the role of advocacy and coalition building in influencing social action. The course also highlights the role of the human service professional in impacting the legislation that governs society. (3 units)

This is an introductory, graduate level public health program planning, development, and evaluation course that broadly addresses program planning models, process of program development and methods of evaluation in the area of public health. This course will be focused on the following three areas: (1) study of program planning models, (2) process of program development, and (3) methods of evaluation in public health settings. (3 Units)

This course provides an introduction to research methods that examines two major approaches in research paradigms. The course will study in depth different types of quantitative research designs such as experimental, quasi-experimental, and descriptive approaches and students will initiate a research project that investigates behavior, knowledge, or attitude factors that help students to understand the complexity of behavior change through the use of qualitative and quantitative data. (3 Units)

Leaders in government agencies and nonprofit organizations are challenged to lead their organizations toward solutions to complex problems. This course examines administrative leadership theories and concepts from a variety of perspectives and administrative settings. (3 Units)

Examination of the effects of therapeutic interventions on culturally distinct populations. (3 Units)

A study of the developmental cycle of the human organism from a cognitive, psychological, sociological, and moral perspective. Emphasis is placed on theories and research related to child development. (3 Units)

This course introduces the student to the contemporary context of community mental health settings. Course content emphasizes recovery-oriented treatment for severe mental illness, disaster and trauma response, services for victims of abuse, the homeless, foster care services, case management, client advocacy, in-home and in-school services, bilingual client services, professional collaboration and medical family therapy. This is an elective course for which students wishing to pursue licensure as a Professional Clinical Counselor in the State of California should register. (3 Units)