Education-Human Services

How can we be part of creating a more just world? In this course, we'll aim to answer that question for ourselves by examining practices of youth and community engagement through a critical and discerning lens. We'll reflect on our own practice engaging with youth and their communities, examine our roles in those relationships and interactions, explore the complexities and importance of culture, and consider our own cultural influences.

This class is a comprehensive course highlighting issues related to drug use across the spectrum including the latest thinking on prevention and awareness, motivation for drug use, intervention, rehabilitation, and recovery. This course will provide key information regarding specific types of drugs and factors affecting their interactions with the human body.

Examines substance abuse and use in contemporary society. Treats topics from a multi-disciplinary perspective and includes biological, pharmacologic, cultural, social, psychological, political, economic, and legal aspects of substance abuse. Analyzes patterns of addiction, intervention, and rehabilitation with respect to alcoholism and other drugs. Examines assessments of costs, options, and alternatives to addiction, along with educational efforts toward prevention. Class discussions are an integral part of this course. Taught at the graduate level as EDHS 5240.

This course presents the major models of stress, examines psycho-social, intrapsychic, and environmental causes of stress and provides an overview of stress's physiological and psychological impact. Building upon researched-based practice, students will experience and explore cognitive, behavioral, and physiological techniques and strategies so as to manage life's stressors more effectively.

A survey course of human communication, communication disorders, and the clinical professionals who improve the lives of people presenting with a communication disorder (including career opportunities, worksites, responsibilities, and compensation). Lectures contrast scientific understandings with society's perceptions of disordered communication through portrayals in popular culture media.

Objective observation is an essential skill for assessing and treating diverse clients in professional settings. This hands-on, participatory course examines the nature of observation; factors that influence interpretation; and the impact of biases, expectations and observer influence; while watching clinical care. Students will learn to recognize forms of assessment and therapy strategies across a variety of communication disorders.

What do we need to know in order to design effective youth programming and policies that promote the positive development of youth? This course focuses on how theories of development and theories of change inform social innovations that enhance youth thriving, what strategies promote creative problem-solving and innovative solutions for youth programming, and how current social innovations in youth programming address youth challenges.

This course will provide students with a core knowledge base of the organizations, principles and practices that working together are the foundation and informs the practice of Child Protection in Emergencies (CPIE). This course is designed to familiarize students with the principles and normative frameworks of humanitarian responses that shape the CPiE Sector.

This course is designed to teach students to maximize effective mentoring, foster critical thinking, & understand the relationship of theories of masculine identity to the development of middle school age boys. Leadership, respect, authenticity, strength, social systems & their behavioral manifestations will be explored while class members work in a mentoring role with Middle School boys or in another mentoring relationship.

This course is designed for first-year students to assist them in identifying, clarifying, developing and critiquing personal needs and values. Emphasis will be placed on ramifications of personal values, especially in the areas of interpersonal relationships, academics, diversity, goal setting, lifestyle choices, career planning, healthy behaviors, responsibility and commitment in the areas of personal actions, community service and leadership.

This course is an opportunity for students to develop their leadership skills through academic service learning. Students explore the psychological, social, and cultural issues affecting adolescent girls and apply this understanding through service with the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP), a mentoring program pairing middle school girls with college women for a year. Offered on the Undergraduate and Graduate levels.

How do schools serve students with diverse academic and mental health needs? This course will provide an overview of how school mental health professionals: identify students in need of additional academic or mental health support, promote academic and psychological well-being, and assess outcomes. Students will have the opportunity to hear from school professionals currently engaged in this work and apply these skills to their own learning.

This one-hour class is designed to monitor and provide support and supervision for students who work with youth in the community as part of their academic program.

This course examines social and psychological factors contributing to the development of violent behavior in youth, accompanied by an analysis of current prevention approaches. Each topic will include a case study followed by relevant social science research. Students will participate in simulated legislative hearings where they will present oral and written position statements on policy issues such as bullying. media violence, and gun control.

This course presents theories, models and techniques related to enhancing resiliency among marginalized children, adolescents and their families across multiple settings (i.e., home, school, and community). Specifically, it will focus on identifying, understanding, and utilizing protective factors and processes that help vulnerable youth, families, and communities become stronger, more competent, and better functioning in adverse situations.

This course introduces the creative methods and strategies of Designers utilized on real-world issues, in the exciting environment of the School of Architecture. Learned skills include empathy, designing and making process, critical thinking, resilience, stakeholder/project management, and visual communication techniques. The course culminates in a demonstration showcase with opportunities for professional feedback.

This course will leverage design thinking, design pedagogy, and arts-based instruction to develop innovative, project-based programming for a range of informal learning environments (cultural institutions, historic sites, cultural landmarks, etc.). Such project-based models of informal education require collaborations between designers, educators, and programmers in order to engage youth in active and participatory learning.

This course will introduce students to developmental differences in media engagement for younger children, older children and adolescents. Students will learn about media socialization, black racial stereotypes in the media, racial identity, racial socialization and how these variables may influence the identity processes of black adolescents.

This course will provide a broad overview of autism, from historical perspectives to current scientific evidence. Challenges, strengths, and experiences will be examined from within a developmental framework and across developmental domains. Evidence-based approaches to assessment and intervention will be emphasized. The perspectives and lived experiences of individuals with autism and their families will be integrated throughout the course.

This course provides a broad overview of developmental psychopathology (abnormal psychology) - initially focusing on understanding basic concepts, historical context, developmental influences, theoretical perspectives, research methodology, and issues related to classification and assessment - followed by comprehensive information concerning major disorders (e.g., ADHD, major depression, anxiety, ASD, schizophrenia).

The purpose of this course is to increase knowledge and understanding of current definitions of trauma, the impact traumatic events have on human functioning, and what psychological science tells us about how people respond to, and recover from, such events and experiences.

What does it mean to be a student athlete? What roles can race, gender, and class play in the student athlete experience? This course is for any undergraduate student interested in analyzing the complexities of the lived experiences of elite student athletes through a counseling lens.

Should Black athletes just shut up and dribble? Does eligible mean ready? How might we utilize sport to promote the academic, social-emotional, and career development of Black student athletes? We will address these and many other questions about the experience of Black student athletes through synchronous and asynchronous small and large group discussions, individual and research, and conversation with community stakeholders.

This study abroad program allows students to (1) engage in the development of research projects that are related to the speech pathology and audiology major, (2) understand universalities and differences as they apply to speech and language, (3) study cultural and linguistic differences in research (e.g., topics chosen by researchers), educational, and therapeutic practices, and (4) develop skills in international networking.

Academic content and training on various health topics for college students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.