Human Services (HMS)
Distance Learning
Time of Day
Term
- HMS 90 - Coordinated Internship
- Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 93 - Studies In
- Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.Variable hours per week.
1-5 credits - HMS 95 - Topics In
- Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 96 - On-Site Training
- Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 97 - Cooperative Education
- Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 98 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 99 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 100 - Introduction to Human Services
- Introduces human service agencies, roles and careers. Presents an historical perspective of the field as it relates to human services today. Additional topics include values clarification and needs of target populations.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 106 - Working With Death and Dying
- Studies the hospice concept emphasizing the management of providing services associated with terminal illness, while providing human services for the family as well as the patient. Explores the unique role of each member of the hospice care team as to how each assists the patient and family in coping with the effects of the illness. Emphasizes understanding grief and loss. Focuses on the dying person and emphasizes the social and moral aspects of death and dying.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 121 - Basic Counseling Skills I
- Develops skills needed to function in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in attending, listening and responding. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits and goals for skill improvement.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 122 - Basic Counseling Skills II
- Expands the development of counseling skills needed to function effectively in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in responding, personalizing, summarizing and initiating. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits and goals for skill improvement. Develops plans for achieving personal and program goals.Lecture 3 hours per work.
3 credits - HMS 139 - Community Resources and Services
- Studies federal, state, and local agencies, their functions, limitations and interrelationships. Emphasizes purposes of agencies as related to delivery of human services and procedures for referral, team building, and regional cooperation.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 141 - Group Dynamics I
- Examines the stages of group development, group dynamics, the role of the leader in a group, and recognition of the various types of group processes. Discusses models of group dynamics that occur as a result of group membership dynamics.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 142 - Group Dynamics II
- Examines group dynamics, group leadership, group cohesion, transference and group helping through experiential involvement in group facilitating and leadership. Increases group skills through active classroom participation in group experiences.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 145 - Effects of Psychoactive Drugs
- Provides information on the biochemical, physiological, and behavioral aspects of substance addiction and will review the symptoms of addiction. Emphasizes areas of chemical dependency, medical epidemiology, physiological threats of addiction and methods of identifying multiple drug abusers.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 150 - Activities Documentation and Programming
- Introduces the student to the documentation process in long term care which serves as the foundation for developing quality activity programs designed to meet the needs of the clients.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 161 - Professional Skill Development for Human Services
- Teach professional skills necessary to make the transition from the role of MH consumer/client to that of services provider. Will cover confidentiality, professionalism, boundaries and roles, cultural diversity and personal values.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 162 - Communication Skills for Human Services Professionals
- Covers basic written and verbal communication skills, including, listening skills, interviewing techniques, and completing written documentation to professional standards.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 170 - Creativity and Youth Engagement
- Provides a comprehensive overview of relevant theories of creativity that enhance professionals who work with youth workers' abilities to foster the principles of youth development. Through creative tools, promotes an understanding of the effect that youth and adult partnerships have on positive change in communities.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 171 - Advancing Youth Development
- Provides an overview of principles of youth development research and the impact on the youth work field.Lecture 2 - 3 hours. Total Contact 2 -3 hours per week.
2-3 credits - HMS 190 - Coordinated Internship
- Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 193 - Studies In
- Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.Variable hours per week.
1-5 credits - HMS 195 - Topics In
- Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 196 - On-Site Training
- Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 197 - Cooperative Education
- Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 198 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 199 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 220 - Addiction and Prevention
- Examines the impact of drugs and addiction on individuals and their families. Explores the myths about various drugs and their benefit or lack of benefit.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 225 - Functional Family Intervention
- Provides an understanding of functions and dysfunctions within the family. Emphasizes the development of effective skills through an interpersonal/interactional approach to family intervention.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 226 - Helping Across Cultures
- Provides an historical overview of selected cultural and racial groups. Promotes understanding of group differences and the impact on counseling services.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 227 - The Helper As a Change Agent
- Teaches the following skills for implementing alternative models of change and influence: action research, problem- solving, consultation, workshop development, and outreach and advocacy for diverse client populations.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 228 - Productive Problem-Solving
- Develops problem-solving and program-development skills needed to function in helping relationships. Emphasizes skills-training within the classroom and application of the skills in other settings.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 230 - Ethics in Human Services
- Examines ethical concepts specific to human services organizations and careers. Considers self-determination, informed consent, confidentiality, boundaries, conflict of interest, dual relationships, as well as value clarification and the impact of culture.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 231 - Gerontology I
- Examines characteristics of the aging process and problems for the elderly. Considers both theoretical and applied perspectives on the following issues: biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 232 - Gerontology II
- Examines characteristics of the aging process and problems for the elderly. Considers both theoretical and applied perspectives on the following issues: biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 236 - Gerontology
- Examines the process of aging; its implications in relation to health, recreation, education, transportation, meaningful work or activity, and to community resources. Emphasizes experiencing the aging process, facilitating retirement, and application of the helping relationship to work with older adults.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 250 - Principles of Case Management
- Provides an overview of current case management theory and practice in the field of mental health.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 251 - Substance Abuse I
- Provides knowledge, skills, and insight for working in drug and alcohol abuse programs. Emphasizes personal growth and client growth measures in helping relationships. Stresses various methods of individual and group techniques for helping the substance abuser.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 252 - Substance Abuse II
- Expands knowledge and skill in working with the substance abuser. Focuses on assisting substance abusers in individual and group settings and explores client treatment modalities. May provide opportunities for field experience in treatment centers.Lecture 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: HMS 251.3 credits - HMS 258 - Case Management and Substance Abuse
- Focuses on the process for interviewing substance abuse clients. Includes intake, assessment, handling denial, and ending the interview. Teaches skills for writing short-term goals and treatment plans with emphasis on accountability. Examines various reporting devices.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 260 - Substance Abuse Counseling
- Provides an understanding of the skills of guidance of clients and those associated with being an advocate. Examines the dynamics of the client/counselor relationship in developing treatment plans and empowerment skills.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 261 - Human Behavior I
- Develops skills in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities within the socio- cultural context. Emphasizes historical development of various social systems and how these systems affect the whole person. Part I of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 262 - Human Behavior II
- Develops skills in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities within the socio- cultural context. Emphasizes historical development of various social systems and how these systems affect the whole person. Part II of II.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 265 - Personality Theory
- Studies the theories of personality and their relationship to counseling. Emphasis is on the historical perspective, view of human nature, contributions and limitations of each theory.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 266 - Counseling Psychology
- Studies major counseling theories, their contributions and limitations, and the application of each to a counseling interaction. Students develop their own personal counseling theory.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 270 - Treatment Systems
- Examines the services and facilities established for the purpose of treating addictions. Focuses on treatment therapy models and ethical standards related to addiction-disease theory.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 277 - Strategies for Engaging Youth in Innovative Learning and Thinking
- Focuses on applying creativity and innovation theories to youth development environments by human services counselors and workers in the youth development field. Incorporates theoretical content with strategies for application in an experiential setting and covers creative competencies, personal visioning, creative collaboration, creative problem solving, whole brain theory, and exploration of general creativity theory.Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: HMS 1703 credits - HMS 280 - Understanding Serious Mental Illness
- Provides an overview of current information about serious and persistent mental illnesses and their treatment. Includes a particular focus on relapse prevention and recovery.Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 285 - Advanced Client Interviewing
- Develops the advanced skills necessary to interview clients in the social services setting. Emphasizes practical applicationsLecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits - HMS 290 - Coordinated Internship
- Supervises on-the-job training in selected business, industrial or service firms coordinated by the college.Credit/practice ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 293 - Studies In
- Covers new content not covered in existing courses in the discipline. Allows instructor to explore content and instructional methods to assess the course's viability as a permanent offering.Variable hours per week.
1-5 credits - HMS 295 - Topics In
- Provides an opportunity to explore topical areas of interest to or needed by students.May be used also for special honors courses. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 296 - On-Site Training
- Specializes in career orientation and training program without pay in selected businesses and industry, supervised and coordinated by the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 297 - Cooperative Education
- Supervises in on-the-job training for pay in approved business, industrial and service firms, coordinated by the college's cooperative education office. Is applicable to all occupational- technical curricula at the discretion of the college.Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-6 credits - HMS 298 - Seminar and Project
- Requires completion of a project or research report related to the student's occupational objectives and a study of approaches to the selection and pursuit of career opportunities in the field.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
1-5 credits - HMS 299 - Supervised Study
- Assigns problems for independent study incorporating previous instruction and supervised by the instructor.May be repeated for credit. Variable hours.
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