SOC 3850 - Human Services

Credit(s) 3

This course offers students an opportunity to see and connect sociological ideas and concepts to domains of human services work in vital and constructive ways. Understanding the social skills practiced in human services will allow students to collaborate effectively with others and offers ways for students to figure out how to be a more confident and competent human services professional. For those students planning to go directly into a human services profession, this knowledge will result in more positive outcomes for individuals, families, children, and communities. This course provides multiple opportunities to practice using sociology concepts and theories, contemporary child welfare and similar data, and research publications and students will have the chance to learn how to use social science data to evoke powerful discussions about family, child, and community needs and the possibility of social change. These opportunities will be filtered through a multi-part assessment project designed to be completed in progressive stages throughout the duration of the course. After completing this course, students will have achieved the following objectives: (1.) communicate the complexity of the human experience and the ways in which human services impact communities; (2.) contrast different types of human services and the organizations which provide them along with their cultural purpose and social functions; (3.) recognize the sociological value of human services organizations as an extension of human caring and care work and articulate a sociological perspective on human services and their cultural necessity; (4.) conduct an organizational analysis within a rural Appalachian context for community-based human services; and (5.) describe how to use course information as a foundation for continued learning about human behavior in the social environment in response to social problems and community-based concerns.

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SOC 3850 - Human Services