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2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HUMS 207 - Program Planning and Policy Issues
PREREQUISITES: HUMS 101 - Introduction to Human Services and HUMS 102 - Helping Relationship Techniques .
PROGRAM: Human Services
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
LECTURE HOURS MIN: 3
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Fall, 2014
Concentrates on the components of administration of human service agencies. Addresses practitioner skills needed by an administrator or supervisor. Discusses social policy and its impact on human services.
MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be expected to:
- Discuss social problems and social welfare policy.
- Identify traditional providers of social welfare.
- Describe and analyze the history of social welfare in the United States.
- Recognize the impact of historical evolution of social welfare on discrimination and social stigma in society.
- Examine the issue of poverty in the United States.
- Apply a variety of policy analysis concepts to current social welfare programs in the United States.
- Differentiate the major public healthcare programs.
- Identify the characteristics of a nonprofit organization.
- Describe the elements of the strategic planning process
- Develop an understanding of budgeting in a non-profit agency
- Discuss motivation and utilization of a volunteer workforce.
- Identify and discuss effective forms of leadership.
COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -
- Institutional perspectives on the study of social welfare policy
- Evolving institutions and the welfare state
- Analytic perspectives on the study of social welfare policy
- Policy analysis and its relationship to service practitioners
- Emerging issues in social welfare
- The modern welfare state
- The system of transfer of finance
- The process of policy formation
GRADING POLICY
| 93-100 |
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| 83-92 |
= B |
| 75-82 |
= C |
| 70-74 |
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| 0-69 |
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Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)
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