Human Services - Human Services, AS

INDIANA COLLEGE CORE

OTHER INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• IVYT 111 - Student Success CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1
• HUMS 279 - Human Services Capstone Course CREDIT HOURS MIN: 2 [ ] ^

PROGRAM SPECIFIC CORE

• HUMS 101 - Introduction to Human Services CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 102 - Helping Relationship Techniques CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3 [ ]
• HUMS 103 - Interviewing and Assessment CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 155 - Family and Community in Youth Work CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 201 - Internship I CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 202 - Internship II CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 205 - Theories of Behavior Modification CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
• HUMS 206 - Group Process and Skills CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3 [ ]

TOTAL CREDITS: 60

Symbol Key

^ Capstone Course 

* CTL course

!!  Required course to meet the accreditation standards.

[ ]  Not offered in an online format.

DEGREE OUTCOMES

• Understand the historical roots of human services.
• Recognize the factors that lead to the creation of the human services profession.
• Be aware of the historical and current legislation affecting services delivery.
• Be aware of how public and private attitudes influence legislation and the interpretation of policies related to human services.
• Recognize and describe theories of human development.
• Demonstrate skills relative to working in a human services capacity.
• Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of changing family structures and roles.
• Recognize and describe basic awareness of the organizational structures of communities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the capacities, limitations, and resiliency of human systems.
• Apply an awareness and understanding of the context and role of diversity (including, but not limited to ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, learning styles, ability, and socio-economic status) in determining and meeting human needs.
• Recognize the range and characteristics of human services delivery systems and organizations.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major concepts and theoretical perspectives of social sciences.
• Recognize, describe, and apply the major models used to conceptualize and integrate prevention, maintenance, intervention, rehabilitation, and healthy functioning.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and ability to obtain information through interviewing, active listening, consultation with others, library or other research, and the observation of clients and systems.
• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately compile, synthesize, and categorize information.
• Demonstrate the ability to record, organize, and assess the relevance, adequacy, accuracy, and validity of information provided by others.
• Demonstrate the ability to disseminate routine and critical information in a written or oral form to clients, colleagues, or other members of the related services system in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain client confidentiality and appropriately use client data.
• Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to analyze and assess the needs of clients or client groups.
• Demonstrate the skills to develop goals and design and implement a plan of action.
• Demonstrate the skills to evaluate the outcomes of the plan and the impact on the client or client group.
• Describe and apply theory and knowledge bases of prevention, intervention, and maintenance strategies to achieve maximum autonomy and functioning.
• Demonstrate skills to facilitate appropriate direct services and interventions related to specific client or client group goals.
• Demonstrate knowledge and basic skill development appropriate to their level of training in the following areas: case management, intake interviewing, individual counseling, location and use of appropriate resources and referrals, and use of consultation.
• Demonstrate the ability to clarify expectations, deal effectively with conflict, and establish rapport with clients.
• Demonstrate the ability to develop and sustain behaviors that are congruent with the values and ethics of the profession.
• Recognize, understand and apply the National Organization for Human Service’s Ethical Standards for Human Service Professionals as the standards for human service practice.
• Demonstrate the ability to gain self-awareness and to receive feedback in order to decrease the influence of personal biases, values, or personality styles in working with clients.
• Clarify personal values as they relate to professional values.
• Recognize and show awareness of the importance and impact of diversity.
• Satisfactorily complete no less than 250 clock hours of supervised field experience maintaining work and behavior consistent with the ethical standards of the Human Service profession.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze the stages of the family life cycle.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and analyze the child in the family from the family systems approach.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and discuss principles and techniques of culturally sensitive interpersonal skills for working with families.
• Recognize the impact of cultural variations upon the family’s ability to function.
• Describe and reflect upon family strengths model
• Demonstrate ability to identify and analyze models of behavioral change.
• Demonstrate ability to apply and evaluate techniques of behavior modification.
• Define and discuss the meaning of culture and cultural diversity.
• Evaluate the impact of cultural variations on client populations.
• Demonstrate culturally sensitive interpersonal skills.
• Identify and differentiate theoretical perspectives of psychology.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of research methods.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the major theories of personality.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of symptoms, classification, treatment, and causes of psychological disorders.
• Define sociology, sociological concepts, and explain the major theoretical perspectives.
• Describe the principle social research methods.
• Describe the process of socialization.
• Describe and discuss the prenatal, child, adolescent, and adult stages of human development.
• Compare, contrast, and evaluate the major theoretical perspectives as they apply to the stages of development.
• Identify the effects of sociocultural contexts and diversity on human development.

HUMS 109

After

• HUMS 109 - Understanding Diversity CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3