Child
and Family Studies
CFS
103 (3) Introduction to Family and Community Services
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Agencies, organizations, funding, and legislative bodies. Dynamics
of agency interactions as they relate to the well-being of children,
families, and communities. Limited fieldwork.
CFS
202 (3) The Development of the Young Child in the Family
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Principles of child development. Need for favorable conditions
of nurture. Extrafamilial and interfamilial relationships as they
influence child growth. Fieldwork or equivalent required.
CFS
255 (4) Interpersonal Dynamics in Human Development
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Interpersonal problem-solving skills. Helping theories appropriate
to human development settings. Skills and behaviors that apply
theory to practice setting. Fieldwork required.
CFS
332 (4) Foundations and Principals of Early Childhood Education
Instructor: Mark Whitney
Course Description:
Includes practicum in preschool setting. Developmentally appropriate
and integrated learning experiences.
CFS
493 (6) Family Practicum
Instructor: Anna Babic
Course Description:
Seminar and supervised internship addressing concepts directly
related to career goals. For Family Development majors only.
CFS
495 (3) Child and Family Seminar
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Offered fall and spring semesters. Opportunities for upper-division
students to apply their knowledge bases to economic, political,
and social issues that impinge on how children and families can
be expected to function in the larger society.
CFS
672 (3) Couple Therapy: Theory and Techniques
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
The couple relationship and ways to facilitate it. Psychodynamic,
behavioral, and systems approaches. Non-marital, marital, and
divorcing couples. For students in Marriage and Family Therapy
program. Each student performs 12 hrs. of couple therapy w/ one
couple.
CFS
760 (1) Practicum in Marriage and Family Therapy
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Supervised clinical experience. A total of five credits required.
For students in Marriage and Family Therapy programs. Students
are placed in local agencies to do marital and family therapy
- 8 hrs. per week per student.
CFS
862 (3) Family Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Instructor: Linda Stone
Fish
Course Description:
Assessment, diagnosis, and family treatment of childhood and adolescent
dysfunction. Interaction between child and family systems. Students
required to do a special project in the community.
Environmental
Design (Interior)
EDI
347 (3) Historic Buildings: Studio
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Projects in historic preservation and adaptive use. Environmental
Practicum.
Nutrition
and Food Service Management
NFM
340 (3) Nutrition in the Life Span
Instructor: TBA
Course Description:
Human nutritional needs related to health promotion and prevention
of disease through the life cycle. Factors influencing nutritional
status and requirements during various stages are emphasized.
NFM
371 (1) Clinical Dietetics Experience I
Instructor: Kay Stearns
Bruening
Course Description:
Clinical experience related to nutritional needs throughout the
life cycle. Students participate in meal enhancement program at
local hospital. Restricted to Coordinated Dietetics Program students
only.
NFM
455 (3) Community Nutrition
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
National, state, and local programs designed to meet food, nutrition,
and health needs of vulnerable groups. Roles and functions of
nutritionists in the community. Prereq: NFM 225, 340. Coreq: NFM
326.
NFM
514 (4) Nutrition Education and Counseling
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
Provides a theoretical basis for education and counseling related
to nutrition and incorporates opportunities to develop education
and counseling skills for a wide variety of audiences and individuals.
Prereq: NFM 225, 326, 340, 455. Only Jr. Sr, Grad. Consent required.
Nursing
NUR
119 (4) Career Development in Nursing
Instructor:
Mary Ann Middlemiss
Course Description:
Preparation for transition to a new career. Fosters empowerment
as a person, learner, and professional nurse. Provides a foundation
for nursing relationships. Seminar and community experiences included.
Transfer or second degree student status.
*NUR
123 (3) Health Promotion in Nursing
Instructor:
Mamie Hensel
Course Description:
Growth and development across the life span. Nursing role in health
promotion and illness prevention. Community experiences included.
Prereq: NUR 121, transfer or second degree student status.
*NUR
312 (6) Practice-Based Nursing III
Instructor:
Mary Ann Middlemiss
Course Description:
Theoretical and clinical nursing experiences focus on planning,
implementing, and evaluating nursing care with adults and children
experiencing complex alterations in health. Laboratory and seminar
included. Prereq: Completion of 200-level nursing courses and
8 credits of anatomy and physiology.
Administration
NAD
658 (3) Practicum in Management of Clinical Nursing
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Synthesis, application, and evaluation of management theories,
concepts, and skills in a mid-level managerial role. Preceptorship
with a skilled nursing manager in a practicum setting.
Nutrition
& Hospitality Management
NFM
340 (3) Nutrition in the Life Span
Instructor: TBA
Course Description:
Human nutritional needs related to health promotion and prevention
of disease through the life cycle. Factors influencing nutritional
status and requirements during various stages are emphasized.
NFM
371 (1) Community Nutrition Experience
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
The experiences and learning gained from this course provide a
foundation for the supervised practice rotation in Community Dietetics
taken during the senior year in the Coordinated Dietetics program.
At the end of the course, students will be able to refer patients/clients
experiencing food insecurity to appropriate community agencies
for assistance.
Pre-requisites: Admitted
to the Coordinated Dietetics Program, take concurrently with NHM
455 Community Nation.
NFM
372 (1) Dietetics Experience I: Preclinical and Administrative
Experience
Instructor: Kay Stearns
Bruening
Course Description:
Supervised practice course for students in the Coordinated Dietetics
program. Students complete service activities related to customer
satisfaction, food service and safety, and quality improvement.
During the second half of the semester, students assist nutrition
staff in nutrition assessment of patients.
NFM
455/655 (3) Community Nutrition
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
Analysis of government role in meeting food and nutrition needs
in selected populations. Relationship of public health and welfare
policy to nutritional status. Community assessment and program
evaluation.
NFM
511 (3) Nutrition Education
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
A theoretical basis for education and opportunities to develop
skills for a wide variety of individuals.
Prereq: NFM 225, 340,
and an e-mail account (and ideally 326)
NFM
512 (3) Nutrition Counseling
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
This class will enhance your effectiveness as a nutrition counselor
by exploring several theoretical frameworks, and providing opportunities
for you to develop your interpersonal communication, critical
thinking, attending and behavioral change facilitation competencies.
Pre-requisites: NHM
225, 226, 340, 455 (ideally NHM 445, 548) and an e-mail account.
NFM
600 (3) Advanced Community
Instructor: Tanya M.
Horacek
Course Description:
This is a service learning course, in that we will have produced
a product for a business in the community by the end of the class.
As a team, we will apply the steps of Precede Proceed to do a
feasibility study for a worksite wellness program for a community
organization.
Pre-requisites: NHM
455/655 (Community Nutrition helpful but not necessary).
Social
Work
Social Work: Service
to the community is one of the main objectives of the profession
of social work and is indirectly, if not directly, addressed in
most social work courses. At both the undergraduate and graduate
levels, social work students must take field practica through
which they engage in direct service to the community. In addition,
all social work majors at the undergraduate level are required
to complete 45 hours of community service prior to Junior year.
Courses below are open
only to matriculated social work students..
SWK
401 (3) Strategies of Social Work Intervention I
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Design, implementation, and evaluation of intervention strategies
in social work practice. Intervention with individuals, families
and groups in the context of organizations and communities. Concurrent
field placement.
SWK
435 (3) Field Practicum I
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Practice in selected social service agencies to apply and integrate
skill, cognitive and affective learning within a service system.
SWK
402 (3) Strategies of Social Work Intervention II
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Continuation of SWK 401
SWK
445 (5) Field Practicum II
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Continuation of SWK 435
SWK
601 and SWK602 (3 each) Fundamentals of Social Work Practice
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Preparation for beginning social work interventions. Theories
of practice and rehearsal of problem solving and communication
skills with individual, families and groups in client, target
and action systems and within organizations and communities.
SWK
671 (3) Field Instruction I and SWK 672(3) Field Instruction II
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Supervised practice experience to apply knowledge, social work
principles, values and methods and to obtain increasing competence
and skill for professional practice.
SWK
771 (3) Field Instruction III
SWK
772 (3) Field Instruction IV
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Progressively advanced supervised practice experience in conjunction
with additional intervention subjects in direct practice with
individuals, families, or groups or community organization, policy
planning or administration with agencies and communities.
College of Human Services and Health
Professions