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  • 3.50 Credits

    Students will be given experiences at a human service agency to apply the knowledge, values, concepts, and skills of the human service profession. The student will complete 180 hours with a minimum of 12 hours per week under the direct supervision of the agency's personnel. Under direct supervision, students will observe and participate in the basic procedures and routines with the client and the agency system. Emphasis will focus on the student's professional growth in self-awareness, direct service, interpersonal communciation, interviewing skills, and the introduction to the human service delivery system.
  • 3.50 Credits

    Students will be given experiences at a human service agency to apply the knowledge, values, concepts, and skills of the human service profession. The student will complete 180 hours with a minimum of 12 hours per week under the supervision of the agency's personnel. With minimal supervision, students will observe and participate in the basic procedures and routines with the client and the agency system. Emphasis will focus on the student's professional growth in self-awareness, interpersonal communication, interviewing skills, case management, advocacy, crisis management, and community outreach.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides an overview of the human service agency from the management perspective. Organizational theories are discussed. Purposes and functions of management are explored. Components of management, including but not limited to service environment, marketing, program planning, designing, managing, financing, and evaluating are discussed. Attention is focused on current and future trends within delivery systems and their impact on management and administrative policy. Legal and ethical issues are addressed within the context of resource management.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is based upon the premise that the thinking process is a skill that can be examined, improved and is independent of intelligence. Practical thinking tools are presented and practiced using everyday situations and problems. Creative methods of problem solving are also explored. Methods of working effectively in teams are presented and team interaction is an integral part of every class. Throughout this course, students are required to apply the techniques presented to real-life situations.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary course asks students to engage in discussion about historical and contemporary issues in Women and Gender studies. Students will explore how gender intersects with class, race, sexuality, age, and ability within social institutions. The course will examine how androcentric power structures contribute to the oppression of women and marginalized populations, and how these power structures can be challenged through non-binary perspectives and scholarly practices. Through completing this course, students will be prepared to apply the critical tools of Women and Gender Studies to their academic, personal, and occupational lives.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An interdisciplinary humanities and social science course designed to explore in depth a particular set of concepts or a culture. Every course will draw upon a variety of materials, including literary works, academic reports, journalistic accounts, musical pieces, films, paintings and/or sculptures; every course will also examine its topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Where appropriate, travel may be incorporated into the course. The course topic will be selected at the instructor's discretion and may change from semester to semester. Possible topics might include: Italy Past and Present; Violence, War, and Genocide; Social and Economic Justice; Social Critique Through Music; Postmodernism; or Technology and Morality. enroll in semesters featuring the same theme: their transcripts will list the second enrollment as IDS 215.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An interdisciplinary, humanities and social science course designed to explore in depth a particular set of concepts or a culture. Every course will draw upon a variety of materials, including literacy works, academic reports, journalistic accounts, musical pieces, films, paintings and/or sculptures; every course will also examine its topic from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Where appropriate, travel may be incorporated into the course. The course topic will be selected at the instructor's discretion and may change from semester to semester. Possible topics might include: Italy Past and Present; Violence, War, and Genocide; Social and Economic Justice; Social Critque Through Music; Postmodernism; or Technology and Morality.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Provides a forum for discussion, analysis and presentation of research ideas, methods and topics for students who are in the Honors Scholars Program. Students are expected to be working concurrently on an Honors paper/project for another academic course and will present their project at the end of the course. Students will create and present an eportfolio.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The course is designed to prepare students for the ever-changing roles journalists now fill. Most reporters are asked to write, take photos, shoot video, and post items to the Internet on a daily basis. With a focus on good journalistic reporting and storytelling, students will learn how to prepare news, feature, profile and editorial stories for a variety of multimedia formats, including: print and online editions of LCCC's student newspaper "The Paw Print", online blogs, photojournalism, videos, and audio sound bites.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Provides an interdisciplinary forum for students in both tracks of the Honors Scholars Program to discuss two books, one in the social sciences and one in the natural sciences. Intended for Honors Scholars in their final semester.
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