CUNY Stella and Charles Guttman Community College · Courses
HSVC
8 courses with the subject HSVC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HSVC 103(, Hours: 3)3
Introduction to Human Services This course introduces students to the role of human service professionals working in an urban environment. Students will learn about the historical context that led to the development of the various human service professions, with an emphasis on New York City. Other topics to be discussed include the value, knowledge, and skill base of the helping professions, the helping relationship and the helping process, culturally competent work, and issues of social justice. Emphasis will be placed on the relationships between social welfare policy, human need, and the provision of human services. A research assignment will give students an opportunity to explore a specific field of practice within the urban environment. Pre/Co-requisites: None
Methods of Intervention for Human Services This course builds on an ecological systems perspective and is grounded in the identification, analysis, and implementation of evidence-based intervention strategies to work with individuals, families, groups, and communities in urban human services agencies and organizations. Students acquire the foundational skills needed to engage and communicate effectively with clients in a variety of human services settings. Generalist skills for the beginning, middle, and ending phases of intervention are introduced. Attention is paid to culturally informed practice.
Fieldwork and Integrative Seminar I Students in this course complete the equivalent of 125 required internship hours in a variety of human services settings. Students learn about agency structure and function, the activities of health and human service professionals, and the application of health and human service skills. A weekly integrative class session advances student understanding of the world of health and human service work in urban communities.
Fieldwork and Integrative Seminar II This course is a continuation of Field Work I. Students complete the equivalent of 125 required internship hours in a variety of human services settings. Students learn about agency structure and function, the activities of health and human service professionals, and the application of health and human service skills. This course advances student understanding of the world of health and human service work in urban communities.
Special Topics in Fields of Practice Students are required to complete SPARC training before participating in any internship course. Training must be completed within the same academic year as, and prior to, the internship course. This course provides an in-depth exploration of a particular urban field of practice within the human services. The historical development of the field of practice, the social welfare policies supporting and challenging it, and the role of human service professionals in developing the field of practice and in working in it today will be COLLEGE BULLETIN 2025-2026 114
Health and Human Services Policy This course is Writing Intensive. This course traces current health and human service programs and policies from their historical origins and provides an overview of the process of policy development, implementation and analysis. Students develop an understanding of the connections between social problems faced by the diverse residents of New York City communities, their varying causative explanations, and the health care and human services policies that are intended to address those problems. The course examines how policies are shaped within the context of the political process. Federal, state, and local programs, such as TANF, Medicare and Medicaid, and Social Security are explored in the context of the problems they address and the impact they have on the populations served - all from the very important perspective of the human service provider. Pre or Co-requisites: HSVC 103; GOVT 202
Introduction to Disability Studies This course provides a multidisciplinary overview of disability and an introduction to the emerging field of disability studies, fostering a new understanding of disability in contemporary culture. Students will explore the phenomenon of disability from a variety of perspectives, including historical medical constructs and the emerging social model of disability, discrimination, stigma, and segregation, disability and family life, social welfare policy and service systems, and the links between disability and media and the arts.
