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43 courses with the subject HSS, 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.

HSS 0070Senior Comprehensive Evaluation

Subject: HSS
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Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 111Notes

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Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1110The Art and Science of Human Service Studies/ELR

This course explores the history, values and ethics of the human services profession. Studen

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1150American Sign Language and Deaf Culture I

This course is designed to introduce the basics of American Sign Language (ASL) and to facilitate an essential understanding of Deaf culture. Though perceived by some as simply a disabled population, members of Deaf

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1160American Sign Language and Deaf Culture II

American Sign Language/Deaf Culture II is designed to build on the skills and knowledge of a beginning American Sign Language/Deaf Culture course. Students will add to their introductory kno

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1210Modern Love

This course explores relationships in college, focusing on dating, intimacy, and friendships through the lens of systems theory and intersectionality. Students will examine how individual experiences and identity-such as gender, race, and culture- interact

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1220Bioethics and Social Justice: Navigating Human Dilemmas

This course examines the ethical issues that arise at the intersection of human services, medicine, and society. You will explore dilemmas that affect individuals, families, and communities-including autonomy, consent,

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 130Notes

We are changing this from an experimental course and assigning it a permanent number. Increase awareness of how personal and professional attitudes influence the effectiveness of grief work with children and adolescents. Increase practice skills with children and adolescents experiencing loss with key aims to: • Enable the bereaved to accept the loss; • Provide support and safety; • Help the bereaved recognize the grief process and to reassure them that their feelings; • Enable the bereaved to explore the loss and feelings evoked; • Help the bereaved live without the physical presence of the deceased; • Help the bereaved identify positive strategies in coping; • Help the bereaved access positive support from other in their lives; • Help establish a continuing relationship with the person who has died where appropriate. Powered by SmartCatalog IQ demic Catalog 2025-2026 Graduate Catalog Sexual Harassment Policy and Procedures 2025-2026 Stu s, the lives of adolescents and children, and their roles as professional helpers. The course dent Handbook 2026-2027 Academic Catalog 2026-2027 Graduate Catalog 2026-2027 Student Handbook will cover normal grief reactions in children, ages and developmental stages in response to loss, tasks of grief, communicating with bereaved children, academic issues, behavior, and complicated issues related to traumatic grief.

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 1300Grief and Loss With Children and Adolescents

This course will introduce students to the nature and centrality of the experience of loss and subsequent grief in their personal live

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2110Helpers and the Helping Professions

The concept of Help has been described as “the original human dilemma.” What do we do when we desire to help? Do we listen carefully to those we intend to help so that Someday you may be a coach, teacher, director of a youth program, nurse, social worker for a government agency or an NGO, serve as president of a community bank, a hos

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2120Counseling Individuals and Families

This course examines various theories and methods used in helping families and individua

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2130Working With Groups and Communities

This course examines the interaction of group dynamics and community empowerment to resolve individual and social

Subject: HSS
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Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2140Mental Health Assessment

This course introduces mental health diagnostic, assessment, and treatment planning skills necessary for working within human se

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2410Forever Young? Perspectives on Gerontological Practice

This course critically examines the myth of being "forever young" and its implications for how we understand and approach aging. Through an introduction to the field of gerontology, we’ll explore the biological, psychological, and social changes that occur as p

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2800What the Healthcare?

What the Healthcare? is a play on the What the Health? film raising awareness of systemic issues impacting food consumption. In the What the Healthcare? course we will explor

Subject: HSS
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Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 2850Research Methods in Human Service Studies

Effective human services practice-whether in direct practice, community work, or policy-relies on evidence-based approaches and programs, and the ability to evaluate their impact. This research methods course, grounded in an anti-racist framework, will equip you to c

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3000Wicked Problems & Design Thinking

This course will advance your ability to systematically address wicked problems via equity-centered design thinking practices. We will deepen our understandin

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3110Social Policy and Inequality

Social policies affect both the quality of life of the people who make up our society and the guidelines that determine how human services pr

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3200Group Dynamics and Leadership

This course will focus on leadership in the context of citizenship and the public good. Students will learn theories and concepts related

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3210Eating Disorders

This elective course offers students a comprehensive understanding of the etiology, cultural issues, and the evoluti

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3220Counseling Skills Lab

This course will help students develop their counseling skills and approaches, building on what they learned in HSS 2120 Counseling Individuals and Families . Student

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3260Special Populations In Human Services

This course explores specific populations of human services clients such as persons with disabilities,

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3300Fatherhood

This course focuses on the many issues, societal expectations, joys and challenges that accompany fatherhood. Particular emphasis w

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3310Introduction to Adventure Therapy

This course will introduce students to the skills needed to successfully facilitate therapeutic adventure experiences by exploring the concepts and practices underpinning these approache

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3490Violence in Families

This course explores various forms of violence in families, including violence between spouses/partners, violence directed toward the elderly, violence between

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3500International Human Services

This course examines roles and strategies adopted by human service professionals to address issues affecting the well-bei

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3510Global Violence Against Women

This course will explore violence against women in a global perspective. Students will gain an understanding of the

Subject: HSS
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Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3590Criminal Justice

The field of criminal justice is examined in terms of three interdependent subsystems: l

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3600The Black Family

This course will study the cultural and social dynamics of the African American family both historically and current

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3610Substance Use Disorders: Issues in Treatment

Students will become familiar with contemporary theories and approaches to treating alcohol and other substance use disorder

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3620Dating and Intimate Relationships

This course will examine intimate relationships across the lifespan from an ecological and constructivist lens, examining the intrapersonal, interpersonal, contextual, historical, and temporal influences upon sex, dating, cohabitation, marriage, and dissolution. The

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3670Play Therapy: The Power of Play with Children and Families

This course is an introduction to the use of play as a therapeutic tool for change. Students will learn many of the tech

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3680Childhood and Human Services

This course is about children, their needs, strengths, problems, developmental tasks and successes. Childhood both in a broad historical context, an

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3690Juvenile Justice

This course examines the juvenile justice system, including a number of agencies which have jurisdiction ov

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 37103730 TOPICS IN HUMAN SERVICE STUDIES

Students examine special topics in human service studies, such as developmental disabili

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3980Practicum: Theory and Practice of Human Service Studies

Three weeks of direct practice and observation in a human services organization provide the opport

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 3981Practicum Away: Theory and Practice of Human Service Studies

This course introduces students to the biopsychosocial model of understanding human systems in a cross-cultural environment. Three weeks

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4110Designing and Assessing Human Services Programs

This course helps students understand the special nature and responsibilities of a human services organization. Students will learn how t

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4120Advanced Theory and Interventions

This course examines the complex issues involving cross-cultural service delivery and ca

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4970Senior Seminar

In this capstone course, students analyze their personal and professional development du

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4985Internship in Human Services

The internship in human services provides an opportunity for students to practice the roles, tasks and skills of human service pro

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4986Capstone Academic Field Seminar

While enrolled in HSS 481, students participate in a weekly seminar and complete assignments designed

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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HSS 4999Independent Research in Human Service Studies

Students engage in independent research projects related to the field of human service stu

Subject: HSS
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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