18 courses with the subject HMS, 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.
HMS 100Introduction to Human Services3
Introduces human service agencies, roles and careers. Presents a historical perspective of the field as it relates to human services today. Additional topics include values clarification and needs of target populations.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 106Working with Death and Dying3
Studies the hospice concept emphasizing the management of providing services associated with terminal illness, while providing human services for the family as well as the patient. Explores the unique role of each member of the hospice care team as to how each assists the patient and family in coping with the effects of the illness. Emphasizes understanding grief and loss. Focuses on the dying person and emphasizes the social and moral aspects of dying.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 121Basic Counseling Skills3
Develops skills needed to function in a helping relationship. Emphasizes skills in attending, listening, and responding. Clarifies personal skill strengths, deficits, and goals for skill improvement.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 139Community Resources and Services3
Studies federal, state, and local agencies, their functions, limitations and interrelationships. Emphasizes purposes of agencies as related to delivery of human services and procedures for referral, team building, and regional cooperation.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 141Group Dynamics I3
Examines the stages of group development, group dynamics, the role of the leader in a group, and recognition of the various types of group processes. Discusses models of group dynamics that occur as a result of group membership dynamics.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 161Professional Skill Development for Human Services3
Teaches professional skills necessary to make the transition from the role of MH consumer/client to that of services provider. Will cover confidentiality, professionalism, boundaries and roles, cultural diversity and personal values. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 162Communication Skills for Human Services Professionals3
Covers basic written and verbal communication skills, including listening skills, interviewing techniques, and completing written documentation to professional standards.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 170Creativity and Youth Engagement3
Provides a comprehensive overview of relevant theories of creativity that enhance youth workers’ abilities to foster the principles of youth development. Through creative tools, promotes an understanding of the effect that youth and adult partnerships have on positive change in communities.
Student must be eligible for ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 226Helping Across Cultures3
Provides a historical overview of selected cultural and racial groups. Promotes understanding of group differences and the impact on counseling services.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 228Productive Problem-Solving3
Develops problem-solving and program-development skills needed to function in helping relationships. Emphasizes skills training within the classroom and application of the skills in other settings.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 230Ethics in Human Services3
Examines ethical concepts specific to human services organizations and careers. Considers self-determination, informed consent, confidentiality, boundaries, conflict of interest, dual relationships, as well as value clarification and the impact of culture.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 231Gerontology I3
Examines characteristics of the aging process and problems for the elderly. Considers both theoretical and applied perspectives on the following issues: biological, psychological, sociological, economic and political.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week.
HMS 251Substance Use Treatment I3
Expands knowledge and skill in working with individuals with substance use disorder. Focuses on assisting people with substance use disorder in individual and group settings and explores client treatment modalities. May provide opportunities for field experience in treatment centers.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 258Case Management and Substance Abuse3
Focuses on the process for interviewing substance abuse clients. Includes intake, assessment, handling denial, and ending the interview. Teaches skills for writing short-term goals and treatment plans with emphasis on accountability. Examines various reporting devices.
ENG 111 or ENG 111 / EDE 11 eligible. Lecture: 3 hours per week
HMS 277Strategies for Engaging Youth in Innovative Learning and Thinking3
Focuses on applying creativity and innovation theories to youth development environments by human services counselors and workers in the youth development field. Incorporates theoretical content with strategies for application in an experiential setting and covers creative competencies, personal visioning, creative collaboration, creative problem solving, whole brain theory, and exploration of general creativity theory.
Supervised observation at selected social service agencies, human services centers, or rehabilitation programs/ institutions. Program is coordinated by the college. Credit/work ratio not to exceed 1:5 hours. May be repeated for credit.
