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Course Syllabus

SW 2100 Understanding Human Behavior and the Social Environment

  • Division: Social and Behavioral Science
  • Department: Behavioral Science
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: None
  • Corequisites: None
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  • Semester Approved: Spring 2024
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2029
  • End Semester: Fall 2029
  • Optimum Class Size: 40
  • Maximum Class Size: 40

Course Description

This course will provide students with a social work perspective on human behavior and the social environment. Students will study biological, psychological, and social development through a chronological life span approach.

Justification

This course is part of the Social Work curriculum at Snow College, and similar courses exist for Social Work programs throughout other USHE institutions.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Evaluate contemporary and/or historical problems using social science and Social Work specific research methodology.
  2. Describe and analytically compare Social Work's different social, political, economic, cultural, geographical, or historical settings and processes.
  3. Develop and communicate hypothetical explanations for individual human behavior within the large-scale historical or social context as it relates to Social Work.
  4. Write and/or demonstrate effectively within social science and the Social Work discipline, using correct disciplinary guidelines, to analyze, interpret, and communicate about social science phenomena.

Course Content

Students are introduced to the Biological-Psychological-Sociological perspective of human behavior using the person-in- the-environment perspective (Systems theory).Topics discussed include: issues of family life, racism, young adulthood, middle age, old age, death and dying, the grieving process, child development, etc.