| HMS 146 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Introduction to Gerontology |
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Provides an interdisciplinary look at the aging process
and social environment of older adults. Theories of
aging, as well as physiological and psychological
changes will be explored. Emphasis will be on the
particular needs of the older adult and the resources,
services, and policies to address them.
3 Credit Hours
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| HMS 147 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Eldercare Seminar and Internship |
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Through integrated seminars and hands-on work
experiences in eldercare settings, policies and practices
in eldercare will be explored. Physical, psychological,
social, recreational, and environmental needs
of older people and how well these needs are accommodated
in various care environments will be the
focus of class seminars. A service component of four
hours per week will allow students the opportunity to
mesh theory and practice.
3 Class Hours
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| HMS 240 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Perspectives on Death and Dying |
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Examines individual and cultural beliefs and responses
to death, dying and dying people, and the
social/psychological patterns that surround them.
Hospice care, advanced medical treatment, funeral
customs, suicide, and euthanasia are examples of
topics explored. An understanding of grief and the
grief process is emphasized. Ethical/moral and legal
responses to controversial issues are discussed.
3 Class Hours
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| HMS 250 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Human Service Organizations |
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A basic course in the social psychology of groups and
organizations. Students will learn about the basic concepts
and propositions that provide insight into the
organizational dynamics that confront members of all
types of human service organizations, such as perception
of roles, norms, communication, power, leadership,
and other issues. In addition, students will gain
a heightened understanding of human service organizational
culture issues that are specific to human and
health care services in context of their changing economic,
political, and ecological environments. The
new organizational forms, strategies, and innovations
made by human and health care services to these
changes (at various organizational levels) will be
emphasized.
3 Class Hours
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| HMS 260 |
3 Credit Hours |
| Special Topics on Aging |
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This course is designed to focus on special, current,
and/or topical issues related to te field of gerontology
and working with the elderly. Topics include leisure
and recreational programming for older adults, long
term/nursing home care, community based living
arrangements, physical therapy for the elderly, health
promotion in the elderly, communication/hearing disorders,
aging policies and programs, etc. The purpose
of the course is to allow for topics introduced in other
gerontology courses to be studied in-depth and to
facilitate a state-of-the-art awareness of current
issues/needs of the older person. Some topics will
change from semester to semester.
3 Class Hours
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| HMS 290 |
4 Class Hours |
| Human Service Field Experience |
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A field placement in a health, human service or school
setting, under the supervision of faculty supervisor
and agency personnel. Objectives for each student's
placement are developed in conjunction with the
respective agencies, instructor, and student through a
learning contract. Students will also participate in a
weekly seminar on campus to develop helping-and
relationship-building skills with instructor and other
students. Each student will complete six hours per
week (90 hours/semester).
1 Class Hour, Prerequisite: Six credit hours of
psychology or sociology and concurrent enrollment
in three additional credit hours in psychology.
For Human Services majors.
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