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COURSE SYLLABUS
1. TITLE OF COURSE: Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
PREFIX/NUMBER: SWK 202 CREDIT HOURS: 3
2. PREREQUISITE: SWK 201
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:
TEXT: TBA
SUPPLIES:
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Focus in this course is on an understanding and analysis of larger social systems which include the family, groups, communities and organizations. Emphasis is on social systems as an organizing theoretical framework for understanding social functioning and change.
5. COURSE GOAL:
The course is designed to:
I. Promote student application of critical thinking skills based on theoretical knowledge.
II. Allow opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge of the values and ethics of the social work profession
III. Advocate generalist practice skills from a person-in-environment strengths perspective in work with diverse populations of various sizes, with emphasis on rural populations.
IV. Enhance student comprehension of culturally competent practice with diverse populations, with emphasis on Chicanos/Chicanas and First Nations peoples represented in the Southwestern United States
V. Develop student understanding the history of the social work profession and the social welfare system.
VI. Promote integrated knowledge of biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual factors that impact the development and behaviors of individuals and groups of various sizes.
VII. Develop student skills in assessing needs, referring client systems of all sizes to appropriate resources, and/or developing needed resources.
VIII. Instruct students in choosing and using effective communication skills appropriate to diverse populations of various sizes in numerous settings.
IX. Promote student understanding the forms of oppression.
X. Advance appropriate use of professional knowledge, values and skills to effect change with individuals, groups, organizations, communities and the larger society.
6. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the course, students will:
I. Demonstrate a basic knowledge of general systems theory.
II. Examine the relationship between peoples’ behaviors and the environmental factors influencing that behavior.
III. Learn communication theory and its application.
IV. Name the key terms used in social systems theory.
V. Define the ecological perspective and apply it to social work interventions at the Micro, Mezzo and Macro levels.
VI. Identify and apply systems concepts as they relate to casework in the human services field.
7. COURSE OUTLINE
I. Human Behavior in Systems
A. The ecosystems perspective
B. Forms of diversity
C. Transactions
D. Oppression
E. Feminism and Patriarchy
II. The Family
A. Families as systems
B. Functions of the family
C. The family as an emotional system
D. Changing family roles
1. Beginning
2. Infant
3. Preschool
4. School-age
5. Adolescent
6. Launching
7. Post-parental
8. Aging
E. Non-developmental crisis
F. Family problems and violence
G. Family diversity
H. Implications for Social Work Practice
III. Groups
A. Social Structure of Groups
1. Formed and Natural
2. Group Membership
3. Stages of Group Development
B. Group Norms
C. Group Cohesion
D. Group Goals
E. Leadership and Power
1. Styles of leadership
2. Referent power
3. Legitimate power
4. Coercive power
5. Reward power
6. Expert power
F. Working in a multi-cultural context
G. Social Work practice implications
IV. Organizations
A. The meaning of social welfare organizations
B. Organizations as systems
C. Goals of organizations
1. Official and Operative
2. Definition of goals
3. Effects of goals on service delivery
D. The nature of organizations
E. Conflict and control in organizations
F. Communication in organizations
1. Upward communication
2. Horizontal communication
G. Inter-organizational dependence
H. Social work implications
V. Communities
A. Definition of community
B. The concept of community
C. The functions of a community
D. Community linkages
E. Community as a system
F. Types of communities
1. Racial and ethnic communities
2. Gay and lesbian communities
G. Implications for social work practice
8. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
To be successful in this course, students are expected to participate in discussions, readings, in-class writing, and peer review activities. The instructor may assign point values to such activities.
9. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
10. ADA NOTICE:
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