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Apr 24, 2024
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SOC 140 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Course Department: Social Science
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
The basic knowledge and conceptual perspectives for understanding individuals, families, groups, communities, organizations, and cultures will be studied. The course will focus on the interactions between and among human biological, social, psychological, and cultural systems as they affect and are affected by human behavior. Students will gain awareness of individual diversity and the environmental impact of age, race ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or socio-economic of those populations as seen in their future work setting or their personal life.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Appraise the system paradigm for incorporating knowledge, theories, and methodologies for practice with persons of diversity.
2. Synthesize the biological, psychological, and social interactions of individuals.
3. Analyze the interdependence of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
4. Construct the student’s awareness of assessment and intervention strategies with diverse populations.
5. Compare the impact of age, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, gender roles and sexual orientation on the interactions within the environment.
6. Analyze the research methodology for theories and knowledge in the course content.
Course Objectives:
Students will be able to:
1. Practice their understanding of skill assessment of cultural diversity and cultural competence.
2. Integrate research data and critical thinking into their social work practice.
3. Illustrate their understanding in the areas of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination and oppression, and the impact on human behaviors.
4. Distinguish the interrelationships between human behavior and in the realms of biological, psychological, and social processes.
5. Examine one’s own values and beliefs.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of systems theory and social systems theory as it applies to social work.
7. Report human behavior with respect to social and cultural contexts.
8. Examine the theories and concepts that are fundamental to an understanding of human behavior.
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