HS 100 Orientation to Human Services (3)
This course serves as an overview of the historical development of human services and gives an introduction to the philosophical framework, the major theoretical models, and the interdisciplinary nature of human services. Students have the opportunity in this course to explore human service occupations and professional organizations, as well as learn about local and regional community resources. A major component of the course is the opportunity for the students to participate in community service learning projects by filling the requirement of 30 hours of volunteer work.

HS 131 Human Development (3)
This course provides an introduction to various aspects of human development across the life span. Emphasizes developmental processes beginning with conception, continuing through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and later life. Focuses on theoretical issues, developmental tasks, and human diversity.

HS 201 Victimology (3)
This course provides an overview of the history, development, and major issues in the study of persons who are victims/survivors of crime. Using a general social psychological perspective of victimization, specific areas will be discussed, including family violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and homicide. In addition, research data, crime statistics, and demographics will be utilized to enhance students' understanding of victimology.

HS 202 Victim/Survivor Services (3)
This course is an overview of services provided to persons who are victims/survivors of crime. The human service settings we will study include criminal justice, mental health, crisis intervention, faith-based, legal, medical, and the workplace.

HS 210 Introduction to Addictions (3)
This course covers basic information which is prerequisite to the development of competency in the professional treatment of substance abuse, covering a variety of models and theories of addiction and other problems related to substance use. Course content also covers the social, political, economic, and cultural context within which addiction and substance abuse exist, including risk and resiliency factors that characterize individuals and groups and their living environments. Finally, the course covers the behavioral, psychological, physical, social, and spiritual effects of psychoactive substance on the user and significant others. The content is based on the TAP21 Transdisciplinary Foundations titled Understanding Addiction.

HS 211 Addictions Treatment (3)
Course describes the philosophies, practices, policies, and outcomes of the most generally accepted and scientifically supported models of treatment, recovery, relapse prevention, and continuing care for addiction and other substance-related problems. The course provides an emphasis on the importance of family, social networks, and community systems in the treatment and recovery process which includes an interdisciplinary approach to addiction treatment. The practice dimensions of screening, assessment and treatment planning are developed in this course. The course is based on the TAP21 Transdisciplinary Foundation of Treatment Knowledge and the Practice Dimensions of Clinical Evaluation and Treatment Planning.

HS 212 Addiction Services Coordination (3)
This course covers the administrative, clinical, and evaluative activities that bring the client, treatment services, community agencies, and other resources together to focus on issues and needs identified in the treatment plan. Service coordination, which includes case management and client advocacy, establishes a frame-work of action for the client to achieve specified goals. It involves collaboration with the client and significant others, coordination of treatment and referral services, liaison activities with community resources and managed care systems, client advocacy, and ongoing evaluation of treatment progress and client needs. This course is based on the TAP21 Professional Practice Dimensions of Service Coordination, Referral and Documentation.

HS 213 Addiction Counseling Issues I (3)
This course covers knowledge, skills and attitudes which are considered fundamental to the development of competency in the professional treatment of substance use disorders, including diagnostic and placement criteria, treatment modalities, helping strategies, stages of dependence and recovery. This course is based on the TAP21 Transdisciplinary Foundation titled Application to Practice.

HS 214 Addiction Counseling Issues II (3)
This course covers knowledge, skills and attitudes which are considered fundamental to the development of competency in the professional treatment of substance use disorders, including diversity issues, self-awareness, ethical standards of conduct, utilization of clinical supervision, prevention issues and safety policies. This course is based on the TAP21 Transdisciplinary Foundation of Professional Readiness and the Professional Practice Dimension of Professional and Ethical Responsibilities.

HS 215 Addiction Counseling Issues III (3)
Competence in counseling is built upon an understanding of, appreciation of, and ability to appropriately use the contributions of various addiction counseling models as they apply to modalities of care for individuals, groups, families, couples and significant others. Counseling is a collaborative process that facilitates the client's progress toward mutually determined treatment goals and objectives. Counseling includes methods that are sensitive to individual client characteristics and to the influence of significant others, as well as the client's cultural and social context. This course is based on the TAP21 Professional Practice Dimension of Counseling.

HS 220 Introduction to Youth Services (3)
This course is designed to introduce students interested in working with youth to the developmental and socialization influences that effect children. In addition, when one is concerned about children’s development, one must also be concerned with children, families, and communities. This course will provide students the opportunity to become sensitized to the many issues that confront today’s youth and critically look at what is being done. Many current topics will be covered in a survey format and students will investigate one topic in-depth.

HS 221 Community Methods with Children & Youth (3)
This course will address environmental intervention with children and their families. Social networking and ecologically oriented programs will be the focus. Prerequisites: HS 220 or consent.

HS 231 Methods of Long-Term Mental Health Care (3)
This course is designed to cover the skills required by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to qualify as an Adult Care Home Aide. This course will build on the theoretical issues of basic health care, with emphasis on acquiring the skills one must have to care for the health and safety concerns of people in treatment programs.

HS 232 Introduction to Community Mental Health Services (3)
This course is designed to familiarize students with the history and development of community mental health; federal, state and local policies impacting the delivery of community mental health services; and methods utilized in community mental health service delivery such as short-term counseling, crisis intervention, case management, prevention, education, and assessment of need for services.

HS 240 Introduction to Developmental Disabilities (3)
A survey course designed to introduce the student to a philosophy of services for people with developmental disabilities, their rights, legal issues, assessment and planning, overcoming communication deficits and preventative and supportive health measures. Requires practical demonstration of skills at scheduled times outside of class.

HS 241 Applied Behavioral Interventions (3)
A practical application of the principles of operant conditioning to teach new behaviors, minimize/eliminate aberrant behaviors, and increase previously learned behaviors. Requires practical demonstration of skills at scheduled times outside of class.

HS 243 Fundamental American Sign Language (3)
This course is designed to provide students with a basic framework of knowledge regarding the nature of hearing loss and its extremely varied influence on the lives of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, and deaf with a dual diagnosis. Important issues within the field of deafness will be addressed, namely: Deaf culture, education of deaf people, technological advances, and political influences. Emphasis will be placed on learning the fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL) while providing the student with a working vocabulary of approximately 500 signs. The student can expect sign demonstration and practice as well as lecture on various salient topics in deafness.

HS 250 Becoming A Helping Professional (3)
This course is designed to address what it means to become a professional in a field that is devoted to helping people who face critically important problems and issues in their lives. Students are encouraged to consider the knowledge, skills, and education that is expected of people serving in different human service careers. This course will also explore belief systems of effective and ineffective helpers, and discuss the positive and negative effects that a variety of beliefs and assumptions can have on one's professional practice. Values are an integral part of the consumer/helper relationship, and considerable attention will be given to an analysis of how values influence helping. An overview of the stages of helping, with discussion of the skills and knowledge necessary to be a successful helper at each stage, will be presented. Special consideration will be given to understanding and working with diverse populations. Prerequisites: HS 100 and 131.

HS 251 Case Management (3)
This course is designed to enhance students ability to provide case management services. This course will focus on serving children with severe emotional disturbance and adults with mental illness. In addition, students will investigate issues and responsibilities of case managers, community resources, the family support perspective, client advocacy, the strengths approach when working with people, and the fundamental philosophy and applications of wraparound community services. This course will be helpful for those students with the desire to work as case managers, social workers who would like to expand their knowledge of case management in community settings, bachelor level psychology students wanting to work in community mental health, and administrators/supervisors who have the desire to implement case management services within their agencies. Prerequisites: HS 100 and 131, or consent.

HS 260 Directed Study in Human Services (1-3)
In consultation with instructor, the student selects for intensive study a specific area related to human services. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty and Chair. Majors only.

HS 270 Adult Theories in Aging (3)
An overview of the study of aging designed to provide students with an interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process and to explore our society’s response to aging persons. An emphasis is placed on a bio-psycho-social model which considers biological, psychological and social aspects of aging.

HS 271 Aging and Mental Health (3)
An introduction to the mental aspects of aging, this course provides an overview of biological, psychological, and social factors related to mental health in later life. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary team approach to assessment, evaluation and treatment, recognizing the importance of cooperation with older adults and their families when providing for mental health care. Includes a review of relevant theory, research and social policies related to mental health services for the aging in our society. Prerequisites: PY 100, HS 270 or consent.

HS 273 Gerontology Skills and Methods (3)
This course will allow students to build skills for delivering human services to the elderly individuals and groups. Coursework will emphasize interpersonal effectiveness, assessment, interviewing, and documentation. Specific topics will include communications, strengths-based case management, life review, reminiscence, loss, culture and ethical practices. Prerequisites: HS 270 or consent.

HS 280 Internship I (3)
This course is the beginning internship required of all majors in both the Associate and the Baccalaureate degree programs. The internship consists of a minimum of 180 clock hours of experience in an agency in the community under the supervision of staff and university faculty. In addition, a weekly seminar is required to integrate learning in the field with classroom instruction. Emphasis will be given to basic competencies of direct care. Prerequisites: HS 100, 131, at least one course in area of emphasis and consent.

HS 281 Internship II (3)
This course is the second internship course required of all majors in both the Associate and the Baccalaureate degree programs. The internship consists of a minimum of 180 clock hours of experience in an agency in the community under the supervision of staff and university faculty. In addition, a weekly seminar is required to integrate learning in the field with classroom instruction. Emphasis will be given to basic helping relationship skills, communication skills, observation, reporting, recording and assessment. Prerequisites: HS 280, 250, at least two courses in emphasis area, and consent.

HS 290 Special Topics in Human Services (1-3)
Selected topics related to human services, including Advance American Sign Language, are announced in advance. See Schedules of classes for availability

Courses numbered 300-499 are open to students during the semester in which they achieve junior standing only (or, a minimum 54 credit hours), provided they have enrolled in enough lower level courses during that same semester to meet the requirements of junior rank.

HS 300 Prevention in Human Services (3)
This course will examine the role of prevention in human services. An emphasis will be given to alternatives to the current health delivery system with particular attention to how people deal with their own health and approaches toward helping. Discussion will also address community development activities and prevention. This course will provide students the opportunity to enhance oral and written communication skills; practice critical and creative thinking skills; and develop skills in systematic problem analysis and selection of appropriate prevention and intervention strategies. Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent.

HS 302 Social Change&Advocacy in Human Services (3)
This course is designed to familiarize students with community organizing, mobilizing and development. The content of the course will focus on an understanding of social action, change and advocacy in human service practice. Community organizing refers to a particular form of community participation in which “grassroots” people learn techniques to share in power. This implies that the model will focus on recruiting grassroots membership and target systems for change. The methods may include collaborative problem solving, strategic planning and confrontation. Targets for change may be individuals, systems and families. Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent.

HS 306 Legal Policy in Victim Services (3)
This course provides an analysis of legislation and policies regarding victim services. Victim rights, the process of changing attitudes, and current laws and court cases will be a major focus.

HS 307 Family Violence (3)
This course explores the various definitions, intervention approaches, and dynamics of family violence. Specific types of family violence are also discussed. This course is cross-listed with SW390.

HS 310 Human Sexuality (3)
This course will provide students the opportunity to develop a good basic background knowledge of human sexual anatomy, response, behavior, developmental aspects, problems, laws; as well as increase vocabulary in the area of human development, and to describe and identify normal and problematic areas of human sexuality.

HS 313 Drug Abuse and Criminality (3)
This course is designed as an overview of the issues related to drugs and crime. Information will be presented on the many ways in which drug use and criminal behavior are linked. Special emphasis will be placed on treatment and intervention methods currently used to deal with alcohol and other drug problems among offenders.

HS 314 Relapse Prevention Planning (3)
This course is designed as an over-view of the process of recovery from addictive disease, understanding the relapse process, and relapse prevention. Concepts are based on the Center for Applied Sciences (CENAPS) Model of Treatment.

HS 318 HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (3)
HIV/AIDS has become a major epidemic in only twelve years and the link between drug abuse and infection is becoming more apparent everyday. This course is designed to give counselors the skills and understanding necessary to provide effective treatment to those clients who are both chemically dependent and HIV infected. This course focuses on the special issues related to the complications or persons who have HIV/AIDS and are addicted to either alcohol or other drugs. Students have the opportunity to learn skills in two areas related to HIV disease and treatment: (1) Risk reduction techniques to assist alcohol and drug clients in reducing their risk for becoming infected with HIV; and (2) the special treatment needs of persons already infected who are seeking treatment.

HS 320 Youth Service Specialist (6)
This course teaches a variety of techniques for intervention with juvenile offenders. This course is taught at the Topeka Juvenile Correctional Facility (TJCF) where the students have the opportunity to observe TJCF staff interacting with court adjudicated adolescents. Prerequisites: Interview & consent.

HS 321 Youth and Violence (3)
This course is designed to provide an overview of violence and youth, specifically the problems associated with it, including but not limited to such issues as definition, reporting, investigations, causes, treatment, the importance of family preservation and re-integration, institutional abuse, institutional neglect, parent training, parent support, prevention, the role of foster care, SRS, the court system, the schools, etc. The role of the human service worker in preventing and dealing with child abuse and youth violence will be an area of special focus. Child abuse will be viewed as a part of a continuum of personal/family violence.

HS 322 Child Advocacy (3)
An overview of the methods of child advocacy and an individualized program to meet the interests of the student. This course is taught at CASA of Shawnee County and is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to become an effective child advocate in the arena of the student’s choice. Prerequisites: Interview & consent.

HS 325 Group Work in Human Services (3)
This course is designed to pride both knowledge and practice skills in the management and conduct of psycho-educational or other group experience. Students will be provided a variety of techniques and strategies designed to facilitate and direct group learning and psycho-social development. The course will approach the study and experience of group process work from both a developmental and a personal growth perspective.

HS 327 Growing Old in a New Age (3)
This course is cross-listed with AN 327 and SO 327.

HS 330 Theories of Intervention in Human Services (3)
This course focuses on the theories that guide the practice of human services at the individual, family, group, and community levels. The course will give the student an understanding of how different theoretical approaches have influenced the development of human service interventions, such as the family systems approach, the feminist approach, and the cognitive-behavioral approach. Students will evaluate the usefulness of the different theoretical approaches in addressing important human problems. In addition, students will be encouraged to explore their own views about human nature and to understand how these views might influence their delivery of human service interventions. Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent.

HS 331 Working with Dually Diagnosed (3)
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the problems in identifying, diagnosing and treating individuals with dual diagnosis of chemical dependency and mental illnesses such as organic brain syndromes, schizophrenia, affective disorders and personality disorders. Mental illnesses most often associated with chemical dependency will be reviewed. Different philosophies of treatment, community resources and social issues will be covered. The course is deigned to assist practitioners in the mental health and alcoholism treatment field who work with dually diagnosed clients in using more effective assessment and treatment approaches. Prerequisites: HS 210, HS 232, or consent.

HS 360 Directed Study in Human Services (1-3)
In consultation with instructor, the student selects for intensive study a specific area related to human services. Prerequisites: Consent of Faculty and Chair. Majors of junior standing only.

HS 372 Death and Dying (3)
The major goal of this course is to examine death and bereavement across the life span. Issues such as grief and loss; death in the lives of children; and methods for working with the dying and their families will be explored. Cultural differences with respect to rites, customs and immortality will also be examined.

HS 380 Internship III (3)
This is the third required internship course for baccalaureate degree level majors within the Human Services Department. The internship consists of a minimum of 180 clock hours of experience in an agency in the community specific to the student’s area of concentration under the supervision of staff and university faculty; as well as a weekly seminar to integrate learning in the field with classroom instruction. Students will be evaluated related to their mastery of specific competencies in their concentration. Prerequisites: HS 281, 300, 302, junior standing , and consent.

HS 390 Special Topics in Human Services (1-3)
Selected topics related to human services are announced in advance, including Alternative Treatment Methods, Alzheimer’s Disease, Hate and Bias Crime, Eastern Therapies in Intervention, Leadership in Human Services, Women and Addictions, and other topics of interest. See Schedules of classes for availability.

HS 411 Family Issues in Human Services (3)
This course will explore the role that family interaction plays in the various areas of Human Service. Initially the course will review the differing theories of family development and how those theories relate to a variety of issues addressed by professionals in the Human Service field. These theories will include structural functionalism, symbolic interaction, exchange theory, systems theory, and Bowen systems theory. Additionally, the course will look at a variety of issues and how they effect the family. These will include aging family members, dislocation and unemployment, teenage child- bearing, chronic illness, families with special needs children, drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, crime and delinquency, and family response to death.

HS 415 Advanced Methods in Addiction Counseling (3)
This course will focus on alcohol and drug abuse treatment methods such as special skills needed for working with special populations, group techniques, relapse prevention, and non-traditional treatment methods. The course is designed to assist in preparing the student for the student in preparing for Certification as an Addiction Counselor with SRS/SATR. Pre-requisites: HS 210 recommended.

HS 429 Adolescence and Substance Abuse (3)
This course is designed to cover the dynamics of substance abuse for children and youth and the state-of-the-art of prevention and intervention. Special topics of the course will include growth and development, family process, assessment, intervention, treatment, co-dependency, education, cultural factors, at-risk populations, prevention and resources.

HS 445 Legal Ethical and Policy Issues in Human Services (3)
This course examines the social context of policy development and implementation at national, state, and local levels. Laws and ethical issues which impact the delivery of services will be addressed. Prerequisite: Senior standing.

HS 481 Internship IV (3)
This is the fourth required internship course for baccalaureate degree level majors within the Human Services Department. The internship consists of a minimum of 180 clock hours of experience in an agency in the community specific to the student’s area of concentration under the supervision of staff and university faculty; as well as a weekly seminar to integrate learning in the field with classroom instruction. Practice will focus on advanced-level skills specific to the individual area of concentration. Prerequisites: HS 380, 325, 330, upper division level course in emphasis area, and consent.

HS 450/550 Multicultural Issues in Human Services (3)
This course will provide an overview of the major issues in providing human services to the increasingly diverse population of the United States. Themes to be discussed are cross-cultural theories of intervention, communication styles, definitions of suffering and recovery, and working with individuals and groups. The range of human service delivery systems, including mental health, alcohol and substance abuse, youth services, gerontology, and victim/ survivor services, will be addressed from a multicultural perspective. Emphasis will be on exploring provider attitudes and competencies as well as developing practical applications and solutions. Prerequisite: Senior standing.

HS 495/595 Administration & Evaluation of Human Service Programs (3)
This course introduces the techniques of applied research in human services. Proposal writing is presented in its basic form, with applications to seeking funding for human services programs and for applied research. The purposes and techniques of program evaluation are explored, including qualitative and quantitative approaches. Students gain experience with the critical reading of research articles relating to human services. Group projects give students direct experience with applied research, evaluation and proposal writing. Prerequisites: HS 300, 302, and senior standing. Majors only.

HS 498 Senior Human Services Capstone Seminar (2)
Professional preparation for human service majors. Topics include portfolio preparation, exploration of graduate programs, social action, and other concerns of human service professionals. Students prepare a portfolio of selected samples of their work for evaluation by the department faculty. Students seeking Departmental Honors must also complete a special project. The course is designed to provide closure for Human Services majors. The student will have the opportunity to assimilate and synthesize the skills and knowledge acquired during their course of study through their portfolio presentation. Required for all Human Services majors. Pre-requisite: Senior standing. Majors only.