HS Professionals & Interpersonal
Systems: HSP 303
Instructor: Dr. Trula Nicholas
Course Description {for more info}:
Investigates interpersonal systems in relation to other systems, with an emphasis on communication models and professional strategies.
Course Description {for more info}:
Investigates interpersonal systems in relation to other systems, with an emphasis on communication models and professional strategies.
Learning Outcomes
• Assess what constitutes
effective interpersonal communication and its significance to smaller and
larger groups and systems.
• Apply course concepts illustrating their relationship in human services including values, attitudes, and personal dispositions that promote understanding and application in practice.
• Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy interpersonal systems.
• Analyze how professional dyad/triadic relationships develop within the context of smaller and larger systems.
• Apply course concepts illustrating their relationship in human services including values, attitudes, and personal dispositions that promote understanding and application in practice.
• Compare and contrast healthy and unhealthy interpersonal systems.
• Analyze how professional dyad/triadic relationships develop within the context of smaller and larger systems.
Assignments
Healthy Partnership
Guidelines
Each dyad/triad will develop a set of guidelines that will help to ensure a healthy partnership throughout the quarter.
Dyad/Triad Projects
Each dyad/triad will engage in two separate projects during the quarter. One is related to interviewing a community partner and the other will focus on researching and presenting on a topic of your choosing.
Homework
Several times throughout the quarter you will be given homework assignments. These assignments will relate directly to the readings you will be doing for the following week and/or the discussions we are engaged in during the class sessions.
Final Reflection Paper
Near the end of the quarter each student will write a final reflection that addresses the learning outcomes for this course. You will include information from your readings, class discussions, and your experiences with your dyad/triad partner.
Each dyad/triad will develop a set of guidelines that will help to ensure a healthy partnership throughout the quarter.
Dyad/Triad Projects
Each dyad/triad will engage in two separate projects during the quarter. One is related to interviewing a community partner and the other will focus on researching and presenting on a topic of your choosing.
Homework
Several times throughout the quarter you will be given homework assignments. These assignments will relate directly to the readings you will be doing for the following week and/or the discussions we are engaged in during the class sessions.
Final Reflection Paper
Near the end of the quarter each student will write a final reflection that addresses the learning outcomes for this course. You will include information from your readings, class discussions, and your experiences with your dyad/triad partner.
Course Alignment with CSHSE National Standards
The standards below are taken from the National Standards of the Council for Standards in Human Service Education {for more info}. Standards are met in more than one course, but specifications may be met in only one course. Below are the specifications that have been designated for inclusion in this course.
#12 - The curriculum shall include knowledge and theory of human systems, including individual, interpersonal, group, family, organizational, community, and societal and their interactions.
#13 - The curriculum shall address the conditions that promote or limit human functioning.
#17 - Learning experiences shall be provided for the student to develop his or her interpersonal skills.
#19 - The curriculum shall incorporate human services values and attitudes and promote understanding of human services ethics and their application in practice.
#20 - The program shall provide experiences and support to enable students to develop awareness of their own values, personalities, reaction patterns, interpersonal styles, and limitations.
#12 - The curriculum shall include knowledge and theory of human systems, including individual, interpersonal, group, family, organizational, community, and societal and their interactions.
#13 - The curriculum shall address the conditions that promote or limit human functioning.
#17 - Learning experiences shall be provided for the student to develop his or her interpersonal skills.
#19 - The curriculum shall incorporate human services values and attitudes and promote understanding of human services ethics and their application in practice.
#20 - The program shall provide experiences and support to enable students to develop awareness of their own values, personalities, reaction patterns, interpersonal styles, and limitations.