HSER 460 - Cultural Competence for the Human Services Professional

5 Credits

Students will be introduced to diversity and social justice in the context of the human services profession. The course aims to enhance cultural competence by raising students’ awareness of their own values, assumptions, and biases, as well as their relationships and styles of interaction and communication with people from cultures different than their own. The course will address more than just interpersonal competence; we will also focus attention on how to address systemic oppression.

Pre-requisite(s) HSER 101 and ENGL& 101 minimum 2.0 

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - H SER
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Spring Evening

Designed to Serve Students pursuing the BAS Human Services
Active Date 20240322T08:50:23

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 30
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
PLA Eligible Yes

Course Outline

Overview of the cultural competence model
Explore how building cultural competence can serve human services clients more effectively
Past and current impact of social inequities in American society
Strategies to effectively address systemic oppression and social injustice
Practice skills and strategies to be more culturally competent

Student Learning Outcomes
Describe key concepts related to diversity, inclusion, power, privilege, oppression, and social injustice in relationship to current events, personal experience, and community issues

Assess historic and contemporary impact of various social inequities facing people with different identities, including ethnicity, race, gender, religion, ability, and sexual orientation

Formulate culturally responsive strategies to interact with and effectively treat those with different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds

Apply a cultural competence framework to combat systemic oppression and social injustice in given hypothetical human services scenarios