HMSV 2120 - Social Services Policy and Exceptional Populations

4.5 Credits

Students examine social policy development. The examination focuses on historical factors, value assumptions, and social, political, and economic contexts. Social issues in the field of human services will be explored and related to social policy. This course will define, examine and identify exceptionalities, as well as the social policies and legalities implemented.

Prerequisites: (1) HMSV 1010

Lecture Hours: 4.5
Lab Hours: 0.0
Internship Hours: 0.0
Clinical or Practicum Hours: 0.0

Course Objectives

State the historical precedents to current social services policies in general and how they relate to exceptionalities.
Explain and evaluate the impact of Colonialism, the American Revolution, and the Civil War on social services policy into legislation and litigations on both social policies and exceptionalities.
Recognize and explain the emergence of human services as a profession. Recognize and explain the emergence and historical perspective of exceptionalities.
State how the depression and civil rights movement changed social services legislation.
Explain how societal values play an integral role in formation of social services policy and the criteria for analysis of social services policies.
Name and delineate characteristics contributing etiological factors, classifications and life style adaptations of the exceptional populations.
Identify and explain the consequences of social policy on particular human service populations.
Identify and state steps in strategic and operational planning and apply to social services policy and exceptionalities in both oral and on written tests the understanding of social policies and exceptionalities.

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