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Overview:
This course is a practicum in community service learning designed to expose the student to the organization, purpose, process, outcome and value of community-based programs and social services through their volunteerism. The field work experience consists of 50 hours of on-the-job training within a community agency which is committed to instruct, supervise, and evaluate a student, in conjunction with a faculty member, in the skills and understandings essential to human services. Such service may qualify the student for a Human Services Certificate and should guide the student's personal development toward vocational choice. Co-requisite courses: Soc001 Introduction to Sociology or Soc002 Social Problems
Course Learning Objectives:
1. Define the organization, purpose, process, outcome, and value of a service agency.
a) Explain the mission, goals and objectives of the agency you serve, how the agency is structured, how it is financed, and how it functions to serve its clientele.
2. Project the role of volunteerism in non-profit, community organizations.
3. Describe needs or conditions and relative culture/ethnicity of clientele served.
a) Demonstrate knowledge of populations most at-risk in the United States and community resources for meeting the client needs.
4. Evaluate both individual and organizational roles in addressing social problems.
a) Demonstrate sensitivity serving clients from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
5. Understand personal and social values relative to serving persons or social causes.
a) Identify attitudinal changes toward the clientele and the social work profession.
b) Give examples of how one's values shape perceptions and behaviors toward others.
6. Develop and demonstrate analytic, communication, technological and organizational skills. Familiarize yourself with developing technologies in the areas of human services.
a) Provide examples of changes in policies (and procedures) that will make service delivery more effective and efficient.
7. Perform community service as a behavioral response to a social problem.
a) Demonstrate familiarity in serving at-risk populations at both direct and community practice levels.
Requirements and Evaluation:
Satisfactory completion of 50hrs fieldwork and hours
Attendance & participation in group meetings
Journal writings of service experience monthly
One-on-one site observation and/or meeting by/with this professor
One book reading and reporting of a novel related to this vocation
Student Evaluation form completed by agency served
Agency letter recognizing/commending your service requested
Completion of the fieldwork Summary Report & Reflection paper
Copy of a culminating letter sent to agency, or editorial to local media
Personal Testimony on the value to you of this course/experience
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