HUS 102 - Cultural Awareness

Lecture - Lab - Credit Hours: 3-0-3
This course will be exploring a variety of issues related to cultural competency in Human Service professions. Major models will be used to conceptualize and integrate prevention, maintenance, intervention, rehabilitation, and healthy functioning. The concepts of aging, delinquency, culture, class, gender, mental illness, immigration, poverty, gender identity, substance dependency, oppression, and power will be explored. Prerequisite: Placement score into ENG 101 ; or minimum grade “C” in one of the following: ENG 021 and ENG 099 ; or the EAP course sequence ENG 079 and ENG 089 ; or ENG 096 .