Human Behavior and the Social Environment

Catalog description

This course reflects a critical perspective on understanding individuals, groups and communities using multidimensional frameworks and theories of well-being, stress, coping, adaptation, and the role of privileged and oppressed statuses and their influence on human development. Emphasis within this course is on knowledge about individuals and social systems and the processes of oppression, privilege, and discrimination and factors that help people and social systems change. Students learn to identify multiple determinants of human behavior and the implications of this knowledge when working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. PREREQ: Admission to The Graduate School