Social Work Transfer to BVU

This course is an exploration of writing as a process with attention to audience, purpose and patterns of exposition.
Pre-requisite: Recommended ACT Composite of 22. Students may complete aýwriting sample to gauge preparedness for the course and thenýaccess instructional staff and resources in the CometýLearning Center both before and during the course to beýsuccessful.

A general course designed to make the student more aware of musical form, media, genres, musical periods, and the essential role of music in life and culture. Emphasizes the development of tools for intelligent listening and appreciation.

This course introduces fundamental theories of moral behavior, examines important concepts and arguments used in moral reasoning, and applies ethical theories to contemporary personal and social issues.

This course introduces students to the scientific study of mental processes and behavior with emphasis on psychological theories. This course explains the importance of evidence-based approaches in practice and literature. Students apply critical thinking in relation to research methods and ethics in the field of psychology.

This course introduces students to the College's expectations, environment, and resources so that students may become more competent participants in the learning process.

This course is a study of selected problems of modern society, primarily in the United States, their nature, development, social courses and alternative solutions. It includes such topic areas as racial and sexual discrimination, urban and rural problems, crime and delinquency, family and generational problems, health and medical care, social deviance, substance abuse and such global problems as population, world hunger and international conflict.

This course addresses the essential concern of macroeconomics; understanding and improving the performance of the economy as a whole by studying topics such as the effect of fiscal policy and monetary policy on inflation, unemployment and economic growth in a global economy.

This course is a continuation of ENG 105 with emphasis on developing more complex, sophisticated forms of exposition. It includes a research paper requiring library research, documentation, and bibliography.
Pre-requisite: Take ENG-105 Composition I

This course provides a broad mathematical knowledge to calculate, analyze, and solve day-to-day problems. Topics include number theory and the real number system, algebra, graph and data interpretation, calculator usage, mathematical reasoning process, problem solving techniques, probability and statistics, geometry, and consumer mathematics. Additional supplemental instruction for students will be available through the Comet Learning Center using ALEKS as an instructional tool.
Pre-requisite: MAT-102 Intermediate Algebra or an ACT Math score of 20 orýan ALEKS assessment score of 29 or an ACT Composite score ofý22.

This course examines the process of human development. It covers the entirety of people's life span from embryogenesis to death through the biopsychosocial lens.
Pre-requisite: Take PSY-111;

This course examines the family as a basic institution. Special focus is given to the marital life cycle: courtship, dating, marriage, the childbearing years, parent-child relationships and marriage during the middle and older years. This course examines the implication of marital dissolution and the family, as they exist under modern social conditions. Focus is given to contemporary variations of the family commonly referred to as intimate relationships (co-habitation, hooking up and gay marriage). This course is a required component for USD, BCU and BVU Social Work transfer programs.

This course consists of theoretical analysis of the relation of deviant group behavior and subcultures/countercultures to community standards of conventional behavior as expressed in laws and norms. Analysis of social control settings and mechanisms and the relationship between social deviance and social control efforts at both the micro, mezzo and macro levels are emphasized.

This is a terminal one-semester lecture and lab course covering the structure and function of the human organ systems and their organs. It also includes an introduction to medical terminology, homeostasis, basic cell and tissue structure and function. Students are required to identify specific organs including the major bones, the major muscles and the major blood vessels.

The conceptual and theoretical framework presented in this course provides students the tools to practice social work in a variety of settings. The format of this class provides a combination of classic theory, new research and applied experience.

This course acquaints the student with the sociological approach to understanding issues facing diverse populations. This course provides insight into barriers faced by race and ethnic groups and ways in which these barriers are navigated. The study of race and ethnicity includes a comprehensive examination of whiteness as a race, and the privilege of whiteness nationally and globally. Issues of race and ethnicity are presented through a global lens, primarily through theories of Diasporas. Prior completion of SOC 110 Introduction to Sociology is recommended.

This course is a survey of the historical and contemporary use, abuse and addictive nature of ethyl alcohol and the symptomatology and treatment of alcohol dependence. Students will be provided with a basic knowledge of the nature, scope and complexity of alcohol dependence and the wide range of current approaches to its treatment and prevention. Special attention will be given to issues of racial-ethnic and spiritual diversity within the context of alcohol use, abuse and recovery.

This course focuses on understanding the etiology of trauma, best practices of trauma-informed care, and resilience building. Primary focus is on understanding trauma and resilience at the individual, community and systems levels. Trauma, at the individual level, is underdiagnosed and treated, and is connected to elevated rates of mental illness, substance abuse, suicidality, poor physical health outcomes, and, low levels of educational achievement. The study of trauma and resilience at the systems level, focuses on issues like systemic racism, proactive and humane law enforcement, economic equity, criminal justice, educational opportunity, and the affirmation of human dignity and mutual respect. This course is open to any undergraduate student; however, its primary focus is students in helping professions. These include social work, criminal justice, addictions counseling, psychology, education, nursing and health sciences, and law. This course is part of the required course sequence for the Social Work articulation agreements with Briar Cliff University, the University of Northern Iowa, and the University of South Dakota, the Criminal Justice articulation with Briar Cliff University, and the Addictions Counseling and Prevention articulation with the University of South Dakota.

The course combines theory of speech communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech delivery, preparation, organization, support, and audience analysis. Practice of skills is through presentation and exercise.

This course explores the creative process emphasizing art as a visual form of communication. It presents useful criteria for evaluation and enjoyment of art through the development of visual vocabulary and knowledge of art processes, as well as art in a historical context.

This course is an introduction to the American system of government, including the U.S. Constitution. Basic philosophies, general principles of federalism, civil liberties, public opinion, political parties and interest groups, the electoral process, and the structure and function of national government will be covered.

This course focuses on students gaining an understanding and beginning mastery of interpersonal and interactional helping skills utilized by social workers in practice. The organization of the course and the learning methods used focus on both didactic and experiential learning. The content of the course is taught through lecture, discussion and interactional laboratory sessions in which the students learn through individual and group exercises, role play and activity experiences. This course is required for social work students transferring to USD and for WITCC's Addictions Counseling program.

This interdisciplinary course is designed for first or second year students to explore men?s and women?s experiences in American society and the role that ideas about sexual differences have played in shaping those experiences. Areas of inquiry will include, but are not limited to, the following: the construction of gender roles and sexuality; the relationship between gender and other social, political, and legal structures and institutions; and the interplay of gender with race, class, and ethnicity in cultural perceptions and expectations of both men and women. This course will strive to assist students in formulating questions about gender as it relates to their on-going work in various disciplines across the curriculum.

This course utilizes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to studying gender, race, class, sexuality and other markers of diversity. The curriculum highlights the duality of oppression and privilege and the ways in which race, gender, class and sexuality shape daily life. Special focus is on learning how to demonstrate course concepts as social action. Social justice is practiced as students become educated in these concepts of diversity and engage in diversity conscious social action.

This course provides students with an understanding of the fundamentals of mood-altering chemicals other than ethyl alcohol, and, theories, symptomatology and drug related illnesses (HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C). Students will also gain an understanding of the wide variety of perspectives related to the legality and/or illegality of many mood-altering chemical substances. Varying approaches to treatment and prevention of drug abuse will also be explored. Special attention will be given to issues of racial-ethnic and spiritual diversity within the context of drug use, abuse and recovery.