COURSE SYLLABUS OUTLINE

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1 COURSE SYLLABUS OUTLINE Department: Educational Studies, Leadership and Counseling Course Number: GUI 670 Credit Hours: 3 semester hours I. Title: Multicultural Issues in Human Services II. Catalog Description: The purpose of this course is to focus on the role that cultural environment plays in the lives of people and the implications of that role for the helping professions and the helping process. There will be an overview of the different microcultures to which individuals belong and the implications for the delivery of services. It is expected that the student will learn how to use the concept of pluralism in the provision of services to multicultural individuals and populations. III. Purpose: This course describes the purposes and processes in meeting the need of future and present human service workers for adequate preparation in multicultural activities. These individuals must have a commitment to cultural pluralism and recognition that multicultural preparation is a matter of attitude as well as knowledge and skills sequenced into competencies encompassing cultural awareness and interactive skills. Human service workers must embrace this ideal of cultural pluralism, that is, the right of all citizens to retain their ethnic tradition while maintaining equal rights and access to opportunity. Plus the student must understand KERA's commitment to diversity. IV. Course Objectives: A. This course should help to prepare the human service worker to l. provide appropriate service for a pluralistic world of clients. 2. meet effectively the learning and socialization needs of clients from differing cultures and so enable them to succeed in the mainstream. 3. possess a knowledge base of cultural factors such as language personal attributes, social mores, and an understanding of the sociology, history, values, and politics of a particular cultural group. 4. be able to perceive, believe, evaluate, and behave in required ways in differing cultural settings. 5. possess those characteristics necessary for successful interaction with multicultural clients such as empathy, genuineness/objective/subjective balance, self-awareness, acceptance, desire to help, and patience. (Theme 10) 6. realize that in any relationship situation the difference between worker and client

2 in terms of age, sex, educational experience, religious connections, or family experiences constitute a formidable barrier that must be crossed to create a climate of natural trust and empathic understanding. B. To help human service workers develop an integrated conceptual framework by which to view how multicultural activities relate to the wider social forces, the client relationship, and the culturally different in this country: 1. perspectives - conceptual view of multicultural elements. 2. methods - alternative approaches for including cultural data. 3. client populations - work with a variety of ethnic groups. 4. key issues - controversy in the various culture-sensitive areas. C. To emphasize understanding across cultures as it relates to the major areas of professional activity: 1. provision of services. 2. consultation. 3. evaluation/measurement. 4. research and publication. 5. personnel administration. 6. preparation/training. V. Content Outline: A. Culture 1. Cultural definitions and dimensions 2. Cultural evolution and process 3. Multicultural development 4. Cultural pluralism 5. Major ethocultural groups B. Profiles of the American People 1. African Americans 2. Asian Americans 3. European Americans 4. Hispanic Americans 5. Native Americans 6. Middle East Americans Multicultural Issues Throughout the Lifespan C. Group Identity and Relations 1. Minorities: racial, ethnic, and numerical 2. Influence of differences: physical and cultural

3 3. Prejudice: social, political and economic 4. Racism: individual, institutional and cultural D. Education and Achievement 1. Multicultural Education 2. Basic issues and strategies 3. Educational equality for exceptionality/disadvantaged E. Work and Career Development 1. Work and the work ethic 2. Economic conditions, systems, and trends 3. Career development within cultural diversity 4. Equal opportunity/affirmative action F. Social and Personal Growth 1. Personality, adjustment, and maladjustment 2. Stress, suicide and substance abuse 3. Marital and family 4. Aging and the aged G. The Culture of the Helping Professional 1. Cultural background 2. Personal dimensions 3. Professional knowledge, attitudes, and skills VI. Instructional Activities: A. Lecture B. Class participation/discussion C. Small group activities D. Personal Perspectives Paper E. Take Home Questionnaire F. Research and presentation of an American profile (V-B) G. Contemporary Article VII. Field and Clinical Experiences: None VIII. Resources:

4 See Text and References, XI. IX. Grading Procedures/Evaluation: Take Home Questions = 140 American Profile = 160 (80 individual 80 group) Personal Perceptive = 100 Twice Contemporary Articles = 20 Total = A = 93% = B = Evaluation and grade will be determined by take home assignments, tests and projects based on text, supplementary readings in professional journals, lectures, group activities, and class discussion. Handout will be provided. X. Attendance Policy: This course adheres to the policy published in the MSU Graduate Bulletin. XI. Academic Honesty Policy: Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person s material as one s own), or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination, the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports, or term papers or the presentation or unacknowledged material as if it were the student s own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place. XII. Text and References: A. Text Baruth & Manning, Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy, Merrill, 2 nd ed B. References 1. Bennett, Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice, Allyn and Bacon, 1986.

5 2. Brislin, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Permagon, Lee and Richardson, Multicultural Issues in Counseling: New Approaches to Diversity, AACD, Man Keung Ho, Family Therapy With Ethnic Minorities, Sage, Pederson, Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling Therapy, Greenwood, Pederson, Handbook of Cross-Cultural Development in a Multicultural Soceity, Brooks/Cole, Axelson, Counseling and Development in a Multicultural Society, Brooks/Cole, C. Professional Journals D. Handouts XIII. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and advisor/program approval. GUIzip/670