Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (SSC)

SSC Courses

• SSC 100LEC Careers in Human Services
  Lecture
  

  Explores the range of professional and graduate school opportunities in human services and related fields.

  Credits: 2
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 102LEC Introduction to International Politics
  Lecture
  

  Introduces contemporary and historical international relations; also examines nationalism, imperialism, power diplomacy, and ideological conflict. This course is the same as PSC 102, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 103SEM Introduction to Health and Human Services
  Seminar
  

  Studies the health and human service system in the United States and locally, as it has been affected by history, changing values, and changes in the economic and political environment. Particularly emphasizes the gerontological, childhood, and community mental health service systems.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 118LEC Introduction to Environmental Studies
  Lecture
  

  Involves an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues. Explores ecological concepts, human environment, air and water pollution, pesticides, solid waste handling, mineral and energy resources, the nuclear fuel cycle, population and food resources, and environmental control.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 198SEM UB Seminar
  Seminar
  

  The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

  Credits: 1
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
  
• SSC 199SEM UB Seminar
  Seminar
  

  The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the first year seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
  
• SSC 208LEC Introduction to Child Development
  Lecture
  

  Examines developmental milestones, needs, and characteristics of children from infancy through the early school years; including child-care play, personality, learning activities, and family relationships. Also discusses controversial areas of child rearing, and current trends. This course is the same as SSC 208 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 209LEC Case Management
  Lecture
  

  An applied skills course for the delivery of human services. Considers the roles and functions of case management and various vulnerable client groups as target populations. Involves analyzing cases for client needs and comprehensive service planning. Practice competency, quality of care, and ethical standards are major concerns of the course. Small group activities and community-based interviews are important student learning experiences.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 210SEM Skill Development in Human Service
  Seminar
  

  Introduces specific techniques and skills employed in human services careers.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 212LEC Sociology of Diversity
  Lecture
  

  What does diversity mean in the contemporary United States? Under what conditions is diversity positive or negative? This course applies a sociological lens to the meaning and experience of diversity, paying particular attention to dimensions of difference such race, ethnicity, religion, class, (dis)ability, sexuality, and gender. This course is the same as SOC 211, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 213LEC Social Research Methods
  Lecture
  

  Introduces procedures by which social scientists gather, analyze, and interpret information about the social world. Particularly emphasizes the use of campus-based resources for social service research.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 215LEC Law and the Political Process
  Lecture
  

  This course provides an introduction to the American legal system. A primary focus is the connection between law and politics. To that end, it examines the nature of judging and judicial decision-making, the organization of the state and federal legal systems, judicial selection, the power and role of the Supreme Court, and the relationship between the courts and the other two branches of government. This course is the same as PSC 215 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 217LEC Environmental Chemistry: Principles and Applications
  Lecture
  

  For Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Environmental Science students; designed to show how chemistry is involved in the identification, analysis, and solution of a large array of environmental problems. Relates basic chemistry to the atmosphere, the ozone layer, global warming, greenhouse gasses, energy production and emissions, water quality and pollution, acid precipitation, nuclear power and waste, nutrition, hydrology, and hazardous wastes.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 218SEM Issues in Mental Health
  Seminar
  

  Identifies community mental health service components and explores trends and issues in the delivery of mental health services.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 221LEC Writing in the Law
  Lecture
  

  Examines the legal writing process. Introduces students to the unique organization and structure of the law library, traditional as well as electronic. Requires group research and individual writing assignments.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 225LEC Statistics for Social Sciences
  Lecture
  

  Provides a foundation in statistical techniques for interpreting quantitative social data, including binomial and normal distributions, the Chi-Square test, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 230LEC Communicating for Health and Human Service Professionals
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Prerequisites: Completion of Communication Literacy 1 or completion of Writing Skills 1 (ENG 101 or placement into ENG 201)
  
• SSC 237LEC Medical Ethics: Social & Ethical Values in Medicine
  Lecture
  

  Examines current ethical positions and their application to ethical and social questions in medicine. This course is the same as PHI 237, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 238LEC Science, Religion, and Nature
  Lecture
  

  This environmental philosophy course explores the impact of religious traditions and modern science upon our perceptions of nature and how these perceptions ultimately determine our relationship with one another and the world in which we live. Specific areas of focus include nature attunement/magic, mythology, western mysticism, eastern religions, shamanistic traditions, Gaia theory and concepts of Spirit and nature.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 300LEC Sociology of Aging
  Lecture
  

  Societal aging is accompanied by a host of challenges, including how to provide care, income, and engagement opportunities for a growing population of older people. By examining societal trends related to aging students gain an understanding of how different societies adapt to these new challenges. Other topics may include: work and retirement, health, care work and family, death and dying, and changing patterns of inequality with age. This course is the same as SOC 304, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 301LEC Cases in Civil Liberties
  Lecture
  

  This course focuses on the opinions of the Supreme Court interpreting the two great clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment: The clauses that prohibit states from denying persons life, liberty or property without due process of law and that compel states to provide the equal protection of the law. The due process and equal protection clauses have given rise to some of the most profound constitutional issues in all of our history. The due process cases touch upon such subjects as economic liberty, and the right to privacy as it relates to abortion, sexual orientation and the right to control the time and manner of one's death. The equal protection cases deal with racial, gender and age discrimination. This course is the same as SSC 301, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 302LEC Protecting Civil Liberties
  Lecture
  

  Focuses on Supreme Court decisions addressing First Amendment rights and the constitutional rights of criminal suspects. Topics to receive treatment include the freedoms of speech, press, religion; separation of church and state; searches and seizures, confessions, the right to counsel, and cruel and unusual punishment. This course is the same as PSC 302, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 303LEC Constitutional Law
  Lecture
  

  Surveys Supreme Court decisions on separation of powers and federalism. Receiving special attention are presidential, congressional, and judicial power, as well as the federal government's power relative to that of the states. This course is the same as PSC 303 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 304LEC Legislative Politics
  Lecture
  

  Studies legislative process in the United States; including organization, internal dynamics, and functioning of legislative bodies; and their relations with the executive and judicial branches and with groups in society. This course is the same as PSC 304 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 305LEC Applied Child Development and Learning
  Lecture
  

  Integrates theory and current research with practical aspects of child rearing and family health. Explores developmental processes and behavior of young children as individuals and in group settings.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 306LEC Judicial Politics
  Lecture
  

  This course examines the distinguishing characteristics of the legal process. It treats the adversarial system, the nature of law, the character of legal reasoning, the system of precedent, law school education, judicial policy-making, and the limits and nature of judicial power. It seeks to examine the unique characteristics of the judicial process, contrast those characteristics with those found in the legislative and executive processes, and explores how the process of judicial decision-making influences what courts do and the power they wield. This course is the same as SSC 306, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 307LEC Criminology
  Lecture
  

  Why do individuals commit crime? This course examines and assesses a variety of theories from each of the three main criminological paradigms classical, positivist, and critical, with special attention to the role of important crime correlates such as class, gender, and race. In addition to theories of crime, the course also turns a critical lens to sources of crime knowledge (including popular media and national data sources), and introduces punishment philosophies and how they relate to theories of criminality. This course is the same as SOC 307, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 311LEC Lives in Time and Place
  Lecture
  

  This course is an introduction to the theories and research associated with the life course perspective in sociology. This perspective incorporates a life-long perspective on human development, in recognition of the developmental processes undergone by individuals throughout their lives, and emphasizes the continuities that exist between early-life circumstances and later-life outcomes. The life course framework is based on four central themes: the intersection of history and biography, the salience of links to significant others and between different life domains (e.g. work, family), the role of individuals in shaping their own life trajectories within social constraints, and the significance of the timing of events. This course is the same as SOC 308, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 313LEC Sociology of Families
  Lecture
  

  This course evaluates families as social institutions, and examines how social factors such as race, class, and gender shape contemporary families. Additional topics may include historical trends in family formation as well as contemporary public policies. This course is the same as SOC 313, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 314LEC Public Policy Making
  Lecture
  

  Examines dynamics of the policy process in the United States, including agenda-setting, formulation, and implementation. Case studies in substantive policy areas illustrate these processes. This course is the same as SSC 314 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 315LEC Field Ecology
  Lecture
  

  This is a field oriented course that explores the interrelationships of life with one another and their relationships with the environment that supports them. Classes are conducted both on and off campus and are focused in the areas of environmental analysis, conservation biology and general ecology. Specific class topics range from Wildlife Ecology, Botanical Surveys and Resource Management to varied Habitat Studies, Field Geology and Herbalism.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 316LEC Sociology of Gender
  Lecture
  

  This course explores the social and cultural construction of gender, focusing on the ways that femininities and masculinities are constructed from infancy through adulthood in the United States. Includes how gender shapes--and is shaped by--major social institutions such as media, sports, and work, as well as other characteristics such as social class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. This course is the same as SOC 316, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 317LEC Environmental Politics
  Lecture
  

  Focuses on the relationship between environmental problems and the political process. Explores definitions of an environmentally sustainable society. Then we attempt to answer the question of "how to get there from here." This involves developing a theory of social change by examining a number of case studies. We study local environmental controversies from a political perspective through firsthand involvement or guest speakers. We also look at national environmental conflicts, such as the backlash against mainstream environmentalism created by the "Wise Use" movement and contemporary political forces championing property rights and states' rights.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 319LEC Juvenile Justice
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 320SEM Issues in Dev. Disabilities
  Seminar
  

  Explores causation, prevention, advocacy, housing, education, employment, and community services. Defines career opportunities in this area.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 322LEC Medical Sociology
  Lecture
  

  This course explores notions of illness, health, and health care from a sociological perspective. Students examine conceptions of health and wellness, epidemiology and the history of medicine, health disparities within the US (such as by gender, age, race/ethnicity, social class and other characteristics), and access to health care. This course is the same as SOC 322 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 325LEC Race & Ethnicity
  Lecture
  

  Racial inequality pervades the social history of the United States: From the enslavement of Africans to the Jim Crow laws of the Deep South to the high levels of racial residential segregation in American cities, the inequity associated with skin color remains a powerful force in determining life chances. In this course we will study?the social forces that have formed the experiences of racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., and that have maintained the unequal nature of them. We will also study how issues of immigration and globalization provide a more thorough understanding of?racial and ethnic dynamics in the U.S., and we will touch on whether or not these dynamics are applicable to other geo-political settings.? This course is the same as SOC 321 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 326SEM Great Lakes Ecology
  Seminar
  

  The Great Lakes hold nearly 20% of all the available fresh water on the planet. They provide drinking water, hydroelectricity, and both economic and recreational opportunities to millions who live around their shores. This class provides an understanding of the Great Lakes, from their formation to the important role they play in the political and ecological systems of North America. Focuses on historical and ecological aspects, as well as current political and policy issues surrounding the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ecosystem. Students learn about the geology, biota, ecology, management, and social and political aspects of the Great Lakes, especially the lower lakes (Erie and Ontario). The course uses a multi-faceted ecosystem approach to diverse topics involved with understanding these complex ecological systems.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 329LEC Population Problems
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 332LEC Paralegal Principles and Procedures
  Lecture
  

  For employed paralegals or other legal workers or students interested in becoming paralegals. Students learn skills necessary to increase billable hours and productivity. Covers legal analytical research and writing, using legal terminology, professional legal writing of interoffice memos, civil pleadings, and discovery motions. Other topics covered are Evidence Preservation, Interviewing and Investigation, Introduction to Torts, Contracts, Criminal Law, Rules of Civil and Appellate Procedure, and Rules of Ethics for Paralegals.

  Credits: 4
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 333LEC Topics
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 334LEC Legal Research & Writing
  Lecture
  

  Students learn to independently conduct thorough law library research and draft memorandums of law on a variety of legal issues. Focuses on proficient legal analytical research and writing. Students draft several memorandums of law, each one more complex, which they should be able to use as professional writing samples.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 335LEC Sociology of Adolescence
  Lecture
  

  Adolescence is a unique stage of the life course. This course explores social processes and the socialization of children and adolescents, including patterns of parent/teenager/peer relationships, generational succession, and age stratification and the status system, self-identity, adolescent sexuality, and youth subcultures. This course is the same as SOC 335, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 338LEC Law and Morality
  Lecture
  

  Explores the moral status of legality and the legal status of morality, the status of unjust laws, and the role of moral judgments of lawmakers. Is a good law one that does good? This course is the same as PHI 338, and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 343LEC Violence and the Family
  Lecture
  

  Addresses issues in violence and violence prevention with sections on theoretical definitions and historical context. Topics include the social context of violent behavior in families, child abuse and neglect, abusive parenting, violence against women, abuse of the elderly, violence in communities of color, and the media's influence on the development of antisocial behavior. Explores special problems of child protection services and the justice system's approach toward domestic violence.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 346LEC Sociology of Deviance
  Lecture
  

  This course acquaints students with a sociological understanding of the causes, consequences, and treatment of social deviance. Students will critically evaluate definitions of deviance and analyze various social psychological and social structural explanations for deviant behavior, making special note of the policy implications of each theoretical perspective. The course covers specific acts of deviance, from violent behavior and mental illness to the deviant behavior of corporate elites and the police. Theories of deviant behavior will be deployed to explore issues related to the treatment/punishment of social deviants. This course is the same as SOC 345 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 347LEC Urban Sociology
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 348SEM Local Environmental Problems
  Seminar
  

  Overview of major environmental problems , with emphasis on the Western New York area. Examples of problems and solutions are explored.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 360SEM Environmental Impact Statements and Resource Management
  Seminar
  

  Examines the objectives, development, and preparation, of EIS in response to federal/state laws and regulations. Explores the environmental impact assessment process as it relates to the protection and potential impact of natural, cultural and economic resources.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 363LEC The Aging Process
  Lecture
  

  Introduces the aging process. Explores physiological and clinical aspects.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 365LEC The Family Process
  Lecture
  

  Considers the family: What is it? How does it work? How does it fail to work? Provides both United States and cross-cultural perspectives. Explores the theoretical foundation of family therapies.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 373LEC Law & Society
  Lecture
  

  This course introduces law as a social institution, with a focus on how some of its central features (lawyers, disputes, rules, etc.) are related to wider historical and social characteristics. Students will explore theoretical approaches to understanding the relationship between law and society, the role of law in everyday life, the social organization of the legal profession, and the relationship between law and social change.This course is the same as SOC 373 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 385LEC Energy, Environment, and Society
  Lecture
  

  Focuses on the relationship between energy use and the associated impact on the environment and society. Explores our dependence upon traditional energy resources such as oil, coal, nuclear and natural gas as well as renewable energy resources such as geothermal, wind, solar, etc. Examines solutions to the difficult process of changing current energy consumption trends.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 390SEM Human Services Administration
  Seminar
  

  Examines the practical aspects of managing a human services organization. Discusses the basic functions of management, including planning, budgeting, personnel, and organizational development. Presents these themes around such functions as team management, the consumer as customer, innovation, and creativity in attaining excellence.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 391LEC Cognitive Science Colloquium
  Lecture
  

  Acquaints students with ongoing research in the range of disciplines affiliated with cognitive science. Primarily requires attendance at the weekly colloquium and symposium series of the Center for Cognitive Science. Requires students to read any relevant literature that has been publicly announced prior to the upcoming colloquium or symposium.

  Credits: 1
  Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 406LEC Law and the Environment
  Lecture
  

  Studies statutory and case law relating to pollution control, natural resources management, government regulation of land use, and the process and logic of decision making in governmental and legal institutions.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 407SEM Health Care and the Elderly
  Seminar
  

  Provides students an opportunity to explore relevant issues in dealing with an elderly population in the health-care arena. Special focus on the frail elderly and aged with chronic medical conditions. Points of interest include incapacitation, consents, confidentiality, ancillary and other services, rites of passage, the health-care team, managing the difficult patient, lethality assessments, family/professional relationships, health-care settings and intercultural communication.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 408LEC Alzheimer's & Dementia
  Lecture
  

  According to the World Alzheimer?s Report (2013) 35.6 million individuals suffer from dementia globally and the costs related to their care exceed $604 billion per year. With the number of cases estimated to triple in the next 40 years, dementia and Alzheimer?s is a healthcare crisis that will affect us all in some way, especially those working in healthcare and human services. This course will prepare students to work in various health and community settings and address the unique needs and concerns of dementia care.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 413LEC Addictions Treatment
  Lecture
  

  This course provides a comprehensive view of the addictions treatment process. It identifies and develops skills necessary to assess and treat individuals in addiction treatment programs. It emphasizes common treatment practices, requirements and regulations expected of treatment programs and professionals.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 414LEC Grant Writing for Non-Profits
  Lecture
  

  Prepares student in human services, environmental studies, and urban and public policy for grant development. Overview of fundraising among non-profits, development of grant-writing strategies, and how to research and create grant proposals in a competitive market. Extensive proposal writing and composition. Integrated with current, ongoing internships if students simultaneously pursue a practicum in Health and Human Service (SSC 496) or and Environmental Internship (SSC 496). Students not pursuing a practicum or internship will adopt and research a non-profit organization appropriate to their field of study.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 416LEC Early Childhood Theory and Practice
  Lecture
  

  Undergraduate students explore their role as a reflective teacher. Curriculum based on early childhood (EC) theories is explored. Methods of designing appropriate EC environments are taught. Examines the teacher's role in documenting children's learning. Guides students toward active membership and involvement in professional organizations. This course is the same as LAI 416 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 417SEM Working with Diverse Populations
  Seminar
  

  The course focuses on understanding and respecting the role that diversity in its various forms plays in human services and other nonprofit work. Practitioners and professionals may frequently encounter populations that differ from themselves in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, as well as other identities and social statuses. This course is designed to encourage students to examine how their own identities and experiences shape how they see, interpret, and respond to the needs of the individuals and communities they serve, as well as how certain policies, interventions, or leadership styles may affect individuals and groups differently. In doing so, it aims to build the competencies needed to work effectively and sensitively in organizations with multicultural, diverse client populations, and to recognize and promote the capabilities and strengths of marginalized individuals and groups. Students will explore issues of diversity.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 418SEM Environmental Problems
  Seminar
  

  Focuses on understanding and dealing with complex, 21st-century socio-ecological problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, exponential population growth, diminishing water sources, homogenized agricultural systems, depleting rain forests, non-point source pollution, the irreversible conversion of environmental resources into disposable commodities, and more. Emphasizes the role of the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in solving these local-to-global environmental issues.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 419SEM Wilderness
  Seminar
  

  Focuses on wilderness and biocentrism. Explores the idea of wilderness along three pathways. Part 1 deals with the history of biological wilderness and philosophical wilderness from Spinoza to Leopold to Snyder. Part 2 covers biological and other wilderness qualities. Part 3 examines the social movements related to wilderness and biocentrism. Also explores environmental ethics and morals. Investigates proposals for wilderness restoration, preservation, and expansion. A close examination of indigenous cultures' wilderness beliefs accompanies our study.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 420SEM Child Mental Health
  Seminar
  

  Examines the human service system as it affects the mental health needs of children; also addresses specific needs of special groups.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 421LEC Interventions and Play
  Lecture
  

  This course is designed to introduce students to Play Therapy techniques and help students determine how they can be applied as treatment modalities for Children with Mental Health Issues and Disabilities. Students will review major mental health issues in childhood, explore play therapy as a modality appropriate for children's developmental stage, identify therapeutic strategies, and develop a plan for implementing an appropriate program of treatment

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  Prerequisites: SSC 103 and PSY 101
  
• SSC 428SEM Health Law
  Seminar
  

  Explores legal aspects of human services focusing on the constitutional right to privacy, the right to die, involuntary hospitalization and treatment of the mentally disabled, and entitlements. Covers family law, the rights of the elderly and the disabled, and laws concerned with special education.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 430LEC Human Rights
  Lecture
  

  Examines the development, primarily since World War II, of international systems for the promotion and protection of human rights. This course is the same as PSC 430 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 431SEM Topics in Human Services
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 432SEM Topics in Legal Studies
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 433SEM Topics in Environmental Studies
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 434SEM Topics in Urban and Public Policy
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 441LEC Wildlife and Wildlands Management
  Lecture
  

  Wildlife and Wildlands Management will focus on the application of ecological principles to studying and managing wildlife populations with emphasis on habitat management. This course serves as an introduction to wildlife ecology and management and focuses on the wildlife of North America. The course begins with a brief examination of the history of wildlife management and wildlife policy in North America. The majority of the class will focus on important wildlife species, wildlife ecology, population biology, and other subjects of importance to wildlife management. Special problems such as endangered species preservation, genetic diversity conservation, predator management, control of nuisance and alien species, and other non-game species will be covered. We will discuss case histories and current issues of wildlife management on public and private lands. Science, of which wildlife conservation is a part, allows us to understand how living systems function. This knowledge further allows us to determine our role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. We also consider the attitudes of humans toward wildlife and their demands and impacts on North America's wildlife resources.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 442SEM Environmental Movements
  Seminar
  

  Provides a comprehensive analysis of the environmental movement in the United States. Rather than focusing on whether the protection of the environment is "right" or "wrong" the course critically examines the past, present and future of the environmental movement including Conservation, Preservation, Deep Ecology, Environmental Justice, Ecofeminism and Ecotheology. The course will examine the methods used by grassroots, environmental organizations. Throughout the course what is discussed will be applied to several local environmental concerns.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 443SEM Law, Legal Writing and Advocacy
  Seminar
  

  Law, Legal Writing and Advocacy introduces undergraduates to the practical written and oral application of legal principles by giving them basic tasks a lawyer would perform. Students gain a basic knowledge of the legal system and the lawyers' role in it. They are given hypothetical factual situations that involve legal issues. They are asked to analyze the factual situation and to present the legal issues involved from different perspectives: the defense, the plaintiff/prosecutor, the judge, and law enforcement.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 446SEM Advanced Topics in Environmental Sociology
  Seminar
  

  This is an advanced seminar that builds on topics introduced in SOC 341: Environment & Society (recommended, but not required). The focus of the course will change depending on the instructor, but it will be organized so to provide students the opportunity to pursue comprehensive, in-depth sociological knowledge on a topic or theme related to the environment or environmental change. This course is the same as SOC 446 and course repeat rules will apply. Students should consult with their major department regarding any restrictions on their degree requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 448LEC Animals, Zoos, and Ecology
  Lecture
  

  Introduces the study of animal behavior. Explores natural behaviors and the factors affecting those behaviors by covering such topics as the evolution of behavior, the nervous and endocrine systems, biological rhythms, social systems, reproductive behavior, and more. Course participants examine and understand animal behavior through lectures, readings, short projects, and direct observation of the animal populations on zoo grounds.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 479LAB Environmental Education Field Studies
  Laboratory
  

  This course is designed to prepare students as environmental educators and field ecologists. Students will experience a series of lectures and fieldwork in the areas of environmental education teaching strategies and techniques, outdoor games and activities, curriculum development and field ecology studies. Students will also have an opportunity to participate in a teacher training program through a variety of youth ecology camps with a local environmental education organization.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Summer
  
• SSC 493LAB Ecology of Unique Environments
  Laboratory
  

  This course is focused upon week-long field ecology studies at unique and threatened environments throughout the United States. Participants will experience a wide variety of interpretive programs regarding the history, ecology and politics of these environments. At present, these expeditions are conducted during the Winter in the Florida Everglades and in the Summer to either the Adirondack Mountains of New York or Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 496TUT Internship
  Tutorial
  

  Community internship, health and human services internship, or environmental studies internship. See the appropriate SSC advisor for details.

  Credits: 1 - 6
  Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 499TUT Independent Study
  Tutorial
  

  Various instructors offer independent study. Check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs each semester.

  Credits: 1 - 4
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring