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Spring 2026 Lecture Recitation Distance Learning Upper Division
This course is an introduction to skills commonly used in helping professions, including relationship-building skills, beginning interviewing skills, and group process skills. Attention is paid to cultural competence and professional ethics. This course includes a weekly lab experience involving practice of the helping skills, as well as a service-learning project in which helping skills are used in a community setting.
Learning Outcomes1Use basic helping skills effectively in both individual and group contexts.
2Evaluate your own helping interactions and those of others, including making constructive suggestions for improvement.
3Design, implement, and reflect on a service-learning project that uses helping skills in a community setting.
4Contribute to your team's successful service-learning project and provide leadership to the team as appropriate.
5Reflect on your experiences in the course through your writing and use those reflections to promote development toward your own professional goals.
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