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Embracing Indiv W Sp Needs Prof Practice
Personal / Profess Ethics Mercy Perspectiv
Critical Consciousness- Understand Oursel
Current trends require the development of strategies and services to meet the needs of the growing adult populations of special needs individuals who live in the mainstream community. Meeting these needs presents unique challenges. This course focuses on the understanding, inclusion, and appreciation of people with special needs and their families in order to support the integration of people with disabilities into community life. The objectives provide for evidence- based practices that allow professionals to best meet the needs of these individuals and their families in a variety of disciplines. Since this course focuses on increasing the quality of life for an often oppressed segment of our society, it addresses the critical concern of non-violence of the Sisters of Mercy: Earth, nonviolence, women, racism, and immigration. This course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive. This course will focus on both personal ethics, how one lives one ' s life, and professional ethics, how one functions in his / her professional career. This will all be discussed through a Mercy perspective. Students will explore how a personal code of ethics is developed and how one lives out that personal code. This course will also explore codes of ethics for multiple disciplines / professions and their impact on how one functions in his / her profession. This course focuses on Nonviolence, which is one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: Earth, nonviolence, women, racism, and immigration. This course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive.
Living with a critical consciousness requires that we are able to examine our personal lives as well as the political, social, religious, and psychological contexts in which we find ourselves. Through an interdisciplinary course of study participants will view the disciplines of science, literature, history, education as means by which both we and the world have been constructed. Students will play an active part in the class through reading, reflecting, and responding to course material. This course focuses on Racism, which is one of the five critical concerns of the Sisters of Mercy: Earth, nonviolence, women, racism, and immigration. This course meets the University ' s definition of writing intensive.
SEM-364 |
Spirituality of the Child |
This course explores spirituality from the developmental, creative, and present-moment perspective of the young child, with particular focus on the works of Robert Coles, Aline Wolf, and various peace educators. Concentrating on the child as spirit-in-action, we explore creativity, acceptance of difference, and non-violence as elements of childhood development that are in need of nurturing. Through our own spiritual |
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