HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing and declared in Social Welfare or Social Work undergraduate program Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the tenets of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives about human wellbeing and behavior, ecological systems, and social structures that are foundational to social work practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Exercise critical self-reflection to recognize how their personal environments and social position have shaped their own values and biases in ways that could be salient for their social work practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand the complexity of biological, psychological, social and spiritual development of individuals throughout the life course, from infancy through older adulthood, taking into consideration social, cultural and environmental contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize how risk and protective factors at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels intersect with and impact human development throughout the life course. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks and knowledge of human development to identify their strengths and challenges. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the tenets of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives about human wellbeing and behavior, ecological systems, and social structures that are foundational to social work practice. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Exercise critical self-reflection to recognize how their personal environments and social position have shaped their own values and biases in ways that could be salient for their social work practice. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand the complexity of biological, psychological, social and spiritual development of individuals throughout the life course, from infancy through older adulthood, taking into consideration social, cultural and environmental contexts. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Recognize how risk and protective factors at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels intersect with and impact human development throughout the life course. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Apply multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks and knowledge of human development to identify their strengths and challenges. Audience: Undergraduate