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MHS
students attend classes at Lincoln University's main campus every Saturday for
four semesters and one summer session. Semesters are 15 weeks long; the summer
semester is 8 weeks. Each semester focuses on a different generic human service
competency, something any human service worker, as a professional, must be competent
to do. The following five competencies form semester-long units of study called
competency units (CU):
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CU
I: Self-directed Learning
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CU
II: Helping Relationships
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CU
III: Group Processes (summer session)
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CU
IV: Community Planning and Program Management
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CU
V: Organizational Development and Planned Change
The
student progresses from one competency unit to the next--from personal assessment
competencies to client-oriented competencies, to an organizational/management
focus.
During each CU, the student
attends academic classes in each of four essential dimensions of human service
competencies:
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Values
(Ethics)
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Self/Others
(Psychology)
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Systems
Theory (Sociology)
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Skills
(Communication, Intervention/Community Organization, Management and Research Skills)
When the competencies
and dimensions are put together, they form a matrix of courses that make up the
MHS curriculum. This curriculum provides the integration of concepts and practice
which is the hallmark of the Lincoln University Master of Human Services Program.
Field Integration
and Constructive Action Seminars
In
addition to Saturday's academic classes, students attend a Field Integration Seminar
held one evening each week near their agencies or homes. These seminars are the
heart of the MHS Program curriculum. The primary purpose of the Field seminar
is to enable students to integrate what they learn in their academic classes on
Saturdays with what they have experienced on the job during the week. Weekly logs,
individual presentations and professional experiences form the basis for discussion.
Field seminars also provide the context for the student to discuss the
Constructive
Action (CA) project that they implement at their jobs or in their communities.
Each semester students prepare a CA which demonstrates their ability to synthesize
what is learned in class and apply that to real problems in a human services professional
setting. Typically the project is one which improves the services provided to
clients, makes an administrative process more efficient, or investigates and evaluates
an organizational structure. Emphasis is on problem solving using the Action Research
model.
Additional curriculum
information is available:
Lincoln
University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
1570 Old Baltimore Pike, P.O. Box 179, Lincoln University,
PA 19352 (484) 365-8000
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