Looking Ahead and Expectations

This entry point journal asks you to reflect on the course learning outcomes (CLOs) for EDU 7000, which can be reviewed on the Syllabus page and are also pasted below, at the end of this assignment description. These CLOs define what you should be able to do with the knowledge and skills you will gain in this course. This exercise is an opportunity to think about how the experience of completing this course relates to who you have been in the past, who you are now, and who you plan to be.

Reflect on how you currently apply knowledge relating to theories and philosophies of learning and cognition, as defined by the CLOs, and how you anticipate applying the knowledge and skills defined by the CLOs in the future. Specifically:

Begin by writing a paragraph addressing your thoughts on the CLOs at a high level.

• Address no fewer than two of the CLOs specifically, describing your experience with, and sharing your thoughts regarding, the usefulness and meaning of the related knowledge and skills.
• Describe how you envision using the knowledge and skills defined by the CLOs in your future academic and professional life.
• Finally, evaluate the CLOs as guidelines for what you will learn in the course. Do the CLOs adequately describe what you hope to learn in this course? Are there one or more CLOs of particular interest to you?
• Do you have an interest in one or more aspects of the history and systems of human services that do not fit within any of the categories defined by the CLOs?

You are encouraged to sketch your ideas in a manner more freeform than what would be typical of an academic writing assignment, keeping in mind that you are composing a journal. While good writing habits, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are always useful to convey clear messages, this is an opportunity to share your ideas and reflections using an informal style.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain in breadth the historical evolution of the human services field.
2. Evaluate the major contributing and evolving societal and socio-cultural issues and factors involved in the development of the human services field.
3. Summarize the major philosophical and ideological perspectives that have defined the human services field throughout history.
4. Compare and contrast the varied political, social, and economic perspectives throughout the human services professions.
5. Define the differences among past and present human services careers, human services worker characteristics, prevention methods, ethical concerns, value systems, and controversial issues in the process of change.

Please feel free to freewrite your ideas here as though you were composing a journal entry. While good writing habits, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization are always useful in conveying clear messages, this is an opportunity to share your ideas in a more informal format.