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2018-2019 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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Courses are identified and organized by degree program. Listed below are those courses for the 2018-2019 academic school year. CampusVue will list courses open for enrollment each semester, by Section if applicable. Not all courses are offered every semester.
College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences (CIMHS)
All courses are online. Each course description includes information about the term in which it is offered every academic year, as well as any prerequisites and residential conference (RC) requirements. Students registered for an online course that requires residential training must attend the specific RC component to remain enrolled.
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TSC 6615 - Overview of Transformative Social Change Interventions
To change the world (or some small part of it) people need to take action. However, what are the most appropriate ways to take effective action? This course is designed to introduce students to the strategies, tactics, and methods used to promote transformative social change. Students will learn how to launch a project, non-profit organization, or movement, conduct successful meetings and build consensus, develop a strategy and tactics, take effective action, and maintain the change while nurturing his or her well-being. This course will provide students with a broad overview of how to bring about transformative change in social systems on a variety of levels. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6620 - Psychology of Disability, Rehabilitation, and Empowerment
This course is designed to introduce the student to both (1) an understanding of how the community-at-large conceptualizes the role of persons with disabilities due to illness, trauma, and environmental impact (malnutrition, wars, etc.) and how that has transformed over the years given disability rights advocacy and legislation, particularly in the United States; (2) issues in treating the individual with disabilities and the differences and similarities in working with other individuals in treatment; and (3) voices of persons with disabilities and their narratives. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7075 - Global Governance and Democratic World Federation
Humanity has long been plagued by wars, disease, famine and social injustice. In recent decades, these problems, along with new challenges such as climate change, terrorism, economic disruption, pandemics, and transnational organized crime, have become global in scale, posing serious threats to humankind. There have been three primary approaches advanced for nations to address these global concerns and best meet human needs — as sovereign states working together; by creating institutions, policies, and confederations such as the United Nations; or by forming a democratic world federation. This course traces the history of these ideas, the movement toward global democracy, how our current world system may create or exacerbate these global problems, and several approaches to their solution. We will also critically assess these approaches and discuss current efforts to implement them. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7077 - Building Sustainability: The Global Crisis
Sustainability is defined as living in such a way that the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs is preserved. However, current patterns of human life are exhausting and destroying the gifts of nature that are necessary for life. To achieve sustainability, humans must refrain from depleting non-renewable resources and from polluting air, soil, and water. We must control both population and consumption and will likely need to end the extremes of wealth and poverty that are currently proving destructive to our habitats. Finally, sustainability will, we believe, require major changes in social institutions and in the way humans think and act toward each other and toward the earth. The pace at which we make these changes will determine how much of earth’s resources are left for generations yet to come. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7079 - Building Sustainability: Present Practices in Community and Society
This course explores principles, implementation, and effectiveness of selected current sustainability approaches. It provides an overview of key perspectives on sustainability: The Natural Step, Natural Capitalism, renewable energy, green building, sustainable agriculture, and population control. This course introduces information about present practices relevant to many disciplines and social domains and provides a broad base on which to build further studies and real-world projects. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7085 - Globalism and Power
This course describes different manifestations of globalization and identifies the powerful forces directing them, the costs and benefits that come with it, the evolving role of transnational groups, global NGOs, and the opportunities to find personal meaning and local purpose in a global society. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7115 - Refugee Trauma and Resiliency
This course covers the breath of topics (i.e., mental health, human resiliency, human rights, humanitarian aid) related to working with displaced people (refugees, asylum seekers, exiled individuals and internally displaced people). It is designed as a survey course for students interested in understanding the landscape with regards to research and practice for the protection and assistance of refugees. This course is useful for the more experienced student who desires to develop an independent project or dissertation work based on one of the areas of concern presented in the course. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 8151 - Practicum in Professional Practice
This course is intended for students seeking practicum training not related to clinical practicum or the MFT program. Students are responsible for arranging the practicum and should consult their Specialization director in order to identify a Saybrook faculty liaison. Prerequisite(s): Open only to students pursuing a TSC certificate. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 8950 - Certificate Integrative Seminar
The final part of the Certificate is the integrative paper. The purpose of the integrative paper is to give the learner an opportunity to draw together the most important aspects of the Certificate courses, to assess strengths and identify further learning needs, and to develop a specific plan for continuing personal and professional work. Prerequisite(s): Open only to students pursuing a TSC certificate. 1 credit(s)
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