News and Notes for Undergraduate Academic Advisors - Spanish Class for Health Care Professions | Capstone Option for LAC Summer 2023 | Summer 2023 Social Work Courses

Please review these items to assist with your work with advisees as well for professional/personal information - or if appropriate to pass along to your students.  NEW: Academic Advisor Portal | Spanish Class for Health Care Professions | Capstone Option for LAC Summer 2023 | Summer 2023 Social Work Courses | Institutional Academic Advising Vision & Mission Statement  

• NEW! Academic Advisor Portal
  • The new Academic Advisor Portal is a centralized point for campus-wide UNI faculty and staff academic advisors, as well as student success partners, for information and resources to enhance work with students and further expand professional development.
  • Highlights of the portal include:  Advisor Toolbox - including scheduling and registration resources  |  Academic Advisor FAQs  |  UNI Advising Network  |  News, Information & Announcements
     
• Spanish Class for Health Care Professions
  • SPAN 2053 Spanish for Special Purposes: Health Professions  MWF 11:00-11:50
  • Prerequisites: Span 2001 (Intermediate Spanish) or equivalent (such as 3 years of High School Spanish)
  • Counts as an elective for the Spanish major, as well as for the Spanish minor and other Spanish language certificates
  • Learn Spanish grammar, vocabulary and culture, in the context of health professions.  This course will cover topics ranging from basic introductions and greetings to specialized vocabulary, including:
    • Describing symptoms - Family relationships / Making appointments / Nutrition / Medications / Diseases and medical histories / Physical examinations / Medical specializations / Hospitals / Pregnancy / Drug addictions / Family relationships
  • If you have questions, please contact Prof. Juan Carlos Castillo (Dept. of Languages & Literatures) juan.castillo@uni.edu
     
• Capstone Option for LAC Summer 2023
  • CAP 3131 Analysis of Social Issues is being offered in the Summer 2023 as a May 4-week online course via eLerning to satisfy the Capstone Liberal Art Core (previous) program requirement.
  • The course will focus on critical thinking skills applied to rhetoric about issues confronting society. How to use philosophy, logic, social science and natural science to critique arguments and engage in meaningful discourse. 
  • Prerequisite(s): junior standing.

• Summer 2023 Social Work Courses
  • SW 1001 Introduction to Social Work and Social Services  /   May (12 week) Online Libby Fry 
    • This course will introduce prospective social work majors to the field of social work, its history, values, and populations that are served. Students will become familiarized with the various roles, functions, and tasks that generalist social workers perform. Presentations by social work professionals in different fields of practice will supplement classroom lecture, discussion and small group exercises. As part of the course assignments, students will engage in a service learning opportunity. Students are required to volunteer in a social service setting for a minimum of 30 hours throughout the semester. The activity serves as a microcosm into the social work profession; gaining insight into agency/program function with opportunity for direct client interaction. Social Work majors must receive a minimum of a C in this course.
  • SW 2091 Practice with Individuals  /  June (8 week) Online Libby Fry
    • This course is one of three in the social work practice sequence. It provides students with beginning level knowledge, skills, and values for generalist social work practice with individuals. Students are exposed to diversity and difference in practice as they learn how to engage, assess, plan, prepare, implement, evaluate, and terminate. Professionalism is fundamental to this course and is guided by the Social Work Code of Ethics. Social Work majors must receive a minimum of a C in this course. 
    • Prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s): SW 1001; or consent of instructor. SW 4164
  • SW 4164 Human Behavior and the Social Environment  /  May (6 week) Online Megan Vogt-Kostner
    • Integrates multiple sources of knowledge in the analysis of models of human behavior from a person-environment perspective; attention is paid to structural components in oppression and the importance of difference in shaping life experiences. Social Work majors must receive a minimum of a C in this course. 
    • Prerequisite(s): a course in biology (BIOL 1014 preferred).
       
• Institutional Academic Advising Vision & Mission Statement (revised Spring 2016) [See Academic Advising Mission, Vision, Goals & Outcomes webpage]
  • Vision Statement: UNI aspires to create the best possible advising experience for each student.
  • Mission Statement: Academic Advising is a critical component of the teaching and learning environment at UNI. Advising is a personalized educational experience, empowering students to explore, articulate and achieve their academic, career and life goals.