HDFS 477 - Professional Skills Development

Prerequisite

HDFS 286 (prior to Fall 2011) or HDFS 277 (after Fall 2011). Instructor approval must be given prior to enrollment.

Description

Applications and integration of human development and family background within professional settings.

Resident students taking the internship via the Online section will follow the same procedure as students in the Resident section of internship to establish a placement in Fort Collins. Refer to "Hot Tips" email announcement for procedures and deadlines.

Distance students who live and work beyond 30 miles from CSU must contact Gena Sandberg (course instructor) to discuss the procedure for seeking a distant site NO LATER THAN December 16, 2011. Please realize that establishing a distant site requires a great deal of time and effort, so do not delay if you wish to take the internship in the upcoming semester.

Students who live within 30 miles of CSU will seek an Internship site via the local placement procedure; contact Gena Sandberg for details.

Some circumstances of local Resident students may qualify for hardship consideration. Contact Gena Sandberg for details.

If course is closed, then maximum enrollment has been met. Please contact the instructor for more information on a possible second section to be offered.

This course can be applied towards:

• Human Development and Family Studies (B.S.)

Textbooks and Materials

Textbooks and materials can be purchased at the CSU Bookstore unless otherwise indicated.

Required

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (may already have from previous course), 6th Ed. (2010)
  American Psychological Association
  ISBN: 978-1433805615
• The Successful Internship, 3rd Ed.
  Sweitzer, H. Frederick & King, Mary A.
  ISBN: 978-0495385004

Instructors

Gena Sandberg
(970) 491-1933
gena.sandberg@colostate.edu