Spring 2027

Human Behavior and the Environment

Reviews literature on human behavior and the environment from a bio-psychosocial perspective, focusing on individual and family behavior as a function of reciprocal interactions with groups, communities, organizations, and society.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.28 GPA, 65.6% A/AB (n=61 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the tenets of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives about human wellbeing and behavior, ecological systems, and social structures that are foundational to social work practice.

  • Exercise critical self-reflection about how their personal environments and social position have shaped their own values and biases and the ways these could lead to ethical dilemmas in professional practice with client systems.

  • Understand the complexity of biological, psychological, social and spiritual development of individuals throughout the life course, from infancy through older adulthood, taking into consideration social, cultural and environmental contexts.

  • Recognize how risk and protective factors at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels intersect with and impact human development throughout the life course.

  • Integrate and apply multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks and knowledge of human development to assess the needs of clients in their ecological environment and develop directions for interventions.

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Social Work MSW

  • Declared in Social Work MSW
SOCWORK 711

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  • Declared in Social Work MSW

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.94 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.28 GPA, 65.6% A/AB (n=61 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.91 GPA, 95.7% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Human behavior and the environment from a bio-psychosocial perspective.
  • Individual and family behavior and development as a function of reciprocal interactions with groups, communities, organizations, and society.
  • Interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on human wellbeing, behavior, ecological systems, and social structures.
  • Biological, psychological, social, and spiritual development throughout the life course.
  • Risk and protective factors at micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

Skills

  • Describing interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on human wellbeing, behavior, ecological systems, and social structures.
  • Exercising critical self-reflection regarding personal environments, social position, values, biases, and potential ethical dilemmas.
  • Understanding the complexity of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual development across the life course within social, cultural, and environmental contexts.
  • Recognizing how risk and protective factors at micro, mezzo, and macro levels intersect with and impact human development.
  • Integrating and applying multidisciplinary frameworks to assess client needs in their ecological environment and develop intervention directions.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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