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13 courses · Santiago Canyon College · 2025-2026 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026
CNSL 101 Educational, Personal, Cultural, and Career Exploration
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Designed to promote academic and career success by exploring student development from an educational, sociological, psychological and physiological perspective. Exploration of higher education opportunities, potential career interests and a focus on educational planning. Recommended for students planning to complete an associate degree and/or transfer to a university. Field trips may be required.
CNSL 106 Inquiries Into Higher Education
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- 18 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
A comprehensive and advanced study of selecting and completing an academic plan, developing goals and objectives, and choosing a college major. Topics include study techniques, assessing interests and skills, and planning a major.
CNSL 110 University Transfer Research
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
Development and enhancement of decision-making strategies for transfer students. Identification of education/career goals. Analysis, comparison, and evaluation of university admission, major, and post-graduate requirements and student services. On-site research/field study at universities. Field trips required.
CNSL 111 Learning Skills Development
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- 18 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Application of educational/psychological principles in the development of effective learning skills for college courses. Topics also include identifying diversities of cultural influence, learning style, time management, textbook study/comprehension, note-taking, research preparation, and testing.
CNSL 113 Learning Strategies for College Success
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This comprehensive course is designed to promote academic success by exploring the students’ development from an educational, sociological, psychological and physiological perspective. Students will learn critical thinking strategies and communication techniques for their educational, professional, and interpersonal achievement. Students will also cultivate effective learning strategies that will assist them in developing study habits for college academic success. Students will be introduced to lifestyle techniques that will promote a healthy work/ life balance as it pertains to their current lives as college students and to their future working adult lives.
CNSL 116 Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
The course is designed to assist students in successfully establishing and achieving education, career and life goals. Students are guided through a reflective process that focuses on values, interests, personality, skills and learning styles. Career and education options are researched, and students are exposed to college resources and support services. Decision making models and goal setting techniques are examined and will be used to develop short and long term education, career and life plans. Materials fee required.
CNSL 118 Self Exploration and the Teaching Profession
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
An exploration of “self” through a reflective process that focuses on values, interests, skills and personality as applied to the teaching profession and alternate professional choices. Topics include personal effectiveness, increasing cultural sensitivity, psychological and sociological forces within the workplace, career ladders and options, and academic preparation required for employment. Decision making models and goal setting techniques are examined and will be used to develop short and long term education, career, and life plans. Materials fee required.
CNSL 150 Introduction to Social Work and Human Services
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course covers the history and philosophy of social work and human services including theoretical frameworks, the function and orientation of social service organizations. Using a multidisciplinary approach, an examination of the impact of cultural, societal, and ethical issues facing the social work and human services field will frame how target populations are served. Through a social justice lens, special attention is given to the evolution current service delivery systems, their policies and procedures, and the tasks of culturally responsive social workers and human service workers within those settings. Former Title: CNSL 150, Introduction to Human Services (Fall 2025).
CNSL 152 Philosophy of Helping
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course engages foundational concerns of the helping professions such as educators, social workers and other human services from individual, communal, and societal perspectives. Explore ways society provides help that are empowering and authentic for those being helped, and tensions that inevitably arise when we try to formalize the helping relationship. In addition to exploring the skills that lead to caring, competent, and effective practice, students will develop a personal philosophy of helping that is critical and reflective.
CNSL 160A The Helping Professions Seminar
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- 18 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- CNSL 150 (Introduction to Social Work and Human Services); PSYC C1000 (Introduction to Psychology) or PSYC C1000H (Introduction to Psychology - Honors) or SOC 100 (Introduction to Sociology) or SOC 100H (Honors Introduction to Sociology)
- Corequisite
- CNSL 160B
- Transfers to
- CSU
The Helping Professions Seminar affords students the opportunity to incorporate the academic knowledge learned in the prerequisite and co-requisite courses while acquiring work experience in a social work/human services setting. Weekly supervision will be provided to foster problem solving, cultural competency, reflection, and self-evaluation as students gain insight into their future role as helping professions practitioners.
CNSL 160B Fieldwork Experience for the Helping Professions
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 108 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- CNSL 150 (Introduction to Social Work and Human Services); PSYC C1000 (Introduction to Psychology) or PSYC C1000H (Introduction to Psychology - Honors) or SOC 100 (Introduction to Sociology) or SOC 100H (Honors Introduction to Sociology)
- Corequisite
- CNSL160A
- Transfers to
- CSU
Fieldwork experience provides the opportunity for students to incorporate academic knowledge learned in the prerequisite/corequisite courses and gain life-long skills through supervised training hours in a helping professions setting. This course is designed to assist students with an opportunity to examine, apply, and develop skills that would enable them to gain employment in the human services field. With the approval of the instructor, students will select their fieldwork placement that supports their career goals.
CNSL 165 Multiculturalism in Counseling
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This introductory course examines multicultural counseling theories through the evaluation of systemic and societal inequities. A historical and comparative analysis of multiculturalism in American society will include the experiences of historically marginalized communities. The intersectionality of race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, identity development, and people with disabilities will be evaluated through the multicultural counseling lens.
CNSL 198 Philosophy of Helping
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 contact hours total
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course engages foundational concerns of the helping professions such as educators, social workers and other human services from individual , communal, and societal perspectives. Questions explored in this course include, how as a society do we provide help in ways that are empowering and authentic for those being helped and what are the tensions that inevitably arise when we try to formalize the helping relationship? In addition to exploring the skills that lead to caring, competent, and effective practice, students will develop a personal philosophy of helping that is critical and reflective.