Program Codes:
AS.CER
Certificate
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The Addictions Studies Certificate provides the educational and practical training hours required by NJ State Law for certification as an Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC). Students in the program complete:
This certificate offers students an opportunity to enter the field of addiction studies upon graduation and, after completing their supervised work experience, to apply for CADC certification.
Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:
Below are required courses and recommended course groupings and sequences for program completion. Courses may have prerequisite and corequisite requirements. Check course descriptions for details.
Through a variety of writing projects requiring competence in clear, correct, and effective English, students use inferential and critical skills in the process of composing documented essays. Extensive reading materials serve as structural models and as the bases for discussion and for the writing of essays involving response, analysis, and synthesis.
RDG-011 may be taken as a co-requisite if not previously completed with a grade of "C" or better.
Provides a psychological basis for the understanding of human behavior. A survey of fundamentals that are necessary for subsequent psychology courses. Topics include but are not limited to: learning, motivation, cognition, personality, abnormal behavior, development and social psychology.
This course provides a general orientation to and overview of the communication between cultures. The emphasis will be upon offering insight into how cultural differences and similarities impact upon the relationship between culture and communication. The focus will deal with the challenges of communication in a culturally diverse society and offer techniques for improving communication between members of different cultures.
Introduces students to both the historical and the contemporary experiences, diverse cultural values, lifestyles and contributions of a cross-section of racial and ethnic groups and other minority groups such as women and the elderly.
This course focuses on the addiction process, familiarizing students with various substances and the impact of addiction on the individual, the family and society. Addiction is examined from social, psychological and biological perspectives. Students are required to attend 15 addiction meetings.
An introduction to basic effects and neurophysiology of substance use, abuse and dependence. Socio-cultural and psychological perspectives are addressed, with additional emphases on the biomedical, socio-cultural and psychological perspectives.
A multidisciplinary approach to the problems of, mental health and illness stressing the role of, physical, psychological, and sociological forces, as causative factors in personality disturbances.
PSY-123 or permission of department chair
This course will familiarize students with the agencies and other resources available within the local community, particularly as they relate to addiction. The role of consultation and effective referral strategies is emphasized. Students are required to attend 15 addiction meetings.
Contact Name: Timothy Hack, department chair
Contact Phone: 732.906.2590
Contact Email: HSS@middlesexcc.edu
Department Web: https://www.middlesexcc.edu/history-social-science/