Counseling Courses
COUN700 INTRODUCTION TO THE
HELPING PROFESSIONS
3 sem. hrs.
This introductory class is a core experience for
students enrolled in the MA Counseling pro-
grams. It exposes students to the generic com-
ponents of counseling, across settings, and
enables students to examine in-depth their per-
sonal fitness for pursuing a career as a profes-
sional helper. It also provides a background for
specialized study in each curriculum.
COUN702 INTRODUCTION TO
REHABILITATION
COUNSELING
3 sem. hrs.
This course is designed to introduce students
to the field of rehabilitation with an emphasis
on history, legislation, psychosocial aspects of
disability, and the rehabilitation process.
COUN705 GROUP PROCESSES
3 sem. hrs.
This course teaches students to understand
group processes and their application. Instruc-
tion uses both a didactic approach and a labo-
ratory approach wherein students learn
through observing their own group experience.
COUN710 APPRAISAL TECHNIQUES
IN THE HELPING
PROFESSION
3 sem. hrs.
This course presents an overview of the
assessment of individual differences through
group tests and measurements. It develops
competencies in selecting, administering, and
interpreting group intelligence, aptitude,
achievement, interest and personality instru-
ments. It also examines current research
involving assessment relative to educational,
social, and industrial settings.
COUN715 CAREER DEVELOPMENT
AND LIFE PLANNING
3 sem. hrs.
This course allows graduate counseling stu-
dents to explore, in depth, selected aspects
related to vocational psychology, occupational
sociology, career development, career choices,
career decision making, career counseling and
guidance, and other career-related issues and
behaviors. The course is designed to acquaint
students with the basic theories and constructs
that are essential to the understanding and
implementation of career development
through the life span. Systems of career edu-
cation, occupational information, decision-
making strategies, and life-work planning for
special populations are examined.
COUN720 COUNSELING AND
CONSULTING THEORY
3 sem. hrs.
This course studies selected theories and tech-
niques of individual counseling. It also covers
various models of the consultation process
focusing on the rationale of why consultation
has emerged as an important adjunct to per-
sonal counseling.
COUN725 ORGANIZATION AND
DEVELOPMENT OF
PROGRAMS IN THE
HELPING PROFESSIONS
3 sem. hrs.
This course prepares students to function pro-
ductively in entry level and mid-level supervi-
sory positions within institutions/ organiza-
tions that serve the needs of specified groups
of persons. It stresses both theory and applica-
tion as students experience the cyclical
process of program development and modifi-
cation. It also teaches selected leadership and
management roles and functions in organiza-
tional settings, as well as proposal writing and
working with grants.
COUN730 SUPERVISED
COUNSELING PRACTICE
3 sem. hrs.
This course assists students in identifying and
developing skills of an effective helper. Stu-
dents participate in counseling experiences
using role-playing and "real life" clients and
critiques in class audio and video tapes of
counseling sessions conducted by students.
COUN735 COUNSELING
PRACTICUM
3 sem. hrs.
The practicum provides an arranged, super-
vised experience in a specialized area of coun-
seling. It requires prerequisite training and suf-
ficient experience to allow the beginning of
autonomous functioning. Prerequisite:
COUN730.
COUN740 INDIVIDUAL
DEVELOPMENT
THROUGH THE
ADOLESCENCE 3 sem. hrs.
This course, intended primarily for profession-
al educators, enables adults to base their inter-
actions/interventions with children, adoles-
cents and parents on an understanding of the
process of growth and development. Students
will have the opportunity to engage in a use-
oriented project related to their individual
interests/needs.
COUN742 DEVELOPMENTAL
COUNSELING IN
SCHOOLS
3 sem. hrs.
This course prepares students to apply the
basic counseling skills in a school setting. It
emphasizes the various roles of the elementary
and secondary school counselor, tools and
strategies appropriate in those settings, and in
consulting and collaboration with other school
personnel.
COUN744 TECHNIQUES FOR
COUNSELING THE
STUDENT WITH A
DISABILITY
3 sem. hrs.
This course provides a foundation for graduate
students in school guidance to effectively
counsel the student with a disability. It empha-
sizes cultural, historical, and socio-economic
issues facing the adjustment of this student, as
well as specific counseling procedures for
assisting him/her in a school setting.
COUN745 MULTI-CULTURAL
COUNSELING
3 sem. hrs.
This course enables students to develop
knowledge and understanding regarding char-
acteristics and concerns of multi-culturally
diverse groups, the attitudes and behaviors
affected by dominant group membership, and
individual and group approaches/interventions
appropriate with diverse populations.
COUN750 STUDY OF THE
INDIVIDUAL IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
3 sem. hrs.
This course reviews major theoretical models
of student and adult development, develop-
mental aspects of college students, and the
effects of the college experience on individu-
als. Student personnel practitioners learn to
design programs to effect positive develop-
mental changes within college/university stu-
dents.
COUN752 LAW IN POSTSECONDARY
HIGHER EDUCATION
3 sem. hrs.
This course serves as a legal foundation for
graduate students in counseling, student per-
sonnel services, or related professions in high-
er education. Emphasis is given to the legal
history in higher education, institutional rela-
tionships with administrators, students, facul-
ty, the community; procedural processes, and
basic concepts of civil rights, criminal, tort,
and contractual law.
COUN753 STUDENT AFFAIRS
PRACTICE AND
ADMINISTRATION
3 sem. hrs.
This course prepares graduate students for
entry level and mid-level student personnel
services positions in higher education. It
emphasizes the history and philosophy of
higher education, student affairs purposes and
functional areas, as well as professional man-
agement/leadership issues relevant to higher
education institutions.
COUN754 FAMILY COUNSELING
3 sem. hrs.
This course prepares students to counsel fami-
lies. Students also learn how to use the Diag-
nostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disor-
ders for diagnosing and planning treatment
with families and individuals.
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