COLLEGE COUNSELING

This program is designed to prepare individuals to serve as student personnel workers in higher education.The objectives of the program are:

1. to provide students with entry-level counseling skills.

2. to provide students with an understanding of both the young adult and the nontraditional student.

3. to provide students with an understanding of the social milieu of the individual in higher education.

4. to provide students with an understanding of student personnel services in higher education.

5. to provide students with internship experiences in the various aspects of student personnel work.

Program Requirements

I. Required Core for Student Personnel Services(24 semester hours)

• COUN705 Group Process in the Helping Professions (3)
  COUN710 Appraisal Techniques in Counseling (3)
  COUN715 Career Development and Life Planning (3)
  COUN720 Counseling and Consulting Theory (3)
  COUN725 Organization and Development of Programs in the Helping Professions (3)
  COUN730 Supervised Counseling Practice (3)
  COUN735 Counseling Practicum (3)
  EDUC788 Research Seminar in Guidance and Counseling (3)

II. Required Specialized Courses Student Personnel Services Track (36 semester hours)

• COUN700 Introduction to the Helping Professions (3)
  COUN745 Multicultural Counseling (3)
  COUN750 Study of the Individual in Higher Education (3)
  COUN752 Law in Postsecondary Education (3)
  COUN 756 Counseling the College Student (3)
  ______Elective (3)

• ______Elective (3)

• ______Elective (3)
  COUN795 Internship in Counseling - 600 clock hours - (12, arr.)

Total:  60 semester hours