Courses
Counseling Component
EDUC 500: The Counseling Process: Theory and Practice
This course focuses on theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling. Cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations are also addressed. EDCO 503: Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling Examination of current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy. EDCO 541: Theories in Counseling Theory, research, and practice of psychological counseling. EDPT 502: Learning & Individual Differences Theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts. EDUC 547: Career Development: Theory & Process Theories and process of career development; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life. EDUC 637: Group Counseling: Theory & Process Theory, research, and practice of group counseling. Includes laboratory experience. |
Student Affairs Component
EDHP 500: Foundations of Higher Education
This course explores contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States. This course offers analytic perspectives from disciplines including history, philosophy, and sociology with implications for policy and practice in higher education. EDHP 563: Student Affairs Work in College This course covers principles, services, and organizational patterns of student affairs programs and services for two-year, four-year and professional higher education institutions. It also offers a detailed introduction to those exploring various opportunities within student affairs. EDHP 687: Student Development in Higher Education This course explores theories of college student development and application of developmental models for program design, interventions, outreach, and research programs. This course is essential for understanding how students grow and change during the college years and is applicable to the work of all student affairs practitioners. EDHP 552: Politics of Difference This course focuses on strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically underserved groups. EDUC 609: Academic Advising in Postsecondary Education The goals for this course include gaining an awareness of historical and theoretical perspectives that relate to academic advising, gaining a better understanding of how academic advising "works" in practice by building our knowledge of academic advising organizational systems and structures, and developing a team project that demonstrates an understanding of theory, practice, and professional development as it relates to academic advising. EDHP 580: The Community College Learning objectives for this course include understanding the community college movement and history, curriculum, and types of administrative structures. Students will also learn about the goals of community colleges, their relationship to secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, and profiles of faculty and students. |
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