Course Schedule

The full-time and part-time course schedule below should be used as an example. Contact your admission representative to discuss your specific course schedule.


Full-Time Course Schedule

Year 1

Fall Semester

History of Education | EDUE 563 | 3 Units

Explores contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States and offers analytic perspectives from disciplines including history, philosophy, and sociology with implication for policy and practice in higher education.

The Counseling Process | EDUC 500 | 3 Units

Understand the theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling; cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations.

Student Development Theory | EDHP 687 | 3 Units

Explore theories of college student development and application of developmental models for program design, interventions, outreach, and research programs. Understand how students grow and change during the college years.

Spring Semester

Identity and Diversity | EDUE 560 | 3 Units

Examine strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically underserved groups.

Theories of Counseling | EDCO 541 | 3 Units

Examine theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.

Learning and Individual Differences | EDPT 502 | 3 Units

Examine theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.

Summer Session

Research Methods | EDUC 570 | 3 Units

Understand basic qualitative and quantitative inquiry methods and their appropriateness for addressing different research questions. Become familiar with research-related issues such as threats to validity.

Group Counseling | EDUC 637 | 3 Units

Understand theory, research, and practice of group counseling, including laboratory experience.

Year 2

Fall Semester

Counseling as an Act of Love | EDCO 543 | 3 Units

Explore the concept of love as an action and its relationship to humanizing education and, specifically counseling, as professional practice. Further, culture and identity is examined as significant elements in the process of humanizing education.

Career Counseling and Development: Theory and Process | EDUC 547 | 3 Units

Choose this or a Focus Course. Examine the career development process; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life.

CHOOSE ONE COURSE

EDHP 593A Masters Seminar / 2 units or

OR

EDHP 594A Thesis  / 2 units

Spring Semester

Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling | EDCO 503 | 3 Units

Examine current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in the practice of counseling and psychology.

CHOOSE ONE COURSE

EDHP 593B Masters Seminar / 2 units

OR

EDHP 594B Thesis / 2 units

In addition to the above, CHOOSE ONE FOCUS COURSE (or EDUC 547 if not completed in Fall semester)


Educational Counseling Focus Courses

Academic Advising | EDUC 609 | 3 Units

Contemporary issues in academic advising in postsecondary education. Examines and analyzes relevant theories, policies, and practices related to academic advising.

The Community College | EDHP 580 | 3 Units

Learn about the goals of community colleges, their relationship to secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, and profiles of faculty and students.

Student Disability | EDUC 531 | 3 Units

Understand the history of the disability movement; examine current research on the success of students with disabilities in higher education; legal and management issues.

Athletic Administration | EDUC 611 | 3 Units

Analyze and discuss critical issues in intercollegiate athletics, including student-athlete academic and social accountability; challenges of NCAA policies; commercialization, marketing, and fundraising in college athletics.

Management and Leadership | EDUC 657 | 3 Units

Examine the delivery of student services and programs in higher education, organizational behavior, management systems, administrative procedures and alternative leadership styles.

The Student Athlete | EDUC 617 | 3 Units

Examine student athletes in higher education and review effective strategies for counseling and advising college student athletes; issues and challenges of athletic amateurism.


Practicum in Higher Education

EDHP 587 (1-3 units)

Practicum provides students with a structured and supported experience in the profession. Practicum allows EC students to integrate prior and current classroom learning with practice-based experience in settings within higher education and connected to building new professional skills and strengthening their existing skills.

Practicum is an optional course for EC students who may be required to be enrolled in a practicum or internship course for a specific internship on or off campus. Practicum is offered every semester (fall, spring, or summer) for international students who wish to work off campus. This program is not eligible for I-20/DS-2019 issuance.

International students who would otherwise need a I-20/DS-2019 are welcome to pursue the program online from their home country. Any international student that will be participating in the program remotely outside of the United States will not be required to register for the practicum.


Part-Time Course Schedule

Year 1

Fall Semester

History of Higher Education | EDUE 563 | 3 Units

Explores contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States and offers analytic perspectives from disciplines including history, philosophy, and sociology with implication for policy and practice in higher education.

The Counseling Process | EDUC 500 | 3 Units

Understand the theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling; cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations.

Spring Semester

Identity & Diversity | EDHP 560 | 3 Units

Examine strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically underserved groups.

Theories and Counseling | EDCO 541 | 3 Units

Examine theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.

Summer Session

Group Counseling: Theory & Process | EDUC 637 | 3 Units

Understand theory, research, and practice of group counseling, including laboratory experience.

Practicum in Higher Education | EDHP 587 | 1-3 Units

Practicum is an optional course for EC students who may be required to be enrolled in a practicum or internship course for a specific internship on or off campus.

Year 2

Fall Semester

Student Development Theory | EDHP 687 | 3 Units

Explore theories of college student development and application of developmental models for program design, interventions, outreach, and research programs. Understand how students grow and change during the college years.

Career Counseling & Development | EDUC 547 | 3 Units or Focus Course

Examine the career development process; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life.

Spring Semester

Learning & Individual Differences | EDPT 502 | 3 Units

Examine theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.

Career Counseling & Development | EDUC 547 | 3 Units or Focus Course

Examine the career development process; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life. (EDUC 547 required if not completed in previous Fall).

Summer Session

Research Methods | EDUC 570 | 3 Units

Understand basic qualitative and quantitative inquiry methods and their appropriateness for addressing different research questions. Become familiar with research-related issues such as threats to validity.

Practicum | EDHP 587 | 1-3 Units

Practicum is an optional course for EC students who may be required to be enrolled in a practicum or internship course for a specific internship on or off campus.

Year 3

Fall Semester

Master’s Seminar or Thesis | EDHP 593A/594A | 2 Units

Counseling as an Act of Love | EDCO 543 | 3 Units

Explore the concept of love as an action and its relationship to humanizing education and, specifically counseling, as professional practice. Further, culture and identity is examined as significant elements in the process of humanizing education.

Spring Semester

Masters Seminar or Thesis | EDHP 593A/594B | 2 Units

Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling | EDCO 503 | 3 Units

Examine current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in the practice of counseling and psychology.


Program Contact

Beverly V. Yanuaria, ME

Assistant Director, Office of Admission and Scholarships

yanuaria@rossier.usc.edu (213) 821-5843