ME in Educational Counseling Courses

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

EDHP 593A Masters Seminar / 2 units or

OR

EDHP 594A Thesis  / 2 units

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

EDHP 593B Masters Seminar / 2 units

OR

EDHP 594B Thesis / 2 units

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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 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.

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.

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