The following courses are required for all MA Counseling majors and a brief description of each is provided.

CEP 860A Perspectives in Multicultural Counseling (3 cr) This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the skills, techniques, and information necessary to become competent in engaging in cross-cultural interaction. Students will be encouraged to develop self-awareness of culture as well as awareness of many other cultures. Learning is achieved via lecture, readings, and interactive practice. Special attention is given to assisting students in discussing and exploring challenging issues and concerns within the area of multicultural counseling and theory.

CEP 861 Counseling Theory, Philosophy, and Ethics (3 cr) This course is designed as a lecture/discussion course to provide students with an overview of historical and current theories of counseling. Students will also review the foundations of ethical decision-making, professional ethical standards, and codes of conduct.

CEP 862 Intro to Individual and Group Counseling (3 cr) This introductory course provides intensive exposure to general principles and specific skills used by a counselor in both individual and group counseling. Reading, discussion, and extensive directed practice both in and out of class are emphasized throughout. This course is an essential prerequisite to CEP 863 (Consulting Models and Strategies).

CEP 863 Counseling and Consulting Models and Strategies (3 cr) This course addresses ways in which a counselor provides help to clientele. As a counselor, help is provided directly to the person or persons needing help. As a consultant the counselor provides help indirectly through work with parents, teachers, and others. This course covers both counseling and consultation approaches that have empirical support and the research basis of that support. The focus of the course is on helping children, adolescents, and adults to learn new responses to personal problems, alter debilitating cognitions and self-perceptions, develop more effective social skills, reduce destructive emotional responses, and become better personal problem solvers. Each phase of the counseling/consulting process is covered: building the helping relationship, assessing problems, setting goals, identifying necessary changes, planning treatments, motivating goal-directed efforts, and evaluating outcomes.

CEP 864 Career Counseling (3 cr) This course is designed to help students link theory to practice in career counseling through the development of understanding, appreciation, and skills for facilitating successful career development in schools, rehabilitation, and community settings. Students will also learn about the unique needs of diverse populations. Learning is achieved through lectures, readings, and experiential activities such as simulated interviews, assessment completion and interpretation, and occupational exploration and interpretation. Upon completion of this course, students should have an understanding of the complexity of career counseling and should have developed preliminary career counseling skills.

CEP 821 Measurement and Eval for Counseling and Dev. (3 cr) This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the types of assessments counselors need to be familiar with as professionals. The first portion of the course is an overview of some basic measurement principles including some very basic descriptive statistics, types of derived scores, and the important measurement concepts of reliability and validity. The remainder of the course is an overview of various types of assessment instruments, including aptitude and achievement tests, interest inventories, personality inventories, and attitude scales. Attention is given to how and when to use the various instruments.

CEP 894C Counseling Practicum (6 cr) This is the first field experience with "real" clients that MA counseling majors have. Each is assigned to an office or agency within driving distance of campus for work in the field setting of 10-12 hours per week for a Fall semester (15 weeks). Concurrent with the practice and supervision received in the field setting, each practicum student meets weekly with the faculty supervisor as a member of a small practicum group. During these meetings common issues are discussed, tapes are critiqued, ethical issues are reviewed and discussed, and readings are used to address special topics. In addition, each student will have an individual weekly appointment with a department supervisor to review cases, determine approaches to working with each client, and evaluate counseling effectiveness. More detailed information is presented in the Student Handbook.

CEP 893C Counseling Internship (12 cr) Completion of CEP 894C (Counseling Practicum) is a prerequisite for the Counseling Internship. The internship is an intensive 15-week experience in a field setting. Emphasis is placed upon having a wide range of counseling experience within the field setting, including some or all of the following: learning about procedure and practices of the setting, counseling with individuals, counseling with groups, preparation for counseling sessions, preparation for supervisory sessions, general work of the agency or office, and learning opportunities (staff meetings, guest presentations) found within the setting. More detailed information is presented in the Student Handbook.