Courses
Course Schedule
The full-time course schedule below should be used as an example. A part-time option is also available. Contact your admission representative to discuss your specific course schedule.
Year 1
Fall Semester
Interrogating Systems of Inequity in Professional Practice
Examine yourself and the field of professional practice in the context of achieving equity.
The Counseling Process
Understand the theoretical foundations, models, values, and assumptions underlying psychological counseling; cross-cultural perspectives, ethical and legal considerations.
Academic Advising in Postsecondary Education
Gain awareness of historical and theoretical perspectives that relate to academic advising, and a better understanding of how academic advising “works” in practice. Build knowledge of academic advising for organizational systems and structures
Foundations of Higher, Adult, and Professional Education
Explore contemporary issues in higher, adult, and professional education in the United States and offers analytic perspectives from disciplines including history, philosophy, and sociology with implications for policy and practice in higher education.
Spring Semester
Theories in Counseling
Understand theory, research, and practice of psychological counseling.
Politics of Difference
Examine strategies for restructuring institutions of higher education to improve student support and achievement among historically underserved groups.
Learning and Individual Differences
Examine theory and research in learning, development, and individual differences, and social psychology related to education or training contexts.
Summer Session
Research Methods & Data Analysis
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: Theory and Process
Understand theory, research, and practice of group counseling, including laboratory experience.
Fieldwork in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education
Participate in structured supervised teaching or administrative activities. Assignments will be matched to your goals, training, and experience.
Year 2
Fall Semester
Student Development Theory
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.
Equity in College and Career Access
Focus on College and Career Readiness using an equity lens with a foundation in the relevant theories, conceptual frameworks and issues.
Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling
Examine current legal, ethical, and other professional issues in the practice of counseling and psychotherapy.
CHOOSE ONE COURSE
Masters Seminar EDHP 593A / 2 units
OR
Thesis EDHP 594A / 2 units
Spring Semester
Career Development: Theory & Process
Examine the career development process; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life.
The Community College
Examine the community college movement and history, curriculum, and types of administrative structures, community college goals, the relationship to secondary and post-secondary educational institutions, faculty and student profiles.
CHOOSE ONE COURSE
Masters Seminar EDHP 593B / 2 units
OR
Thesis EDHP 594B / 2 units
Fieldwork in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education
Participate in structured supervised teaching or administrative activities. Assignments will be matched to your goals, training, and experience.