Educational Counseling 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.
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
Theory, research, and practice of psychological counseling.
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
Love is explored as a guiding force in educational counseling towards movements of equity and social justice.
Career Counseling and Development: Theory and Process
EDUC 547 or Focus Course | 3 units
Examine the career development process; principles of career and leisure planning and counseling applicable throughout life.
CHOOSE ONE COURSE
Masters Seminar or Thesis
EDHP 593A/594B | 2 units
An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus.
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
Masters Seminar or Thesis
EDHP 593A/594B | 2 units
An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus.
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 fieldwork.
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
Theory, research, and practice of psychological counseling.
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 or Focus Course | 3 units
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 or Focus Course
EDUC 547 | 3 Units
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
An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus.
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
An examination and analysis of research and literature in the student’s area of focus.
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.
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Applicants are automatically considered for limited, merit-based scholarships ranging from $15,000 to $30,000.
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Beverly V. Yanuaria, ME
Assistant Director, Office of Admission and Scholarships