Course Schedule
The Master of Education in Educational Counseling program requires 48 units and offers both full-time and part-time options. The full-time schedule requires three to four courses per semester over five semesters. The part-time schedule requires two to three courses per semester over eight semesters. The course schedule below should be used as an example. Contact your admissions representative to discuss your specific course schedule.
Classes begin the week of August 22, 2022 |
Sample Schedule
Full-time
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 Semester
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.
EDHP 593A | (2 units)
Masters Seminar
OR
EDHP 594A | (2 units)
Thesis
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.
EDHP 593B | (2 units)
Masters Seminar
OR
EDHP 594B | (2 units)
Thesis
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.
Part-time
Year 1
Fall Semester
- EDUC 508 | (2 units) | Interrogating Systems of Inequity in Professional Practice
- EDUC 500 | (3 units) | The Counseling Process
- EDHP 500 | (3 units) | Foundations in Higher Education
Spring Semester
- EDUC 541 | (3 units) | Theories in Counseling
- EDHP 552 | (3 units) | Politics of Difference
Summer Semester
- EDUC 570 | (3 units) | Research Methods & Data Analysis for Practitioners
- EDUC 637 | (3 units) | Group Counseling: Theory & Process
Year 2
Fall Semester
- EDHP 687 | (3 units) | Student Development Theory
- EDUC 609 | (3 units) | Academic Advising in Postsecondary Education
Spring Semester
- EDPT 502 | (3 units) | Learning and Individual Differences
- EDUC 547 | (3 units) | Career Development: Theory & Process
Summer Semester
- EDHP 587 | (1 units) | Field Work in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education
Year 3
Fall Semester
- EDUC 611 | (3 units) | Equity in College and Career Access
- EDCO 503 | (3 units) | Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling
- EDHP 593A | (2 units) | Master’s Seminar or Thesis
Spring Semester
- EDHP 580 | (3 units) | The Community College
- EDHP 587 | (2 units) | Field Work in Higher, Adult, and Professional Education
- EDHP 593B | (2 units) | Master’s Seminar or Thesis