This course is designed for students and professionals from a variety of community, educational, and vocational settings who require competency in assessment and appraisal, and in using data to make appropriate counseling, evaluation, and research decisions. Students taking this course will learn how to properly select, develop, administer, and interpret standardized/non-standardized measures, how to appropriately collect, manage and use data, and how to conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using Excel and SPSS in order to verify the reliability and validity of measures and make data based decisions. The role gender, culture and development play in test bias and ethical decision making will also be discussed. Prerequisite: EPY 500 or CSL 505. Spring, Summer.
Cross-listed w/ EPY 529-X1. Online asynchronous.
Graduate Courses
Course Delivery DEFINITIONS:
- Online Courses: In online teaching, 100% of instruction takes place online via Canvas and with supplemental platforms like Zoom. There are two types of online courses: asynchronous and synchronous.
- Asynchronous online: Course is fully online, with lessons, assignments, and activities posted in Canvas with due dates. Students complete coursework, engage in discussions, etc., based upon their own schedules, but are required to meet posted deadlines.
- Synchronous online: Online course that includes real-time class meetings using technology (e.g. Zoom). The number of required meetings varies based upon the particular class, but meetings take place during the scheduled class times. Faculty will inform students of the schedule for real-time meetings in their courses.
- Hybrid Courses: Hybrid courses combine both in-person, on-campus meetings with online instruction. All face-to-face activities take place during the regularly-scheduled meeting times in the rooms assigned on the course listing. The number of in-person meetings varies by course. Faculty will notify students of the exact meeting schedule for their courses.
If your class is not listed as online or hybrid, it will meet fully face-to-face following the noted class schedule.
This course will focus on the theory and skills associated with facilitating groups in a variety of school and community settings. Counselors may work in a variety of settings in which they may be in the role of group facilitator, group counselor, group member or consultant. This course will provide a theoretical understanding of group dynamics and the techniques associated with the application of these principals to practical situations. The course includes the opportunity for students to participate in a small experiential group experience. Fall, Summer.
Face-to-face course.
This course will focus on the theory and skills associated with facilitating groups in a variety of school and community settings. Counselors may work in a variety of settings in which they may be in the role of group facilitator, group counselor, group member or consultant. This course will provide a theoretical understanding of group dynamics and the techniques associated with the application of these principals to practical situations. The course includes the opportunity for students to participate in a small experiential group experience. Fall, Summer.
CSL students ONLY; Face-to-Face course. Cross-listed with CSL 553-X4.
This course will focus on the theory and skills associated with facilitating groups in a variety of school and community settings. Counselors may work in a variety of settings in which they may be in the role of group facilitator, group counselor, group member or consultant. This course will provide a theoretical understanding of group dynamics and the techniques associated with the application of these principals to practical situations. The course includes the opportunity for students to participate in a small experiential group experience. Fall, Summer.
SPY students ONLY; Face-to-Face course; Cross-listed w/CSL 553-X3
This 300-hour structured internship will give students hands on experience doing professional counseling in a school-based setting under the supervision of a cooperating, experienced professional school counselor and faculty liaison. Students will achieve continued growth towards becoming ethical and competent professionals with a focus on performing the services of a professional school counselor as leaders and change advocates. A return to campus for weekly supervision in seminar is a requirement of this course. Three hundred hours of experience are required for three credits, with at least 120 of these being direct contact hours. Pre-requisite: CSL 593. Summer.
Meets online Tuesdays.
This 300-hour structured internship will give students hands on experience doing professional counseling in a school-based setting under the supervision of a cooperating, experienced professional school counselor and faculty liaison. Students will achieve continued growth towards becoming ethical and competent professionals with a focus on performing the services of a professional school counselor as leaders and change advocates. A return to campus for weekly supervision in seminar is a requirement of this course. Three hundred hours of experience are required for three credits, with at least 120 of these being direct contact hours. Pre-requisite: CSL 593. Summer.
Meets online Tuesdays.
This seminar is intended to allow in-depth coverage of topics and issues in current counseling theory and practice. Institute topics will be based on faculty and student interest. This is an elective designation. Offered occasionally.
Hybrid.
Independent Study Application and Permission of faculty advisor required.