The Profession of Counseling 3 hours. This course helps the student begin establishing professional identity as a counselor. Areas explored include professional roles, settings, functions, goals and objectives, organizations, history, ethics, and credentialing. Top ED 516 Principles of Counseling 3 hours. This course focuses on teaching students the process and theories of counseling.
Students also spend time practicing skills directly related to the helping process.
Top ED 520 Career Development and Life Planning 3 hours. Students learn how career development theories, occupational and educational information, vocational tests, sociological and economic factors, and family dynamics all relate in helping their clients to make career and life style career decisions. Students also spend time practicing skills directly related to career counseling. Top ED 521 Contemporary Issues in Agency Counseling 3 hours. This course focuses on contemporary issues facing counselors in a variety of counseling agencies.