The courses include self-exploration and skill acquisition regarding personal values, professional issues, personal and professional relationships, and group dynamics. The courses offer opportunities for development of cohesive relations between students through self-disclosure, empathic listening, feedback, and role play. Competent counseling practice is informed and guided by theory. The program track emphasizes thorough knowledge of individual and family development within social contexts. During counseling practica, students are closely supervised in their use of knowledge about families and family counseling theories.
Supervised practice continues and is expanded during internship.
Required courses in the curriculum are intended to be taken sequentially to optimize students' acquisition of knowledge, skills and personal development. Prerequisites are indicated by PRQ and the prerequisite course numbers in parentheses following the course. Because progress through the curriculum is dependent on students taking courses in sequence, it is important that students carefully plan their course of study with their advisor. It is necessary to take courses in summer, fall, and spring semesters.