Program prepares students to counsel and assist people who are making work-related decisions and transitions. The program's interdisciplinary approach combines a solid background in work and societal issues, labor market analysis, and job search strategies with vocational assessment and career counseling techniques. Some courses are available through the Global Education Link, the University's distance learning program. Program emphasizes leadership development and managing organizational change using the conceptual framework of developing learning organizations through systems thinking, team learning, and personal mastery. This program, structured in cohort groups, meets one weekend per month and enables students to put theories they are learning in the classroom into practice.
Students explore the dynamics of interpersonal communication and team development.
This degree emphasizes marriage, family, and child counseling. The curriculum provides in-depth knowledge of systemic and individual approaches to treatment through a combination of experiential learning, theory, and fieldwork. Optional specializations are available in addiction studies, child and adolescent therapy, couple and family therapy, conflict resolution, cross-cultural counseling, expressive arts therapy, and sport psychology. This program is designed for individuals seeking the highest level of training to become applied clinical psychologists. It prepares graduates for multiple roles that contemporary psychologists must fill to competently serve their communities.