Overview
Web: Department of Counseling
School of Education, Business, and Human Services
Dr. Kendra Smith, Chair
Fowler Hall, Room 107A
The Department of Counseling offers graduate-level programs for the professional preparation of counseling specialists to work with deaf people. The department offers a small number of undergraduate-level courses.
No Undergraduate Major or Minor programs are offered.
Courses
COU 330 - Introduction to the Counseling Profession (3-4)
When taught for 3 credits, this course is designed to introduce undergraduate students to professional counseling work in a variety of settings, including those that serve deaf people. The course will provide students with in-depth knowledge of the counseling field. The work and roles of professional counselors will be examined. When taught for 4 credits and cross-listed with GSR 240, this course becomes an Integrated Learning Course that emphasizes the fifth Undergraduate Learning Outcome: Ethics and Social Responsibility. Thus, in addition to the course description for COU 330 for 3 credits, there is an additional focus on enabling students to make well-reasoned ethical judgments and to apply those judgments to promote social justice. The course will provide students with in-depth knowledge of the counseling field, including its ethics and social responsibilities.
Prerequisites: GSR 150
COU 351 - Techniques of Student Development: The Resident Advisor I (1)
This course focuses on the acquisition of the theoretical knowledge of student development and skills necessary in the provision of supervised care for children and young adults. In particular, students develop the skills necessary to function in the role of a resident advisor and begin to make application of these skills within the Student Life program of the University. This course is part of a sequence. A second semester course, COU 352, is required.
Prerequisites: Permission of the department chair
COU 352 - Techniques of Student Development: The Resident Advisor II (1)
This course, the second in the series, focuses on the application of the theoretical knowledge of student development and skills necessary in the provision of supervised care for children and young adults. In particular, students develop the skills necessary to function in the role of a resident advisor and make practical application of these skills within the Student Life program of the University.
Prerequisites: COU351; permission of the department chair
COU 395 - Special Topics (1-5)
Special topics in the discipline, designed primarily for juniors. Students may enroll in 395 Special Topics multiple times, as long as the topics differ.
