COED 616: Cultural and Diversity Counseling
Prerequisites: COED 610, COED 611
Credit Hours: (3)
This course is designed to provide an overview of human behavior including human diversity and cultural pluralism. Multicultural theories and models of counseling and consulting will be presented and examined. Students also experience multicultural relationship differences.
Detailed Description of Content
1. Human Growth and Development: The Impact of Cultural Variables on Individual Development
2. Ethnocentrism, Racism and Cultural Adjustment: Human Behavior and the Social Environment
3. An Overview of the Helping Processes of Guidance, Counseling and Psychotherapy
in a Multicultural Society
4. Awareness of Personal Multicultural Assumptions, Knowledge and Skills:
5. Knowledge of Multicultural Information
6. Special Problems in Multicultural Counseling and Development
7. Ethical Issues in Multicultural Counseling
8. Final Examination
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
Lecture, individual projects, videotape materials, and small group activities including simulation and role play.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
The course is a didactic and experiential course to promote an understanding of one's personal values and attitudes in the context of a therapeutic counseling relationship with clients from diverse backgrounds. The course also explores theory, concepts, and models of human behavior and the helping process within a context of multicultural diversity in a pluralistic society. The course's purpose is to aid students in becoming knowledgeable and thoughtful about multicultural aspects of the helping process and to be skillful in the art and science of counseling culturally diverse populations.
Assessment Measures
Course grades will be determined according to evaluated performance on the following criteria and assignments:
1. Class Participation 40%
2. Research Paper 30%
3. Final Examination 30%
Other Course Information
None
Review and Approval
April 1999 Revised