7C:203 Career Guidance & Job Placement (3 sh)

This course prepares counselors and student affairs professionals to help people learn about, decide upon, and enter, work roles. Topics covered include career development concepts and theories, work environments, career guidance goals and objectives, exemplary methods and materials, and assessment procedures.

7B:206 Research Process & Design (3 sh)

This course introduces research in education by surveying topics such as research designs, critiquing and choosing appropriate measures, selecting qualitative and quantitative methods, and evaluating journal articles.

7C:250 Multiculturalism in the Helping Professions (3 sh)

This course serves three purposes: (1) to increase self-awareness regarding diversity; (2) to expose students to literature related to multiculturalism in helping professions; and (3) to demonstrate application of theory and content to specific professional situations and settings.

7C:278 Microcounseling (3 sh)

This course covers the foundation skills of listening, responding, empathy, and focus, as well as the advanced skills of meaning, confrontation, reframing directives, and action skills. Course format includes lecture, video instruction, and small group practice sessions.

7C:330 Introduction to Student Services (3 sh)

This course deals with the development of the student affairs profession and emphasizes major literature in the field, legal and ethical issues, institutional mission and cultures, and the role of various student service functions.

7C:331 College Students and their Environments (3 sh)

This course provides an introduction to college students and their environments, including characteristics of college students and issues they face; students' institutional, social, and cultural environments, and the impact of environments on student learning and development.

7C:332 College Student Psychosocial & Identity Development (3 sh)

This course examines theoretical models of psychosocial and identity development in college students, and considers the application of these theories to student affairs administration. Pre-requisite: 7C:331 or equivalent.

7C:333 Practicum in Student Services (3-9 sh)

This seminar is taken concurrently with the student's practicum experience in an approved student affairs agency. May be repeated if the student desires additional practicum experiences. Prerequisite: 7C:278; Limited to students in the SDP MA program.

7C:334 College Student Learning & Cognitive Development (3 sh)

Introduces learning and development in college students; foci include theoretical models of learning, cognitive development, moral development and applications of theories to student affairs administration. Pre-requisite: 7C:331 or equivalent.

7C:335 Administration of Student Services (3 sh)

This course provides an introduction to issues and material in the areas of organizational theory and structures, leadership styles, budgeting, and other administrative issues. Pre-requisite: 7C:330 or equivalent.

7C:336 The Impact of College on Students (3 sh)

Introduction to literature on college impact; career and economic returns, values and attitudes, learning and cognitive development, assessment and methodological issues of studying college outcomes. (Pre-requisite: 07B:206 or equivalent)

7C:337 Administration Theory in Student Affairs (3 sh)

Issues and problems in student affairs administration; theories of organization, administration, and leadership. (pre-requisite: 07C:335 or equivalent)

7C:431 Doctoral Seminar: Research on College Students (3 sh)

College student learning and development, outcomes, persistence; emphasis on use of quantitative and qualitative research methods to study college student experiences, outcomes, and environments. (Pre-requisite: GPSA student and 07C:336 or equivalent)

7C:432 Doctoral Seminar: Student Affairs Practice (3 sh)

Institutional cultures, student affairs leadership, organizational structures. (pre-requisite: SAAR student and 07C:335 or equivalent)

7C:433 Doctoral Seminar: Current Issues in SA Administration (3 sh)

Critical and current issues in student affairs professional practice, including ethics, supervision, writing for publication, legal issues. (pre-requisite: doctoral status and 7C:335 or equivalent)

7B:100 Issues & Policies in Higher Education (3 sh)

This course provides a general survey of American postsecondary education, with emphasis on administration, evaluation, history, philosophy, curriculum and instruction.

7B:216 Finance and Economics of Higher Education (3 sh)

Research and issues related to public and private funding of education; costs, benefits, outcomes, resource management.

7B:218 The Law and Higher Education (3 sh)

The role of law as it affects postsecondary institutions; analysis of case law in specific areas of concern to administrators, faculty, staff, students.

7B:220 History & Philosophy of Post-Secondary Education (3 sh)

This course examines major themes and developments in American higher education; ideologies, people, and movements that have influenced those developments.