Sequence of Study
The sequence of study shown below is for full-time students. 60 units total.
In addition to classes, students are also required to work in different school sites immediately upon starting the program. With the help of a site supervisor, students are able to develop their counseling skills and focus on students' academic, personal/social, and career development.
Year 1: Summer (6 units)
Procedures for gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing information; reviewing the literature;
designing studies. Section selection to be made with department graduate adviser.
Comprehensive school counseling to include historical perspective of school counseling
policies, practices, future leadership directions, role and function of professional
school counselor leader. Current trends in school counseling.
Year 1: Fall (15 units)
Concepts underlying effective cross-cultural counseling practice and interpersonal
communication. Development of skills basic to practice of counseling, consultation,
and marriage-family therapy.
Development of self-understanding. Cross-cultural communication skills needed for
becoming an effective counselor. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits:
three units applicable to a master’s degree in counseling.
Counseling and marriage and family therapy theories and their impact on the practices
of counselors, school counselors, school psychologists, marriage-family therapists
and their clients. Approaches and applications for counseling and therapy. Research
on counseling and marriage and family therapy.
Implications of theory and research in behavioral sciences for the understanding of
human behavior.
Issues, insights, and techniques for improving effectiveness in working with culturally
diverse populations.
Supervised experience in counseling, school counseling, or school psychology. May
be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: nine units applicable to a master’s
degree in counseling.
Year 1: Spring (15 units)
Classroom management strategies and techniques. Curriculum design, lesson plan development,
assessment tools, and instructional strategies for delivering school counseling core
curriculum (academic, college/career, personal/social) in diverse schools.
Counseling theories, processes and approaches appropriate to children and adolescents
in multicultural school and community settings. Application of theories and research
for individual, group, family and larger systems interventions.
Group process, theories of group interaction, and group leadership techniques with
children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. Fulfills requirements for licensed
professional clinical counselor and marriage and family therapy licensure.
Supervised experience in counseling, school counseling, or school psychology. May
be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: nine units applicable to a master’s
degree in counseling.
Examination, design, implementation, and evaluation of wellness, prevention, intervention,
and other mental health programs at individual, group, and system levels in schools.
Focus on roles for school support personnel in promoting wellness and resiliency and
intervening in school settings.
Year 2 Fall (12 units)
College planning, career readiness, and career technical education P-16. Technology
promoting equity, access, and opportunity for culturally diverse populations to post
secondary options.
Consultation theory, process, and research for counselors and school psychologists.
Emphasis on mental health and problem- solving consultation in multicultural education
and mental health settings.
Application of concepts and procedures of counseling, school counseling, or school
psychology services in appropriate school or agency setting. Daily observation and
practice. Weekly seminar sessions with university staff. Application to take the course
must be made early during the preceding semester. May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree in counseling.
Policies and politics influencing education, school counselors, and students. Legal
mandates, ethical standards, practices of the school counseling profession, and how
to apply to educational and counseling situations.
Year 2: Spring (12 units)
Historical and current holistic school systems and role of professional school counselor.
Ecosystemic and social justice theory and models; practical implications for providing
school counseling services for individual students in multicultural schools.
Study of selected areas in counseling, marriage and family therapy, school counseling,
or school psychology culminating in a written project with emphasis on counseling
as a profession. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: nine units applicable
to a master’s degree.
Application of concepts and procedures of counseling, school counseling, or school
psychology services in appropriate school or agency setting. Daily observation and
practice. Weekly seminar sessions with university staff. Application to take the course
must be made early during the preceding semester. May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: six units applicable to a master’s degree in counseling.
Leadership, advocacy, systemic change theory, practice to disaggregate data, identify
equity, and access issues. Create student and systems interventions to target opportunity,
attainment, and achievement gaps in schools.