Courses
MPH 522 ACTIVE LIVING AND POPULATION HEALTH PROMOTION 3.0 Credit(s)
Using an ecological approach, students will examine the significance of active living in promoting population health and preventing chronic diseases. Students will learn both the theoretical foundations and evidence-based strategies for promoting active living and reducing sedentary behavior across a variety of populations and settings.
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
MPH 526 COMMUNITY HEALTH IN TIMES OF CRISIS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course seeks to familiarize students with the field of disaster and international humanitarian studies, trends and recent developments in the field, and strategies to improve disaster resilience. This course builds basic concepts and tools that will prepare students for work in disaster and/or humanitarian studies. Students will learn to articulate concepts about disasters and the changing patterns of disasters, disaster resilience and international humanitarian response. They will develop a broad view of the key organizations involved in and components of the domestic and international humanitarian response system.
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
MPH 528 Food, Nutrition & Population Health 3.0 Credit(s)
Nutrition is a key determinant of population health. The course explores how social identity and cultural values influence food security, health disparities, and risk for disease. Health promotion and disease prevention are relevant to many disciplines and in several areas. During the course, students will apply principles of translational epidemiology in various public health settings. Finally, by the end of this course, students will have a deeper understanding of which population groups in the U.S. require assistance from nutritional programs, what these programs are, and how they operate.
Offered: Fall Semester Contact Department
CM 557 ADVANCED EDITING: SPORT MEDIA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will train students in the tools necessary to edit digital audio, video as well as examine the construction of stories and messages in sports media.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
SW 588 PROGRAM & NON-PROFIT LEADERHIP 3.0 Credit(s)
The course is designed to help students understand how non-profits function and exercise leadership in society and how to exercise leadership within the context of these organizations.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
SW 592 RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will learn how to carry out common types of evaluation typically implemented in practice, including needs assessments, single system design and program evaluation Prerequisite: Take SW-590
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
SLP 535 CULTURAL LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY 1.0 Credit(s)
This course will expose students to different cultural traditions to gain a deeper understanding of their interactions in clinical settings in an increasingly global world.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
COU 500 INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNSELING PROFESSION & INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course serves as an orientation to the MA of Clinical Mental Health program; personal growth experiences in the program; the counseling profession; ethical and legal issues, counseling process, skills and theories; professional counselor roles, functions and work settings; and historical foundations of counseling. The course covers history, philosophy, and trends in clinical mental health counseling; roles, responsibilities of counselors; knowledge of clinical mental health settings; legal, ethical issues, policies, laws, and legislation pertinent to counseling. Students will learn basic information about national standards, certification, and licensure requirements.
Offered: Modules Odd Semesters All Years
COU 510 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview, to clinical mental health counseling students, of the theories, concepts, and research regarding the developmental characteristics of human development. The course will enhance students' understanding of significant developmental changes that occur over the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on human development throughout the life span, including emotional, physical, cognitive, and social development with an emphasis on the influences of cultural phenomena on behavior. The course will involve critiques of different theories of human development culture, lifespan processes, and the relationships among these. Professional, clinical, legal, and ethical issues will also be addressed.
Offered: Modules Odd Semesters All Years
COU 520 SKILLS IN HELPING RELATIONSHIPS - RESIDENCY I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course facilitates the development of individual counseling skills in clinical mental health counseling students. It serves to introduce students to the basic microskills/helping skills and assist them learn how to utilize and apply these counseling skills. The goal of this course is to present the basic skills and techniques that form the foundation of the counseling process. A focus of the course is the development of counselors that will become effective agents of change through therapeutic relationships. This course facilitates self-development related to one's ability to relate to and connect with others and we will emphasize personal growth and self-care throughout the course. The course will involve live, online skills practice, submission of recorded sessions of skills' practice for peer and instructor feedback, and a 1-week, on-ground live component.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer Sems All Years
COU 530 COUNSELING THEORIES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces clinical mental health counseling students to the seminal counseling theories and helping relationships from individual and systemic perspectives. The course incorporates theory, skills, and techniques in the development of a counselor identity, theoretical orientation. The course allows students to explore a variety of established theoretical orientations and examine them for personal congruence and applicability for client populations. The course explores helper and helpee characteristics, sociocultural factors, and legal and ethical considerations.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
COU 540 SOCIAL & CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed to promote development of a theoretical and practical framework, in clinical mental health counseling students, for effective delivery of clinical mental health services within the context of diversity and multiculturalism. In addition to exploring the effects cultural diversity has on the helping relationship, this course will examine the relationship that ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, minority status, aging, and disability plays in the delivery of clinical mental health services. Students will identify practice-based strategies that address cultural challenges to service delivery including the impact of individual prejudices and discrimination.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
COU 550 ASSESSMENT & ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is designed as a practical introduction, for clinical mental health counseling students, to testing and assessment as this course covers the basics in assessment. The course explores the theory and techniques of administering, scoring, and interpreting educational and psychological tests and includes test selection, administration, and the dynamics of test interpretation to enable the counselor to synthesize, integrate, and evaluate appraisal data for use in guidance and counseling. Topics include intelligence, achievement, neuropsychological assessment, objective and projective personality testing, and testing of ability, aptitude, and attitudes. The course is designed to enable students to become competent and critical readers of testing data and research, to improve their knowledge of referral options, and to integrate testing data in treatment planning and therapy. Prerequisite: TAKE COU-530
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years
COU 570 CAREER COUNSELING 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces clinical mental health counseling students to the theories and stages of career development will serve as the foundation for an exploration of life planning and career development. Career planning will be considered as a process of continuous self-assessment, careful selection, skill development, goal setting, and decision making. The course will examine career development from the dual perspective of personal development. Prerequisite: Take COU-550
Offered: All Semesters All Years
COU 560 PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS, & ADVANCED ASSESSMENTS 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is a study of abnormal human behavior and the principles of understanding dysfunction in human behavior or social disorganization. It is based on the DSM 5 and ICD-10 and is designed to provide an in-depth look at the etiology and diagnosis of psychological distress and psychopathology to clinical mental health counseling students. Students will become familiar with cultural diversity factors impacting diagnosis and assessment. Students will gain an understanding of the biological, neurological, psychosocial and physiological factors that affect human functioning, and behavior. The course allows for students to learn about and assess for mental disorders across the lifespan and include the biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors implicated in vulnerability and resilience. A focus is made on the "continuous assessment process" and advancing one's assessment skills. Prerequisite: Take COU-540 and COU-550
Offered: Modules All Semesters All Years