COUN 600 Research & Program Evaluation

This course specifically designed for counseling education, will discuss the topics that are relevent to intelligently laying a solid groundwork of creating, consuming, and evaluationg research in a graduate program and for professional counselor’s post-graduation continuing education. The students will learn the basics of research, including formulating a problem, completing a literature review, selecting a design, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting results in APA format. Topics will include a broad range of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods designs, as well as action research and program evaluation, pertaining to types of research used in the field of professional counseling.