Graduate Course Descriptions

This course will explore various biometric measurements and physiological monitoring systems that are used in athletic and healthcare settings. Through a semester long project, students will assess patient/client status, develop a corrective exercise program, and monitor the individual throughout the program. The course will explore topics of identify and correcting muscle imbalances and movement patterns, ethics, and new technologies will be presented.

Selected topics in athletic training and healthcare will be presented. Topics will rotate based on current issues and student and/or faculty interest. (Course fee may apply). Students will choose from ATP 651 (1 credit), ATP 652 (2 credits), and ATP 653 (3 credits) to meet this requirement.

Selected topics in athletic training and healthcare will be presented. Topics will rotate based on current issues and student and/or faculty interest. (Course fee may apply.) Students will choose from ATP 651 (1 credit), ATP 652 (2 credits), and ATP 653 (3 credits) to meet this requirement.

Selected topics in athletic training and healthcare will be presented. Topics will rotate based on current issues and student and/or faculty interest. (Course fees may apply.) Students will choose from ATP 651 (1 credit), ATP 652 (2 credits), and ATP 653 (3 credits) to meet this requirement.

Special topics courses in psychology. See course listing each semester for specific titles and descriptions.

A culminating experience which reflects the student’s synthesis and integration of knowledge. All students pursuing the M.A. degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling are required to sit for the Comprehensive Examination. In order to be eligible to take the Comprehensive Examination, the student must secure the chair’s approval and have completed the following requirements as described in catalog.

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.

This course is designed to provide an understanding, and use of, the fundamental techniques of helping processes. The course emphasizes the development of effective relationship building skills as well as the practice of action oriented approaches that facilitate client growth and change. Counselor and client characteristics, relationship variables, and external factors (e.g., societal and environmental) that influence the helping process will be addressed. Topics include legal and ethical issues; working with culturally diverse clients; basic helping skills; establishing a therapeutic alliance, and problematic clinical situations.

The Counseling Theories course provides students with knowledge of the most current major counseling theories that can be applied to Clinical Mental Health Counseling clients. The basic theory, principles and techniques of counseling and its application to professional counseling settings are explained. Students will begin to develop their own personal style of helping.

This course will provide an overview of small group behavior, development, and hands on experience in a small group. There will be two components to the group course; first, students will engage in didactic learning where group content will be provided and discussed; second, students will directly engage in experiential learning as both a member of and a leader of small group experiences. Specifically, the content overview will include focusing on stages of small group development, therapeutic factors, roles of group members, counselor interventions, effective group management, diversity, and ethical and legal issues specific to group work. The experiential component of class will provide students with direct experience as small group participants for a minimum of 10 clock hours over the course.