General Counseling Studies (Non-Licensure)

Program Learning Outcomes

“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

Students majoring in General Counseling Studies (Non-Licensure) will:

1. Demonstrate competence in helping skills unique to forming and utilizing professional relationships in in a variety of settings, including community, faith-based, non-profits, and higher education.
    
2. Demonstrate knowledge, in the areas of including human growth and development, group work, ethics in counseling, crisis intervention, and multicultural awareness, in preparation for a career in the helping field.
    
3. Demonstrate ability to integrate theologically informed and spiritually sensitive interventions when appropriate and desired by those who are being served.

Getting Started

• COU 5001 - Orientation to Counselor Education and Student Portfolio 1 Credit Hours

Required Core Counseling Courses

• COU 5132 - Counseling Skills and Characteristics 2 Credit Hours
• COU 5413 - Foundations of Counseling 3 Credit Hours *
• COU 5003 - Human Growth and Development 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5113 - Group Theories and Practice 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5123 - Legal, Ethical, and Professional Standards 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5403 - Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5163 - Foundations of Crisis, Trauma, and Disaster Counseling 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5173 - Faith, Spirituality, and Counseling 3 Credit Hours

• * Students with Studies in Student Affairs and Higher education concentration will take COU 5773 Higher Education, Student Affairs, and College Student Experience: A Historical Perspective  

Concentration or Electives Approved by Advisor (6 Credit Hours)

  Six additional credit hours are required to complete the program of study.

• COU 5443 - Career Counseling and Development 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5403 - Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5103 - Counseling Theories and Techniques 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5173 - Faith, Spirituality, and Counseling 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5033 - Research and Program Evaluation 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5433 - Substance Abuse I: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5023 - Assessment and Testing 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5363 - Marriage Theory and Counseling Techniques 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5353 - Family Therapy Theory and Techniques 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5333 - Dynamics of Marriage and Family Systems 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5323 - Human Sexuality Theory and Counseling Techniques 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5233 - Psychosocial Issues of Childhood and Adolescence 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5243 - Conferring with Groups, Agencies, Teachers, and Parents 3 Credit Hours

Sequence of Courses:

The following courses must be taken in the first two semesters of the program:

• COU 5132 - Counseling Skills and Characteristics 2 Credit Hours
• COU 5413 - Foundations of Counseling 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5113 - Group Theories and Practice 3 Credit Hours
• COU 5003 - Human Growth and Development 3 Credit Hours

Sample Degree Plan

General Counseling Studies (Non-Licensure) Degree Plan