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Program Objectives
  • Objective 1 (Advanced Practice):
    Students can critically examine, integrate, and apply advanced counseling theories and techniques across individual and group settings, with a focus on culturally sustaining practices and ethical considerations by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.
     
  • Objective 2 (Supervision):
    Students can cultivate theoretical knowledge and practical experience needed to provide effective counseling supervision, including the development of a personal supervisory style, assessment of supervisees, and management of ethical and legal responsibilities in diverse settings by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.
     
  • Objective 3 (Teaching):
     Students can become effective counselor educators through mastery of adult learning theories, curriculum design, instructional methods, and culturally responsive teaching practices, while emphasizing the role of mentoring and assessment of student learning and dispositions by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.
     
  • Objective 4 (Leadership and Advocacy):
    Students can develop abilities to assume leadership roles within counselor education programs, professional organizations, and advocacy efforts; this includes understanding accreditation processes, responding to sociopolitical issues, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership practices by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.
     
  • Objective 5 (Research):
    Students can engage in rigorous research using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.; emphasizing the development of professional writing, conference presentations, grant writing, and ethical research practices that contribute to the counseling profession's knowledge base by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.
     
  • Objective 6 (Ethical Practice and Social Justice):
    Students can understand and apply ethical standards across all aspects of counselor education, including teaching, supervision, research, leadership, and clinical practice. Additionally, enhance the delivery of counseling services and educational practices by fostering a commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice in all professional activities by scoring 80% or higher on aligned KPI assignments.