This comprehensive examination requires a doctoral portfolio and presentation of the students professional identity development, along with the five core areas of counselor education: teaching, research, leadership and advocacy, supervision, and advanced practice. The doctoral portfolio should be provided to all comprehensive examination committee members a minimum of two weeks prior to the formal oral presentation.

This course provides independent reading and/or research, at the post-master degree level, under the direction of a faculty member. Refer to the academic policy section for independent study policy. May be repeated for credit.

This course focuses on research ethics and recent trends in research in the field of counseling. Emphasis is placed on the practice of reading and critiquing research in the field, understanding strategies for publishing in counseling journals, conducting ethical research, and completing a dissertation proposal. Prerequisites: 710, 712.

Supports and guides students in the development and completion of their dissertation. This is a relevant scholarly contribution, designed and conducted under the supervision of a research committee. Dissertation credits are taken over three semesters. Prerequisites: 770, 794.

Studies major theories and cultural discourses utilized by supervisors, counselors, and clients, with an emphasis on understandings of problem formation and change. Assumptions about normal behavior and pathology will be examined, and theories will be compared for their applicability to a variety of client groups, community needs, presenting problems, and practice settings. Provides an overview of the theories and research pertaining to group leadership, composition, selection, intervention, termination, evaluation, and follow-up. Students develop a written description of their group counseling approach and have concurrent supervised group counseling experiences.

This asynchronous course module provides an overview of graduate-level academic writing expectations and guidelines. The module focuses largely on the most recent version of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), with the purpose of equipping students to research, present, and write their own scholarship, in addition to evaluating and providing others feedback. Graded CR/NC.

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, conduct and analyze quantitative research. Specifically, this course develops students quantitative skills to apply appropriate statistical methods to answer research questions. Topics include hypothesis testing, nonparametric methods, analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis.

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills necessary to develop, conduct and analyze qualitative research. Specifically, this course develops students skills in analyzing verbal and written qualitative data. Topics include using phenomenological approaches, grounded theory, content analysis, ethnographic and consensual qualitative analysis.

This course focuses on research ethics and recent trends in research in the field of counseling. Emphasis is placed on the practice of reading and critiquing research in the field, understanding strategies for publishing in counseling journals, conducting ethical research, and completing a dissertation proposal. Prerequisite: 710, 712.

Provides an overview of the theories of supervision, as well as examines supervisory roles, professional development benchmarks, evaluation methods, approaches to consultation, and legal and ethical issues. Emphasis is directed toward knowledge, attitude and skill development.