This course provides a supervised group experience for students completing hours in any of the following internships: advanced clinical, supervision, teaching, research, and/or leadership & advocacy. Depending on the internship focus of the semester, students will engage in a variety of different assignments designed to increase their skill and efficacy as clinicians, supervisors, teachers, scholars, and leaders. Students in this course will record and maintain hours in order to accrue 600 total hours of counselor education clinical internships across semesters. This course may be repeated for credit until the total intership hours is achieved and 6 credit hours completed. Consent of instructor required.

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.

Explores the intersection between teaching and learning theories as they relate to best practices for the clinical training of counselors across a variety of modalities, formats, and settings. The assessment of the skill level of counselors-in-training will also be explored. Prerequisite: 725.

Addresses issues in training supervisors, as well as evidence-based supervision practices. Focuses on the synthesis of the theories of supervision, including opportunities to provide culturally competent supervision to students in the Master of Science counseling programs. Prerequisite: 715.

Provides an advanced study of approaches to the appraisal of individual and groups within the helping process. Students will increase their knowledge and skills relative to the identification and utilization of standardized client assessment tools, as well as an examination of current practices in program development, implementation, and evaluation.

The focus of this course builds on the foundational ethical knowledge and examines a range of contemporary ethical issues in counseling and the intersectionality with the legal system. Ethical decision making models and the development of ethical responsibility within professional practice will be explored.

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.