Courses Taught

ED 430 College Retention: Theory, Research, and Practice
This course introduces students to salient research, theory, and practice related to college student retention. Students will explore cultural, institutional, and individual factors that contribute to college student attrition and critically review theories attempting to explain the student departure process. Effective retention practices, programs, and assessment procedures will also be identified and examined.

EDU 460 Counseling Theory and Practice I
The course is designed to develop students' basic counseling and crisis intervention skills. Class meetings will be primarily experiential. In small groups, students will practice basic counseling skills, discuss and role play counseling and crisis intervention strategies, and present their own practice sessions for discussion.

EDU 460 Counseling Theory and Practice II
This course will introduce students to the major theories of counseling, such as psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, and systems perspectives. The historical development and views of human nature for each theory will be addressed, as well as the counselor's role in facilitating client change. Students will also be introduced to various professional issues related to the field of counseling, such as professional organizations, licensure, counseling ethics, and multicultural competence and awareness.

ED 483 Counseling and Communication Skills for Teachers, Administrators and other Helping Professions
This course introduces the educating or allied helping professional to the basic skills and core perspectives of counseling as a form of communication. The intent of this course is for students to examine dyadic and small group communication to assist them in facilitating effective interpersonal interactions. The course combines experiential learning with group discussion, participant observation, and mini-lecture. Topics include the contextual characteristics, processes and practices of facilitation; varieties of helping mediated by communication; differences in working with individuals or small groups; understanding and negotiating group conflict; cultural dimensions of communication; leadership processes; and collaboration across professional contexts.

EDU 553 Counselor Supervision
The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of theory, research, and practice in clinical supervision. The course will help students develop the requisite skills necessary to become effective supervisors of counselor trainees and professional counselors.