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PUBP 606 - Benefit-Cost Analysis
Spring Credits: 3 Stafford. Note: PUBP 605 and PUBP 651 may be taken instead of PUBP 606
This course examines basic concepts and techniques involved with benefit-cost analysis. This approach will be applied to a variety of public policy issues and programs. Topics include: choice of discount rate, treatment of income distribution, intergovernmental grants, tax expenditures, regulation, and program evaluation.
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PUBP 607 - Law and Public Policy
Fall Credits: 3 Byrne, Staff.
Law and Public Policy examines the role of the judiciary as a policy-making institution, including its interactions with legislative, regulatory, and private-sector entities. Students analyze several cases currently before the United States Supreme Court and, through the prism of those cases and other readings, explore the concepts of judicial review, separation of powers, and federalism, and also external influences on law-making bodies, including lobbying, public opinion, and the media. Sections will focus either on the U.S. Legal System or Comparative Legal Systems.
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PUBP 608 - Budget Policy-Making
Fall Credits: 3 Gilmour, Howard.
An introduction to public budgeting at the national, state, and local levels, presented from three perspectives: macroeconomics, political science, and public administration. Emphasis is also given to the budgetary strategies employed by bureaucrats, politicians, and interest group representatives as they pursue their policy agendas.
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PUBP 609 - Ethics and Public Policy
Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
This course examines the ethical dimensions of domestic and international policy problems. It contrasts moral policy-assessment with economic, legal and political analysis; outlines a policy-making procedure that includes moral assessment; considers a code of professional ethics.
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PUBP 610 - Policy Research Seminar
Fall Credits: 3 Gilmour.
This one semester research and writing intensive seminar involves both the further development of policy research skills and communication skills relevant to policy-making. Students will be involved in small-group, client-driven policy analysis projects and an individual project. In addition, students will analyze at least one quick-turnaround policy problem.
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PUBP 612 - Public Management and Organizational Behavior
Fall Credits: 3 Staff.
An examination of the ways in which public organizations and their leaders cope with the policy and management challenges that confront administrative agencies in a democratic society. Theoretical literature as well as case studies will be utilized.
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PUBP 613 - Non-Profit Management
Spring Credits: (3) Joosse.
An examination of policy environment, funding constraints, and other management issues facing non-profit organizations and their leaders. Theoretical literature as well as case studies will be utilized.
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PUBP 614 - Topics in Public Policy
Fall and Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
Topics change each semester. Please consult the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy web site for the current listing of topics offered. This course may be repeated for credit if there is no duplication of topic.
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PUBP 615 - Cross Section Econometrics
Fall Credits: 3 Hicks. Prerequisite(s): PUBP 603 .
Economic data often come as a cross-section of data points, frequently collected as part of a sample survey. The nature of these data calls for the use of a specialized set of tools, which will be developed in the course. Among the models to be examined are discrete, censored and truncated dependent variable, sample selectivity and duration models. Hands-on analysis of data sets will feature prominently.
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PUBP 616 - Time Series Econometrics
Spring Credits: 3 Moody. Prerequisite(s): PUBP 603 .
This course is an introduction to the econometric analysis of time series data. Topics include ARIMA models, forecasting, analysis of nonstationary series, unit root tests, co-integration and principles of modeling.
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PUBP 617 - Survey Methodology
Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
An introduction to the formulation, implementation and analysis of political and public policy surveys. Topics to be covered include the psychology of the survey response, sampling, interviewing, focus groups, experimental design, hypothesis testing and data analysis. Students will carry out individually designed and group designed surveys, and write papers and reports around these projects.
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PUBP 620 - Regulation of Markets
Spring Credits: 3 Parman, Stafford.
An in-depth study of government intervention in markets. Principal focus on characteristics and effects of rules and institutions governing markets and the definition of areas of market failure. Topics include: regulation of monopoly, antitrust enforcement, and regulation of spill-overs.
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PUBP 621 - Administrative Law
Fall Credits: 3 Devins.
A study of practice in the administrative process, examining the procedures for administrative adjudication and rulemaking; legislative and judicial control of administrative action; and public access to governmental processes and information. Cross-listed with [LAW 453 ]
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PUBP 622 - Environmental Policy
Fall Credits: 3 Hicks.
This course explores policy making for environmental problems and focuses on issues that are local, national, and international. This course will cover the application of welfare economics to environmental problems. Topics include differences in consumer surplus and other measures of economic welfare and techniques to measure the economic value of environmental resources. We examine national environmental policy, and how that policy is implemented at a local and regional level. We examine the U.S. laws and regulations as well as each agency’s approach for quantitatively assessing the benefits and costs of environmental policy.
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PUBP 623 - Health Care Policy
Fall Credits: 3 Rossiter, Mellor.
The application of microeconomic theory, quantitative analysis, and policy evaluation to the health care delivery and financing systems. Coverage includes the economic dimensions of health care, health status, medical manpower, hospitals and other institutional providers, third party financing, quality assessment, systematic analysis, and national health policies.
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PUBP 624 - Law and Medicine Seminar
Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
A study of medical jurisprudence and hospital law focusing on medical malpractice and tort law reform and contemporary problems including the regulation of health care delivery systems, access to health care, and antitrust challenges. Cross-listed with [LAW 518]
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PUBP 626 - Law and Resource Management
Spring Credits: 3 Taylor.
An interdisciplinary course designed to examine the interrelationships between scientific and legal concepts. Issues, legislation, and institutions associated with coastal zone management, outer continental shelf development, fisheries, and other questions related to marine resource management will be examined. Cross-listed with [MSCI 543]
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PUBP 627 - Law, Policy and Environment
Spring Credits: 3 Malone.
A study of the environmental policy-making process. Topics include: ecological and economic foundations of environmentalism, traditional institutional responses, the policy-making process in the context of our legal system, constitutional questions raised by judicial and agency involvement, and economic, political and ethical concerns raised by different theories of environmental decision-making. Cross-listed with [LAW 439]
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PUBP 628 - Environmental Law
Spring Credits: 3 Malone, Rosenberg.
A study of nature and causes of environmental pollution and legal techniques for its control. The course considers common law, environmental impact assessment process, and basic regulatory framework for air, water and solid hazardous waste control, and main policy issues presented by each. Other: role of federal courts in reviewing agency action, new developments in administrative law, natural resource management and allocation issues, toxic and hazardous substance regulation, and enforcement of laws. Cross-listed with [LAW 424 ]
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PUBP 630 - The Economics of Policy-Making at the State and Local Level
Fall Credits: 3 Staff.
A topics course including, but not limited to, the measurement of state and local fiscal capacity, urban problems, urban infrastructure development, intergovernmental aid to localities, industrial location decisions, and local land use policy and its impact on growth and development.
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PUBP 631 - State and Local Politics and Policy-Making
Spring Credits: 3 Howard, McGlennon.
This course examines the nature of state and local governments and their policy processes and outcomes, including relationships among levels of government, explanations for policy variations among states and localities, and constraints on attempts to deal with their public policy responsibilities.
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PUBP 632 - Local Government Law
Spring Credits: 3 Rosenberg.
This course examines local government powers and relation to state and federal authority with emphasis on state and federal statutory and constitutional restraints on operation of local government entities. Topics include: Dillon’s Rule, home rule, preemption, annexation, personnel matters, public contracts, borrowing and taxation, and public entity tort liability and immunity. Cross-listed with [LAW 429 ]
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PUBP 633 - Land Use Control
Spring Credits: 3 Butler, Rosenberg.
Analysis of legal doctrines governing use of land in modern society. Topics include: zoning, land planning, sub-division regulations, rezoning, variances, conditional uses, and mandatory dedications, common law doctrines and private law methods which affect land use, and historic preservation as a land use problem. Cross-listed with [LAW 425 ]
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PUBP 635 - Fundamentals of Environmental Science for Policy
Fall Credits: 3 Taylor.
This course is intended primarily for students in Law, Public Policy and related disciplines, and is designed to introduce these students to the science of natural systems and ecological processes. The course examines the current state of our understanding in terms that will give the student confidence and the facility to critically assess theories and observations in environmental science. With this as a foundation, topics discussed will include: the enhanced greenhouse effect, coastal eutrophication, biodiversity loss, water resources, sea level rise, environmental contamination, land use trends, and invasive species impacts.
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PUBP 640 - Labor Market Policy
Spring Credits: 3 McHenry.
This course examines how public policies affect the labor market. Topics include: wage determination, education, training, minimum wages, immigration, unemployment compensation, social security, disability insurance, comparable worth, workplace safety, welfare reform, and affirmative action.
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PUBP 642 - Legal Foundations of American Social Programs
Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
This course examines law relating to major benefits programs, including social security, medicare/medicaid, unemployment, employee rehabilitation, AFDC, and Food Stamps, including decision-making processes used in governance of these programs and the basic substantive law created for and by these programs. Cross-listed with [LAW 430]
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PUBP 643 - Employment Discrimination
Spring Credits: 3 Grover.
A study of federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment on account of race, national origin, gender, religion and handicapping condition, with emphasis on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Equal Pay Act. Cross-listed with [LAW 452 ]
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PUBP 644 - The Financing of Higher Education
Fall Credits: 3 Eddy, Finnegan.
An overview of the financing of higher education. Besides becoming acquainted with the literature and main issues in finance, students will develop the ability to examine and analyze financial statements, assess the budget as an instrument of control, and relate the budget to the educational program. Cross-listed with [EPPL 676 ]
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PUBP 645 - Higher Education and Public Policy
Spring Credits: 3 Staff.
A seminar for advanced graduate students in which the general topic of the relationship between the government and higher education is developed. Major attention is given to developments since World War II. Cross-listed with [EPPL 713 ]
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PUBP 646 - Employment Law
Fall Credits: 3 Abel, Douglas.
This course will focus on a variety of common law and statutory legal issues surrounding the employer-employee relationship. Issues considered will include employment at-will, employee privacy, covenants not to compete, regulation of wages and hours, ERISA, worker’s compensation, occupational health and safety, and unemployment compensation. This course will not overlap either LAW 452 - Employment Discrimination or LAW 407 - Labor Law Cross-listed with [LAW 456 ]
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PUBP 650 - International Trade: Theory and Policy
Spring Credits: 3 Feldman, Lopresti.
Trade influences national income, resource allocation, and the distribution of income. We use economic theory to develop these ideas and to relate them to the public policy debate. Topics include: the economics of protectionism, industrial policy and strategic trade issues, regional integration, and the policymaking process itself.
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PUBP 651 - International Development and Policy
Spring Credits: 3 BenYishay Note: PUBP 605 and PUBP 651 can be taken instead of PUBP 606
This course applies relevant economic theories to the study of growth and structural change in less industrialized countries. Topics include sources of growth, industrialization, trade, income distribution, urbanization, and the state. Various techniques of policy analysis will be examined through selected case studies.
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PUBP 652 - Public International Law
Fall Credits: 3 Malone.
An examination of the nature and sources of international law and municipal law; the law of treaties; principles of jurisdiction; statehood and recognition of states and governments; sovereign immunity; rights of aliens; human rights; environmental issues; and regulation of international coercion. Cross-listed with [LAW 409 ]
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PUBP 653 - Diplomacy Lab
Fall and Spring Credits: (1 to 3) Staff. Note: Instructor permission required.
Course for students accepted into the State Department’s Diplomacy Lab program. Separate sections will be offered for each of the Diplomacy Lab projects.
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PUBP 685 - Colloquium
Fall and Spring Credits: variable 0-2 Graded Pass/Fail
No credits earned in this course may be applied to the number of credits required for a degree. This course may be repeated.
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EDUC C10 - Counseling Residency I
Credits: (0) Graded Pass Fail Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32 EDUC C32 EDUC C33 EDUC C33 EDUC C34 EDUC C34 EDUC C43 EDUC C43 Prereq/Corequisite(s):
The Residency I course is a four-day, on-campus learning experience in which students in the online Counseling programs engage directly with the faculty in activities designed to promote and assess their basic counseling skills and dispositions. The course is a prerequisite to student participation in the clinical Practicum.
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EDUC C11 - Counseling Residency II
Credits: (0) Graded Pass Fail Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32 ; EDUC C33 ; EDUC C34 ; EDUC C43
The Residency II course is a four-day, on-campus learning experience in which students in the online Counseling programs engage directly with the faculty in activities designed to promote and assess their advanced counseling skills and dispositions. The course is a prerequisite to student participation in the Supervised Internship in Counseling.
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EDUC C29 - Substance Abuse and Society
Credits: (3)
This course examines substance use and abuse in contemporary society. Topics are treated from a multi-disciplinary perspective including biological, social, pharmacological, cultural, psychological, political, economic, and legal aspects of substance abuse. Patterns of addiction, intervention and rehabilitation in respect to substance abuse also are analyzed. Assessments of the costs, options, and alternatives to addiction along with educational efforts toward prevention are examined.
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EDUC C31 - Career Development
Credits: (3)
A study of the occupational structure of our society, of factors influencing career development, and of techniques for providing educational and occupational information. Both individual and group activities are stressed.
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EDUC C32 - Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Credits: (3)
A study of the major concepts and practices of contemporary therapeutic systems as well as an overview of developmental and psychopathological issues presented by clients.
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EDUC C33 - Techniques of Counseling
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
An intensive study of techniques utilized in individual counseling. Extensive use is made of case data and role playing.
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EDUC C34 - Group Theory and Techniques
Credits: (3)
Group Theory & Techniques provides both theoretical and experiential understandings of group purpose, development, dynamics, techniques and skills, and various group approaches. The course focuses on helping beginning group leaders apply their new knowledge to working in groups with children, adolescents, and adults across diverse settings. Counseling theories and their application to working with groups are given consideration throughout the course. Through the use of experiential activities, both in and outside the classroom, students will acquire experience in conducting counseling, psychoeducational, and task/work groups.
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EDUC C35 - Introduction to Professional School Counseling
Credits: (3)
This course is designed to give prospective school counselors: (a) an understanding of the historical impetus which led to the development of counselors and counseling programs in schools; (b) a means to make practical use of the counseling and guidance theories and techniques as they apply in the Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) requirements; (c) exposure to administrative activities which provide the framework for school counseling services; (d) prevention and intervention strategies which contribute to students’ academic career, and personal social growth and development; and (e) an understanding of proactive leadership as it relates to student advocacy as well as the challenge of developing new paradigms for the future
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EDUC C42 - Supervised Practicum in Counseling
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32 EDUC C33 and EDUC C34
The Counseling Practicum course is designed to provide students in counseling with their first client contact in a closely supervised setting. It is designed to help students begin to translate their academic understanding into actual counseling practice. Students complete a pre-determined number of hours of individual and group counseling in laboratory and field settings under supervision by doctoral-level Practicum Supervisors, the counseling faculty, and qualified field placement site supervisors.
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EDUC C43 - Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Counseling
Credits: (3)
This course will provide students with a foundation in issues that affect the profession of counseling. Students will examine: (1) professional issues, including professional identity, history and systems of counseling, professional organizations, counseling settings and counselor functions, and research issues affecting the conceptual base of the profession, (2) counseling ethics and ethical dilemmas, and (3) legal decisions that affect the practice of counseling. The course will emphasize active student participation in the exploration of these issues.
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EDUC C44 - Addictions Counseling
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC C29 , EDUC C32 , EDUC C33 and EDUC C34
This course is designed to cover those counseling theories and techniques utilized with clients suffering from addictions or substance abuse. Treatments will be discussed from the perspective of the medical, recovery, and transpersonal models of addiction.
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EDUC C45 - Transpersonal Counseling: Theory, Research and Practice
Credits: (3)
This course offers an analysis of the field of transpersonal counseling; theory, research, and practice. The relationship of transpersonal theories to traditional theories will be examined. Special attention will be devoted to the use of transpersonal approaches in addictions counseling and substance abuse prevention.
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EDUC C46 - Contemporary Issues in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Credits: (3)
This course provides counselors who will work as licensed practitioners in clinical mental health settings with an understanding of the historical and philosophical background of clinical mental health counseling. It will cover the forces that influence the development of clinical mental health counseling, the role of the clinical mental health counselor, professional issues unique to clinical mental health counseling, client characteristics, principles of clinical mental health counseling, community needs assessment, and counseling program development.
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EDUC C47 - Internship in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32 , EDUC C33 , EDUC C34 , EDUC C42 , and EDUC C43
The internship practicum is designed to give students the opportunity to demonstrate and improve their counseling skills in an agency setting. Students complete a minimum of 300 hours of counseling experience in a community agency setting under both university and field supervision. In addition, participation in a weekly group supervision session and an experience log are required.
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EDUC C49 - Supervised Internship in School Counseling
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s):
EDUC C32 , EDUC C33 , EDUC C34 , EDUC C42 , and EDUC C43
This counseling internship is designed to give advanced students in counseling the opportunity to put into practice the skills and knowledge they have developed throughout their counseling program. Students complete a minimum of 600 hours of counseling experience in a school setting under both college and field supervision. In addition, participation in a weekly group supervision session on campus is required.
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EDUC C50 - Internship in Addictions Counseling
Credits: (3-6) Prerequisite(s):
EDUC C29 , EDUC C32 , EDUC C33 , EDUC C34 , EDUC C44 and permission of instructor.
This counseling internship provides advances training, supervision and skill development in addictions counseling with individuals; addictions counseling with groups; and special topics in addictions counseling at the Counselor Education Clinic. All interns must attend two hours of weekly group supervision ad a minimum of one hour of weekly individual supervision.
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EDUC C51 - Military Life, Culture, & Challenges
Credits: (3)
This course introduces students to the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary life in the U.S. military. The course also examines the history and mission of the various U.S. military branches as well as the unique military values, social structure, chain of command, work ethic, job demands, and language that may distinguish active military members and veterans from their civilian counterparts. The course goal is to enable student counselors to connect more readily with military and veteran clients and their families through increased knowledge and sensitivity to those clients’ unique needs.
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EDUC C52 - Assessment and Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders
Credits: (3)
This course informs students about the impact of trauma on human functioning and provides them with a basic conceptual framework and skills for counseling people who are suffering from trauma-related disorders. Students will learn to recognize the physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral symptoms of trauma-related stress reactions (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, moral injury) and traumatic brain injury and apply select counseling interventions to assist clients who are exhibiting those symptoms. Students will also learn to recognize the limits of their expertise in addressing trauma-related disorders and when and where to make appropriate referrals for specialized intervention services.
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EDUC C53 - Military-to-Veteran Transition
Credits: (3)
This course introduces students to the challenges being faced by today’s military service members and their families as they transition from military to civilian life. Pressing issues such as divorce, physical and psychological disability, substance abuse, suicide, unemployment, violence, and homelessness will be examined as they relate to the military veteran population. Students will develop a working knowledge of federal, state, and local support resources that are currently available to assist military service members in the transition process. The course goal is to provide student counselors with the information and tools they need to effectively assist military clients in anticipating and overcoming the challenges of soldier-to-veteran transition.
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EDUC C91 - Advanced Issues in Professional School Counseling
Credits: (3)
Designed as a “bookend” course to complement “Introduction to School Counseling” and to serve as a capstone to the school counseling track, this course acquaints students with the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive school guidance and counseling programs
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EDUC F12 - Advanced Educational Psychology and Development
Credits: (3)
A course that examines psychological theories and research findings dealing with child and adolescent development and learning. Special emphasis is placed upon the ways in which theoretical and empirical findings in educational and developmental psychology have been translated into educational practice.
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EDUC F67 - Psychological and Educational Measurement
Credits: (3)
An introduction to the use of educational and psychological assessment procedures used by educators and other helping professionals. The course deals with the selection, administration, and scoring of psychological assessment techniques and the interpretation and application of their results.
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EDUC P20A - Psycho-educational Assessment for School Psychologists
Credits: (4) Prerequisite(s): Admission to the M.Ed. Program in School Psychology and concurrent enrollment in EDUC F67
This year-long course sequence is designed to introduce students to a problem-solving model of assessment for addressing children’s educational and behavioral problems. The model defines educational problems situationally as the difference between what is expected and what occurs. These difficulties do not reside solely within the individual child, but result from the interaction between student behavior, curriculum, and instruction. The model defines ‘effective assessment’ as assessment which evaluates the situation as well as the child and which produces effective interventions. Effective assessment employs standardized tests, rating scales, structured interviews, record review, systematic observation, and curriculum-based measurement. Training and practice in the assessment techniques and application of this problem-solving model will be the focus of this course. Specifically, students will develop competencies in the following areas of assessment: intellectual ability, academic achievement, processing skills, personality and behavior problems, observations and interviews. Students will communicate assessment findings and recommendations clearly and concisely in jargon-free, family-friendly reports. A practicum is an essential and necessary component of this course. Students must achieve a grade of ‘B’ or above each semester.
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EDUC P20B - Psycho-educational Assessment for School Psychologists II
Credits: (4)
This course is the second half of a year-long course sequence designed to introduce master’s-level students to a problem solving model of assessment for addressing children’s educational and behavioral problems. Instruction and practice in the application of this problem solving assessment model will be the focus of this course.
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EDUC P23 - Introduction to Professional School Psychology
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): Admission to the M.Ed. Program in School Psychology.
This course provides an introductory survey of school psychology as a specialty of professional psychology. The roles and functions of the school psychologist will be explored as they relate to Virginia and the nation; political and legal implication of these roles are identified. This introduction encompasses numerous topics including the historical development of the specialty; relationship to other specialties in psychology and education; graduate training and models of professional preparation; licensure and certification; special education laws relevant to the practice of school psychology; diversity of practice settings; and diversity of client populations served. The course includes an experiential component in which students are required to visit local schools and observe a variety of educational and psychological programs and practices.
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EDUC P24 - Practicum in School Psychology
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the School Psychology Program.
A field-based experience designed to provide opportunities for students to gather knowledge and skills most appropriately learned in the field and to refine skills learned in the university training program. Practicum experiences include administration and interpretation of diagnostic assessment instruments; participation in team meetings; consultation with teachers, parents, and administrators; and intervention with children.
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EDUC P56 - Consultation in the Schools
Credits: (3)
The course assists students in developing their skills in consultation with particular emphasis upon working with parents and teachers.
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EDUC 500 - Global Studies
Credits: (1-6)
This course involves travel to an international site location and immersion in a foreign culture to allow for study of educational topics in context. The course sites for this course vary over time. Pre-trip and post-trip work is common.
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EDUC 582 - New Science of Creativity
Credits: (3)
This course demonstrates that the creative process is a skill set that can be taught, fostered, and developed, and explores contemporary scientific theories regarding the nature, measurement, and development of creativity. It focuses on examining creative climate, attitude, and thinking (Creative CAT) from the perspectives of everyday and eminently creative artists, theorists, philosophers, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and leaders. It offers suggestions for enhancing Creative CAT in every endeavor.
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EDUC 601 - Advanced Group Work and Theory
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC C34 or an equivalent introductory course in Group Counseling.
This course is designed for students wishing to pursue advanced study in group theory, group leadership, group processes, and group supervision. The course may examine contemporary trends and developments in group counseling as well as ethical, legal, and professional issues affecting the practice of group counseling.
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EDUC 624 - Theory and Practice of Multi‑Cultural Counseling
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32
This course is designed to familiarize the student with the cultural differences of the major racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. Through self-disclosure, individual experiences, group presentations and lectures, the students will gain a better knowledge of these groups and the cross-cultural counseling methods to work with them.
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EDUC 625 - Couples Counseling and Sex Therapy
Credits: (3)
A course to give students an increased awareness of sexual issues and problems so that they can be sensitive and helpful to the people they counsel who have sexual difficulties or questions. It is also for counselors, teachers, or administrators who will be involved in implementing or teaching programs of sex education. The course includes presentation of factual information, and curricula and theories of sex education and therapy, as well as an opportunity for students to explore their own sexual attitudes, feelings, and values.
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EDUC 626 - Seminar in Professional School Psychology: Ethical and Legal Issues
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in the School Psychology Program.
This course, designed for students in the School Psychology Program, provides students with the opportunity to become familiar with the roles and functions of fellow professionals in educational and agency settings. This course also examines professional issues in school psychology including principles of professional ethics, ethical dilemmas, and relevant legislation and litigation. Emphasis is placed on active student participation in the exploration of these issues.
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EDUC 627 - Marriage and Family Counseling
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC C32 and EDUC C33 or permission of instructor.
A survey course that examines the origin and dynamics of family systems theory and its application to the practice of marriage and family counseling. Students are introduced to various theoretical explanations for why people behave the way they do in marital and family relationships, to verbal and nonverbal interaction patterns operating within family relationships, and to multiple approaches to therapeutic intervention with families.
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EDUC 629 - Individual Appraisal
Credits: (3)
This course is intended to provide doctoral counselor education students with advanced training in assessment. The course design is consistent with the goals training counselor educators to be leaders, scholars who will contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the profession. In order to fulfill these roles, William & Mary counselor education doctoral students must be familiar with and skilled in the development of valid and reliable research instruments that can be used to answer research questions that will advance our profession.
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EDUC 630 - Family Development and Processes
Credits: (3)
This class is designed to inform students about family life cycle development, conceptualizations of normalcy from a systems perspective, and assessment of family functioning. Students will learn to recognize family strengths within a variety of family forms, and explore the impact of contemporary values on families and their communities.
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EDUC 632 - Advanced Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.
A doctoral course that critically examines select, contemporary, theoretical orientations to counseling and psychotherapy in order to facilitate informed understanding through critical analysis of contemporary literature, to promote insight into current clinical applications, and to promote students’ ability to articulate an identifiable, integrated, and defensible theoretical approach to clinical practice and research.
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EDUC 635 - Advanced Family Counseling: Theories and Techniques
Credits: (3)
This class is an advanced seminar designed to critically examine conceptual models, clinical practices, and assumptions that organize work with families. The texts, selected readings, class discussions, and writing assignments will address modernist and post-modernist theoretical paradigms, as well as relevant ethical codes, with emphasis on application to clinical practice.
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EDUC 636 - Addictions and Family Systems
Credits: (3)
This course is intended to merge the conceptualization and practice of two areas, family systems and addictions. The course is designed to explore these two areas, their impact on each other, and to present an integrated view of family systems and the process of addiction and recovery.
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EDUC 638 - Prevention and Intervention within Public Schools
Credits: (3)
This course informs school psychology graduate students about effective prevention and intervention programs and strategies that can be implemented within public school settings. The course highlights empirically supported methods for promoting school success through both preventative and remedial strategies across the grade levels. School-based strategies for enhancing academic achievement, fostering social competence, and preventing behavior and adjustment problems will be presented. Students will begin to develop expertise in designing, implementing, and evaluating prevention and intervention programs within public school settings.
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EDUC 639 - Theory and Process of Counselor Supervision
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Doctoral program.
This course will cover theories and techniques of counselor supervision. It will include major theories of counselor development, the counselor-supervisor relationship, major approaches to supervision, supervision methods, and supervision ethics. The course is open to doctoral students and is a prerequisite to the Doctoral Internship.
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EDUC 644 - Developmental Psychopathology
Credits: (3)
This course is designed to familiarize students with the psychological disorders of children and adolescents that are most frequently encountered by school psychologists. The content of the course will focus on developmental issues, defining characteristics, associated features, etiologic factors, assessment and diagnostic classification, and evidence-based interventions for effective treatment.
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EDUC 645 - The Counselor and Psychopathology
Credits: (3)
This course covers the types of psychopathology most often encountered in counseling settings. Students are introduced to the diagnostic categories of the most current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual with particular emphasis placed on making appropriate diagnoses and the use of these diagnoses for treatment planning and intervention strategies.
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EDUC 646 - Internship in Family Counseling
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor.
This internship provides advanced training, supervision and skill development in marriage and family counseling; family, counselor, and school collaboration; and family counseling clinic administration. Students provide family counseling services to client families referred to the New Horizons Family Counseling Center by participating public school systems, and have an opportunity to learn from each other and from licensed clinical faculty and staff during weekly supervision.
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EDUC 647 - Internship in Counselor Supervision
Credits: (3) Graded pass/fail Prerequisite(s): Admission to Doctoral Program and EDUC 639
This internship serves as the clinical component of the four-semester sequence in the theory and practice of counselor supervision that begins with EDUC 639. The course provides advanced training and skill development in supervision, and requires each intern to apply supervision theory and skills in actual supervisory processes with supervisees from the Masters Practicum in Counseling - EDUC C42.
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EDUC 659 - Internship in School Psychology
Credits: (6) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): Completion of all other coursework in the Ed.S. Program in School Psychology.
The culminating evaluation experience in the Ed.S. Program in School Psychology is the internship which must occur on a full-time basis over a period of one year or on a half-time basis over a period of 2 consecutive academic years in an accredited school. Evaluation of performance is conducted cooperatively between the College and the appropriate school personnel. Students typically receive a stipend during the internship year.
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EDUC 662 - Prevention and Intervention in Early Childhood Education
Occasionally. Credits: (3) Staff. Prerequisite(s): Enrollment in School Psychology Program or permission from the instructor.
This graduate seminar overviews current issues in early childhood education. Course content focuses on strategies for preventing school failure through early literacy support, family-school partnerships, and teacher professional development in PK-3 educational settings. Students interact weekly with young children and their teachers and implement assessments and interventions in PK-1 classrooms.
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EDUC 663 - Quantitative Research Design & Methods I
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC F65
This intermediate-level research design and methods course focuses on descriptive, causal comparative, and comparative positivistic research. Students are introduced to both research design and statistical analyses that are appropriate to and comparative research questions.
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EDUC 664 - Qualitative Research Methods
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 663
An intermediate research course that introduces qualitative methods of research for the study of educational issues. Readings and class discussions will emphasize the theoretical underpinnings of these methods, while assignments focus on the practical experience with these methods in the field of education. This course is offered in the form of a doctoral level seminar and as such requires considerable reading, writing, critiquing, and reflection.
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EDUC 665 - Quantitative Research Design & Methods II
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 663
This intermediate-level research design and methods course focuses on the collection and analysis of data from correlational studies. Students are introduced to both positivistic research design and statistical analyses that are appropraite for addressing questions of relationship.
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EDUC 669 - Neuropsychological Bases of Behavior
Credits: (3)
This course provides the advanced level graduate student with an overview of research emanating from such representative disciplines of the neurosciences as anatomy, physiology, psychology, chemistry, and medicine.
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EDUC 675 - Theories & Strategies for Counseling School-Aged Children
Credits: (3)
The focus of this course is on the understanding and application of contemporary theories of counseling for school-aged children and adolescents. Theories will be studied with respect to key concepts, the therapeutic process and goals, and specific techniques. Students will apply their skills in practice sessions with school-aged children. The physiological, cognitive, social, and emotional development of children as well as their environment (including the school) will be emphasized so that interventions are consistent with the children’s needs.
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EDUC 684 - Advanced Multicultural Social Justice Theory and Practice
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 624
A course which build on the introductory elements of multiculturalism and social justice as presented in EDUC 624. This course covers the following topics: professional issues that require social justice analysis and advocacy, social justice theorectical frameworks, ethical and legal issues in social justice, systemic barriers and challenges, and culturally responsive leadership.
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EDUC 703 - Research in Counselor Education
Credits: (3)
The purpose of this course is preparation for the dissertation through the exploration of current literature in counselor education. This seminar enables students to confront problems in conducting original investigations in counselor education and to become familiar with resources for doing research. The primary activity will be the construction of the dissertation proposal prospectus.
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EDUC 704 - Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Methods
Credits: (3) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 664
Advanced-level methodological course that helps students understand–through comparison and contrast–a broad range of nonpositivistic (a.k.a. “qualitative”) research approaches. Students learn to accurately select, combine, and sequence methods to create ontologically and epistemologically robust, consistent, and coherent research designs. The course requires considerable reading, writing, reflection, critiquing, and revision.
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EDUC 762 - Doctoral Seminar in Counseling
Credits: (3)
The course will review current theory and program application within the cognitive/constructivist developmental paradigm to offer an organizing framework for the analysis and development of counselor education, supervision, clinical practice and research, and application to the field through the development of a research project on a current topic.
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EDUC 763 - Doctoral Practicum
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail. Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Doctoral Counselor Education Program.
The Doctoral Practicum provides advanced counseling practice in a supervised setting to PhD students on Counselor Education and Supervision. Students complete 100 hours of hours of counseling practice in a field setting under weekly supervision by counseling faculty and qualified field placement site supervisors.
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EDUC 764 - Seminar in Counselor Education
Credits: (3)
This course is an advanced seminar for doctoral students in counselor education. It covers theory, practice, and research in counselor education. Specific topics covered include: instructional theory and methods relevant to counselor education, ethical and legal issues in counselor education and supervision; publishing, grant writing, faculty service, program accreditation, life in academia, the academic job search, program evaluation, and implications of socio-cultural, demographic, and lifestyle diversity for counselor education and supervision.
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EDUC 765 - Doctoral Internship
Credits: (3) Graded Pass/Fail.
The doctoral internship provides supervised experiences in clinical settings, teaching, supervision and service to the profession and public. Each student develops the internship program according to areas identified by the student and advisor that are necessary to comprehensive preparation as a counselor educator & supervisor and that are relevant to the specific career goals of each student. The Doctoral Internship requires 300 hours of work experience and weekly group and individual meetings with the faculty supervisor. The internship further offers psychosocial support, role modeling, and professional development in counselor education and supervision.
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GRAD 501 - English Conversation and Pronunciation
Fall Credits: (0 credit) Graded Pass/Fail.
In this course students will learn more about articulation and the rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns of spoken English, improve their ability to communicate with others, and practice distinguishing sounds that are unique to the English language. Recorded assignments and in-class discussions will allow students opportunities to practice their conversational skills and learn more about American culture.
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GRAD 502 - Effective Conversation
Spring Credits: (0 credit) Graded Pass/Fail.
Students will learn about and practice a set of strategies for effective conversation in English. These strategies include how to ask for clarification, agree and disagree, summarize, share information, correct someone politely, and make decisions in a group setting. Students will learn American conversational conventions and culture, while practicing skills in initiating, maintaining, and ending a conversation.
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GRAD 503 - Extended Discussion and Active Listening Skills
Fall Credits: (0 credit) Graded Pass/Fail.
Being able to converse and be understood is critical to success in graduate study. These skills are also needed when presenting research. This class will help to build extended discussion skills, sharpen a listener’s ear to understand what’s being said and asked so that students will gain increasing confidence in their speaking, discussion and listening abilities in the classroom and on campus in general.
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GRAD 505 - Academic Public Speaking
Spring Credits: (0 credit) Graded Pass/Fail.
Giving a successful presentation requires many components. This course will address audience, organization of content, effective visuals, non-verbal and verbal skills such as chunking, pacing, stress and intonation. Grammar and pronunciation will be polished along the way as students will have ample opportunity to practice. The goal is to raise confidence and refine the skills needed in graduate classes and research presentations.
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GRAD 510 - Science Writing Retreat
Credits: (0 credit) Sarah Glosson. Graded Pass/Fail.
This course offers writing support for students in the sciences working to make substantial progress on their thesis or other large-scale writing project. Structured as a one-week “bootcamp,” the course offers tailored workshops in improving writing and revising skills, time management, grammar tips, and more. Workshops take place during lunch, with the rest of the time spent in quiet writing supported by individual help, as needed.
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