May 06, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses Descriptions


 

Other Courses

  
  • FC 111 - Freshmen Seminar 2

    Credits: 1 credit hour
    Required of all freshmen

Leadership

  
  • LEAD 500 - Writing Across the Curriculum

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This interdisciplinary course provides an opportunity for students to engage in intensive scholarly writing activities designed to develop and enhance writing skills while also developing critical thinking, and research skills. These transferrable skills can be used in furthering the development of leadership skills, curriculum-related writing instruction, class assignments, research and analysis projects, and thesis development. Students are expected to already have and be able to use basic writing skills that will be sharpened by participation in this course.
  
  • LEAD 501 - Public Administration: Theories, Principles, and Practices

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This is a graduate level introductory course designed to provide students with an operational knowledge of the history, theories and practice of public administration in the United States at the national, state and local levels. In this course an examination of the political, institutional, organizational, ethical, social, legal, and economic environments in which public administrators operate will be conducted. Emphasis is given to the practical application of theories and constructs through case studies.
  
  • LEAD 513 - Advanced Professional Ethics (General professional ethics)

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The course offers an in-depth examination of ethical standards and legal requirements specifically related to professional ethics. Grounded in advanced moral theory, the course will challenge students to think critically about their own ethical stances toward the informed employment of established codes of conduct and ethical decision making. Students will synthesize course concepts in order to elaborate how their professional ethics and moral decisions relate to larger social issues.
  
  • LEAD 514 - Professional Code of Ethics (for field of Psychology)

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The course offers an in-depth examination of normative, codified ethical standards and legal requirements specifically related to the clinical practice of psychology, counseling or psychological research. Students will explore course concepts in order to suggest how their professional ethics relates to larger social issues.
  
  • LEAD 515 - Leadership and Communication in Organization Systems

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This is a graduate level course designed to examine the structures of communication and leadership in organizations. Problems, issues, and techniques of organizational communication are analyzed through case histories, exercises, and projects. The examination of leadership theories as it relates to communication is intended to impact the transformative leader in areas such as: strategic management, motivation, decision-making, leadership, communication, group dynamics, organizational politics, organizational structure, organizational culture, and organizational change.
  
  • LEAD 521 - Analysis of Public Policy for Civic Engagement

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This is a graduate level course that focuses on the public policy process in the United States: how potential ideas for government action are translated from concepts into reality. The course examines both the policy process at the federal (national) level and policy-making by state government and its subsidiary units. (Public administration emphasis)
  
  • LEAD 525 - Public Personnel Management

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This is a graduate level course designed to examine the fundamental features of public personnel management by looking at how individuals, groups, and organizations impact the creation and sustainability of public personnel management. This course covers areas such as strategic management, motivation, decision-making, leadership, communication, group dynamics, organizational politics, organizational structure, organizational culture, and organizational change. (Public administration emphasis)
  
  • LEAD 529 - Special Topics: Professional Development Seminar

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The primary purpose of this course is to promote reflective thinking practices for empowerment in leadership decision-making in educational environments. Through ongoing professional seminars and engagement in a variety of professional workshops on topics related to education, students will develop the ability to self-evaluate and reflect on experiences for personal and professional development. Students in this course will also develop a seminar portfolio.
  
  • LEAD 530 - Special Topics: Constitutional Law and Policy

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course is a survey of constitutional law emphasizing civil rights and individual liberties. This course provides both traditional and multimedia instruction to promote the application of constitutional law frameworks for criminal justice procedures and civil right policies, to enable student proficiencies in the scholarly study of law and its application. Although not writing intensive, this course may be somewhat demanding in terms of reading and thinking.
  
  • LEAD 531 - Special Topics: Criminal Law and Policy

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course is a study of criminal law in the United States; it specifically covers federal and state criminal law. Topics include principles of criminal law, principles of criminal liability, complicity, inchoate crimes, defenses, justifications, excuses, crimes against persons, crimes against property, and crimes against public order.
  
  • LEAD 601 - Seminar: Leadership Theory, Principles and Practices

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this foundational course, students will read, discuss, and analyze seminal works in leadership theory. Emphasis is placed on reading, reflecting and critiquing the various philosophies, schools and genre of leadership theory. Contemporary problems and issues will be analyzed in terms of the contrasting approaches of the leadership theorists.
  
  • LEAD 605 - Critical Reflection & Transformative Leadership.

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    The purpose of this course is to explore and analyze the ways in which critical thinking and emancipatory education shapes and transforms leaders. Students will examine the practices and processes associated with transformative/emancipatory learning theory related to the construction of the meaning of leadership grounded in human experiences. This course is based in the literature of adult education and integrates the theory and philosophy of that discipline to the practice of leadership in the workplace.
  
  • LEAD 611 - Organizational Change and Dynamics

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course will introduce the student to the literature of organizational theory, management, and systems theory, while differentiating between the transactional and transformative leader. Emphasis is placed on learners gaining an integrated perspective of systems theory and developing capabilities enabling strategic planning, architecting, leading, and sustaining transformation initiatives and practices within organizations. Organizations are undergoing constant change, and the people working within these systems need tools for leading under all circumstances. This course will provide information on the leadership challenges faced in both stable and dynamic organizational environments. The importance of ethical decision-making in the role of the transformative leader will be analyzed through case studies related to explore management/leadership issues.
  
  • LEAD 612 - Organization of Natural Systems

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course is an integrated survey of the design, function, and maintenance of ecological (“natural”) systems; their organization, structure, continuity, and changes regardless of spatial or temporal scales. The topic will be explored from a systems theory perspective, will draw heavily from resilience management concepts, and will add historic, economic, and sociopolitical information to place these systems into the larger contextual paradigm of the socio-ecological system. Among the aspects of ecological systems to be emphasized will be their diversity, the interaction of their parts, their development and change over time, and their sustainability in the face of natural fluctuations and externally applied disturbance. (IES track)
  
  • LEAD 613 - Ethical Decision-making

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course provides students with a variety of theoretical perspectives and tools to be used in resolving ethical dilemmas typically found in professional life, and to challenge students to apply these tools on a case-by-case basis. By surveying various ethical perspectives, both religious and philosophical, such as virtue ethics, deontological ethics, utilitarianism, and pragmatism, without endorsing any single approach to ethical decision-making, the course will challenge students to think critically about their own ethical stances. The course will employ a case-study approach to ethical decision-making. Students will be evaluated on the basis of how well they understand and consistently and reasonably employ their chosen approach to ethical decision-making.
  
  • LEAD 614 - Environmental Ethics/Justice


    This course will provide an advanced study, in methodological terms, of the application of morals/ethics to environmental issues (understood in social, ecological and economic terms). As our approach to the environment necessarily involves judgments of the value and “correctness” of our manipulations and modifications to our surroundings, as these judgments are necessarily based on a viewpoint of our relationship to our surroundings and the value we place in them, and as these manipulations and modifications necessarily involve issues of fairness and generational equity, the course will provide you with a number of techniques and viewpoints from which you can develop your own ethical approach to environmental issues and evaluate options that will be placed before you in your lives. (IES track)
  
  • LEAD 615 - Cognition, Communication, and Behavior

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this course, the student studies leadership theory with a concentration on cognitive style and psycho-neurological aspects of a leader’s performance, behavioral aspects of leadership including the use of power, aggressive versus avoidant tendencies and security issues, the communications styles of leaders including clarity of intention, and relationship theory. The student studies the interaction of these factors through readings from the literature of leadership, psychology, communication and adult education. Critical reflection will be introduced through the use of case studies and other readings to challenge the students to resolve ethical issues while analyzing the interpersonal communication and behavioral responses of the actors in the case studies.
  
  • LEAD 620 - Advanced Environmental Economics


    This course provides a comprehensive overview of the economics of national, international, and global environmental problems. A unifying theme throughout is sustainable development, defined here in economic terms as “maximizing the net benefits of economic development while maintaining the services and quality of natural resources over time”. We will use economic reasoning to examine causes and consequences of environmental and resource problems, and measures for dealing with them. (IES track)
  
  • LEAD 621 - Leadership and Civic Engagement

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course brings together concepts from organizational theory, ethics, public policy and service learning, to create a course where the student integrates his or her program into a united whole through readings, action research applications, experiential reflections, and interactive dialogue. This course works in conjunction with all other courses to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate issues, concepts and ideas as they promote active leadership. Through a process of critical reflection, classical and modern writers will be subjected to scrutiny, with the goal of assisting students to arrive at interpretive frames more adequate to adult life experience. The course will connect cognitive processes with experiential affects through a community service project.
  
  • LEAD 623 - Social Justice for Multicultural Global Leadership

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course entails an in-depth investigation of several different theories of justice including distributive justice, retributive justice and restorative justice with an emphasis on how various theories of justice inform leadership practice and conflict resolution. A case study approach is employed in concert with socio-structural and philosophical inquiry.
  
  • LEAD 625 - Seminar: Special Topics in Transformative Leadership

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course will be a capstone seminar. It is based on the coursework, background and research of the students. Topics for the seminar will be based on the background and career aspirations of the students in the cohort.
  
  • LEAD 630 - Earth Systems, Ecology and Human Health

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this course, students will examine the release and transport and fate of chemical and biological pollutants. Reports of environmental injury to living organisms and human health will be reviewed and analyzed from a global perspective.
  
  • LEAD 632 - Internship

    Credits: (1-6 semester hours)
    This course is intended for students who are not presently employed or who cannot accomplish the action research thesis project at their present place of employment. Internship credits cannot be used to satisfy the 36 semester hour requirement for the M.S. in Transformative Leadership.
  
  • LEAD 633 - Internship II

    Credits: (3 semester hours - Non-Thesis Track only)
    This course is a requirement for the MSTL Non-thesis Track. A student in the Non-thesis Track is required to work with the Internship Faculty Advisor to identify an organization for internship placement where the student can work closely with a Mentor/Supervisor to analyze organizational data and identify a problem for study. The graduate student works as an Intern for the Mentor/Supervisor who supervises the Intern along with the Internship Faculty Advisor. The Intern must document a minimum of 42 hours attendance across 14 weeks in the organizational internship and attend the three required seminars with the Internship Faculty Advisor (initial, midterm, and final). The internship environment must offer the student experiences in the leadership, management and social-emotional skills required in the selected organization.
  
  • LEAD 634 - Advanced Environmental Technology

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this course, students will conduct a survey of recently developed and developing processes and products intended to remove or prevent pollution of natural systems. The development of alternative energy sources will be included.
  
  • LEAD 638 - Data Collection, Analysis and Statistics

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course will provide students a foundation in methods and techniques of survey research, statistics and quantitative analysis of leadership problems and events. This course works in conjunction with LEAD 640 , LEAD 645  and LEAD 650  to develop the tools needed by the student to complete his/her action research.
  
  • LEAD 640 - Action Research I: Technology and Research Methods

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    This course will provide the student with an overview of Action Research methodology, both quantitative and qualitative with an emphasis on qualitative methods. In this course the student will identify his/her thesis problem and begin the literature review.
  
  • LEAD 641 - Research I: Environmental Information Systems/Methodology.


    In this course, students will survey, explore and utilize the vast network of environmental databases and informative reports which focuses on environmental issues and their impact on human health and societal issues well-being. The course will also introduce to students the concepts, physical characteristics and applications of geographic information system, remote sensing, dynamics simulations, and statistical modeling. This powerful mega-tool often referred to as environmental informatics (or eco-informatics) is essential to environmental management, planning and disaster control and water resource management.
  
  • LEAD 645 - Action Research II: Implementation

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this course, the student will integrate and apply knowledge and skills acquired in his/her courses to the community or work environment. The thesis construct developed in the earlier semesters will be implemented through data gathering within the workplace. (Note: This course is only open to students who have completed and received approval of their IRB.)
  
  • LEAD 646 - Action Research II: IRB

    Credits: (1 semester hours)
    This course provides an opportunity for graduate students to participate in ongoing thesis advisement and supervision to prepare the IRB Application. If the student receives an “incomplete” grade in this course, the student may not proceed to LEAD 647. This course provides an opportunity for graduate students to participate in ongoing thesis advisement and supervision to prepare the IRB Application. If the student receives an “incomplete” grade in this course, the student may not proceed to LEAD 647.
  
  • LEAD 650 - Action Research III: Thesis

    Credits: (3 semester hours)
    In this course the student will complete the work and writing of his/her thesis. Credit will be given upon successful defense of the thesis. If the student does not complete the successful defense of the thesis, then the grade will be a “P” for passing if a draft of the thesis is successfully completed and the student enrolls in the optional course LEAD 651 .
  
  • LEAD 651 - Action Research III: Thesis Continuation

    Credits: (1 semester hours)
    In this course the student will continue the work and writing of his/her thesis. Credit will be given upon successful defense of the thesis. No student can graduate from a degree program without being enrolled at the University.
  
  • LEAD 652 - Graduate Seminar: Capstone Project

    Credits: (3 semester hours - Non-Thesis Track only)
    The course provides a comparative study of the data-driven change projects implemented by the MSTL Non-thesis Track students. The students analyze the dynamics of the change process and the data analysis undertaken to identify the problem and the exploration of solutions. Seminar topics include data-driven problem solving process, organizational change, how to write a literature review, how to read and interpret theoretical, statistical and research components of peer reviewed journal articles, and project presentation (final paper, oral presentation). This course prepares students for application of the data-driven decision-making process in the Capstone Project.

Environmental Science

  
  • ES 501 - Environmental Seminar I

    Credits: 1 cr.
    A graduate seminar course focusing on external research presentations, literature review, and critique.
  
  • ES 502 - Environmental Seminar II

    Credits: 1 cr.
    A graduate seminar course focusing on faculty and student research presentations and critique.
  
  • ES 510 - Organization of Human Systems

    Credits: 3 cr.
    An integrated survey of the design and function of anthropogenic systems from scientific, historic, economic, and sociopolitical perspectives, with particular emphasis on managed and altered systems, their creation and maintenance, and issues of sustainability.
  
  • ES 511 - Organization of Natural Systems

    Credits: 3 cr.
    An integrated survey of the design and function of non-anthropogenic systems from scientific, historic, economic, and sociopolitical perspectives, with particular emphasis on ecosystems and diversity, their development and changes over time, and issues of sustainability.
  
  • ES 530 - Environmental Policy and Risk Management

    Credits: 2 cr.
    An advanced review of the topics, issues, influences, and approaches used to address the political and legal aspects of environmental issues, with an emphasis on methods to identify and manage environmental risk over both the short term and long term. Slash Course.
  
  • ES 550 - Ecosystem Management

    Credits: 2 cr.
    A project-based service learning course involving the theory and practice of managing complex natural systems, the control of human impacts upon them, and the development and achievement of functional goals for their maintenance from interdisciplinary and higher order ecosystem management perspectives. Slash Course.
  
  • ES 603 - Experimental Design

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of basic approaches to the design of environmental experiments and studies, including issues of randomization, balance, multivariable designs, comparison/contrast, sample size, blocking and nesting, and random and fixed effects.
  
  • ES 605 - Environmental Modeling

    Credits: 3 cr.
    An introduction to the major types of environmental models, including modeling theory and the conceptual and numerical methodologies used for modeling environmental systems.
  
  • ES 613 - Advanced Environmental Ethics

    Credits: 2 cr.
    An advanced study, in methodological terms, of the application of morals/ethics to environmental issues (understood in social, ecological and economic terms).
  
  • ES 614 - Coastal Environmental Science

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of the interactions of human and ecological systems at the land-ocean interface, including population and near-shore ocean dynamics, human impacts in the coastal zone, and their measure and mitigation.
  
  • ES 620 - Advanced Environmental Economics

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of the application of environmental and ecological economics to environmental problems, including issues of resource depletion, pollution, sustainable development, environmental accounting (input-output analysis), market limits, and issues of environmental governance.
  
  • ES 631 - Statistics and Numerical Analysis

    Credits: 3 cr
    A study of the design and utilization of advanced statistical methods for the large scale, field-based experimental designs and research projects commonly encountered in Environmental Science. .
  
  • ES 635 - Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing

    Credits: 3 cr.
    An advanced methods and theory course on the use of remote sensing and associated Geographic Information Systems in environmental science, with particular emphasis on application to field data collection and large-scale environmental issues.
  
  • ES 641 - Toxicology and Risk Assessment

    Credits: 2 cr.
    A non-lab course for managers and practitioners focusing on the application of toxicological and risk assessment principles as they apply to environmental systems and environmental policy.
  
  • ES 651 - Environmental Restoration

    Credits: 2 cr.
    An exploration of advanced theory and methodology for the maintenance and restoration of aquatic and terrestrial systems, including issues of sustainability.
  
  • ES 695 - Special Problems in Integrated Environmental Science

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A variable-format course addressing an issue in environmental science of current significance from an interdisciplinary or higher-order perspective.
  
  • ES 699 - IES Thesis

    Credits: Variable 1-9 cr.
    A variable-credit course for students working to complete their thesis requirements.

Psychology

  
  • PSY 600 - Professional Orientation and Ethics

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course provides an introductory into the world of professional counseling. The course content includes historical overview, concepts, approaches, philosophy and development of the counseling profession. Professional roles, organizations, credentialing, legal/ethical issues, and professional standards of care are covered.
    Prerequisite(s): Recommended first course.
  
  • PSY 610 - Foundations of Mental Health Counseling

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course is a study of the historical, philosophical, societal, cultural, economic, and political dimensions in mental health practice. This course will address the professional identity, functions, and issues facing mental health practitioners: principles, theories, and practice of community intervention and the Human services network; fiscal and administrative management of programs; and public policy and governmental relations impacting mental health services.
  
  • PSY 613 - Theories of Counseling

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of the major theoretical approaches in counseling including the affective, behavioral, and cognitive theories. Application of theories to basic types of problems in the counseling relationship is included. Includes case studies, class demonstrations and role-playing.
    Prerequisite(s): CP 7601 and CP7619
  
  • PSY 615 - Practicum

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This study provides an opportunity for the student to perform, under supervision, a variety of activities that a regularly employed professional counselor would perform. Practicum provides for the development of counseling skills under supervision. The student must complete 100 clock hours including a minimum of 40 hours of direct service with clients. Experiences are accompanied by regularly scheduled, weekly on campus group supervision designed to provide opportunity for analysis and evaluation of supervised activity. Students enrolled in practicum must complete requirements in program major area. Students changing majors will be required to retake practicum in another program area. Grading system is Pass / Fail.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and department chair required.
  
  • PSY 617 - Human Lifespan and Development

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course studies the individual life over time, and at all developmental stages. Problems of human adjustment faced at all stages of development from conception through retirement, including adjustment issues in the home, school, work place, social groups, and retirement. An understanding of developmental crises in human behavior is also a goal of this course.
  
  • PSY 620 - Group Dynamics and Counseling

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The study of group dynamics and group counseling theories, including ethics, group leadership styles, types of groups, group counseling methods and skills, group developmental stages, and therapeutic factors of group work. Experiential activities included.
    Prerequisite(s): CP 6610 or adviser’s approval.
  
  • PSY 622 - Counseling Diverse Populations

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of the psychological and sociological factors relative to cultural diversity. Special emphasis is placed on current practices utilized in counseling interventions with culturally diverse populations. Special emphasis is placed on current practices utilized in counseling interventions with diverse populations as well as increasing counselor sensitivity to the unique needs and experiences of such populations.
  
  • PSY 627 - Facilitation Skills and Counseling Techniques

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course focuses on the development and application of basic facilitation skills necessary for becoming an effective helping professional. Skills are developed through a combination of didactic, experiential, and demonstrated learning activities to train the beginning counselor in the establishment and maintenance of therapeutic relationships. This course will expose the student to various counseling techniques, developing facilitation skills, and enhance the student’s ability to recognize when to apply various skill and techniques.
  
  • PSY 630 - Research Methodology

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The study and evaluation of research methods commonly used in the social sciences. The course will provide information necessary to understand and apply research processes, synthesize knowledge and writing, and plan and organize research problems for interpretation and application of research results. Application of these skills in the form of a written project using the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) is required. Students enrolled in the Counseling and Psychology programs are required to take CP 7607 Research Methodology only at Bethune University. This research course may not be substituted with another Bethune University research course or one transferred from another university. A grade of “B” or better is required.
  
  • PSY 632 - Evaluation and Assessment

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The study of knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to obtain records, appraise information and write reports regarding individuals. This course Involves integration and use of data from interviews, standardized tests, scales, inventories, and other procedures. Also, this course includes individual and group methods of assessment.
  
  • PSY 638 - Marriage, Family, and Sex Therapy

    Credits: 3 cr.
    The course is designed to provide the student with a conceptual framework for dealing with marriage, family, and sex problems. Students will be equipped with the skills necessary for working with all members of the family.
  
  • PSY 640 - Internship: Mental Health

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course provides an opportunity for the student to perform under supervision a variety of activities that a regularly employed professional counselor in an agency setting would be expected to perform. Experiences are accompanied by regularly scheduled, weekly group supervision. Course equals 300 hours of internship. Students may take up to six semester hours of internship per semester with adviser approval. Each student must complete 120 hours of direct service with clients. Grading system is Pass/Fail.
    Prerequisite(s): Completion of CP 6650 and adviser approval.
  
  • PSY 642 - Theories of Personality

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course examines the critical analysis of major theories and systems of personality. It covers the various assessment tools used to assess personality in individuals. This course will review the personality development over a life time, and will examine the myths relating to personality development. This will include problems related to lifelong maladaptive personality traits, including antisocial personality disorders, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia and dependent personality disorder.
  
  • PSY 647 - Vocational Psychology and Career Development

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course covers the procedures used in obtaining, organizing, integrating, and utilizing educational and occupational information including electronic media. This course covers all the important areas of career development theories, and looks at the historical development of career counseling, counseling special populations, career counseling in educational setting, and career counseling models. Attention is given to the appraisal of interest, aptitude and personality measurements.
  
  • PSY 649 - Legal, Ethical, and Professional Standards

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course assists counseling personnel in acquiring information and understanding necessary to effectively apply legal, ethical and professional standards in the counseling profession. Students will study state and federal laws as it pertain to field of counseling and psychology, and state licensure boards. Student will also review ethical standards of the American Psychological Association (APA), American Mental Health Counseling Association (AMHCA), and the American Counseling Association (ACA).
  
  • PSY 650 - Internship: Mental Health

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course provides an opportunity for the student to perform under supervision a variety of activities in which a regularly employed professional counselor in an agency setting would be expected to perform. Experiences are accompanied by regularly scheduled, weekly group supervision. Course equals 300 clock hours of internship. Students may take up to six semester hours of internship per semester with adviser approval. Each student must complete 120 hours of direct service with clients. Grading system is Pass/Fail.
    Prerequisite(s): Completion of CP 6650 and adviser approval.
  
  • PSY 652 - Behavioral Pathology

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A study of psychopathological disorders with emphasis on the psychological, social, and biological origins. The current classification system used by the American Psychiatric Association is used as a foundation. Diagnosis and treatment planning are emphasized.
  
  • PSY 653 - Diagnosis and Treatment Planning

    Credits: 3 cr.
    A course designed to assist mental health professionals in the understanding and application of a multiaxial system (current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual). Also included is a comprehensive treatment planning strategy for development statements of behavioral symptoms, short-term objective, long term goals and therapeutic interventions. Psychopharmacology treatment interventions are covered.
    Prerequisite(s): CP 7603
  
  • PSY 657 - Drug Education, Prevention, and Intervention

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course studies commonly abused drugs, drug abuse prevention, and treatment techniques. Examines characteristics of people at high risk of become substance abusers/addicted. Students will study intervention and prevention strategies for treating individuals with various drug issues. This course reviews a number of treatment approaches that can be used when providing treatment services to this population.
  
  • PSY 660 - Internship: Mental Health

    Credits: 3 cr.
    This course provides an opportunity for the student to perform under supervision a variety of activities that a regularly employed professional counselor in an agency setting would be expected to perform. Experiences are accompanied by regularly scheduled, weekly group supervision. Course equals 300 clock hours of internship. Students may take up to six semester hours of internship per semester with adviser approval. Each student must complete 120 hours of direct service with clients. Grading system is Pass/Fail.
    Prerequisite(s): Completion of CP 6650 and adviser approval.