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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FAMILY COUNSELING
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FAMILY COUNSELING
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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A graduate-level program in family counseling for public servants who also must provide services to other public servants.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- 32-48 semester/48-72 quarter credits
- Critical Analysis, Annoitated Bibliography, Proposal and Thesis
- All but 9 credits through this program
- 25%-50% concentration from the core curriculum.
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PREREQUISITES:
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A bachelor degree in this field; a recognized license in the field; certified professional membership in the field, including any laboratory, practicum, clinical requirements, or licensure qualifications.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
Social Problems and Social Change
Sociology of the Family
Contemporary Social Issues
Social Construction of Sexuality
Sex Roles and Stratification I
Marriage in Contemporary Society
Sociology of Childhood
The Family in a Changing Society
The Family
Deviant Behavior
Social Relations
Research Methodology |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 340
Title: Social Problems and Social Change
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze social problems and and social change.
- Course Description: Deals with major theories of social change, change in major social institutions and current social problems: distribution of power in society, unemployment, poverty, racism and sexism, the changing role of the family, sexual norms and behavior, drugs and psycho-physical methods of awareness.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 341
Title: Sociology of the Family
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will acquire knowledge about the family as a social institution.
- Course Description: Survey of the family as a social institution. Sturctures and functions of families in the United States, interdependence between the family and other institutions; forces for change in the family.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 342
Title: Contemporary Social Issues
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: Introductory consideration of some 30 current social controversies, such as democracy, capitalism, race and ethnic groups, marriage, the family, crime, international tensions and world order, designed to improve the student's ability to understand current debate and to formulate opinions for her/himself.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 343
Title: Social Construction of Sexuality
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze problems in the field of concentration.
- Course Description: A contemporary analysis of how social class, education, age, peer and family influences, religion and sex roles influence sexuality. Emphasis on sociological critique, analyzing the interacting of societal, psychological and cultural influences.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 344
Title: Sex Roles and Stratification I
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will know what is currently written in this field of concentration.
- Course Description: An examination of the causes and consequences of sex differentaiation and sex stratification at the individual and societal levels. Emphasis on historical and cross-cultural context of sex roles and sex status. Major theories of sex stratification are reviewed.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 345
Title: Marriage in Contemporary Society
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will exhibit knowledge and understanding in field of concentration.
- Course Description: Pivotal decisions in courtship, marriage, sex roles, famly planning, crisis management, divorce and remarriage considered from social, legal and ethical perspectives.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 346
Title: Sociology of Childhood
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will understand the social construction of childhood.
- Course Description: Social construction of childhood; children's social releations and cultures; issues of childcare, poverty, violence and children; effects of children upon adults.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 347
Title: The Family in a Changing Society
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will understand the effect of a changing society upon families.
- Course Description: Changing family patterns; personality development; family unity, predicting success in marriage; the family in transition; crises such as economic changes, death, divorce; family reorganizaton.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 347
Title: The Family in a Changing Society
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will understand the family from the institional viewpoint.
- Course Description: The family considered from teh institutional viewpoint: its historical development and its adaptation to a changing culture; the family system in many cultures.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 348
Title: The Family
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will understand the family from the institutional viewpoint.
- Course Description: The family considered from the institutional viewpoint: its historical development and its adaptation to a changing culture; the family system in many cultures.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 349
Title: Deviant Behavior
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will understand deviant behavior.
- Course Description: Current theories of origin, distribution and control of deviant behavior; examination of processes involved in the career deviance of drug addicts, alcoholics, sexual deviants, gamblers, and mentally disordered.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 350
Title: Social Relations
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to critically analyze social relations.
- Course Description: The student is expected to demonstrate his/her abilities by effective participation in his/her group as well as in periodic written analyses. Problems for analysis are drawn from events in the group. The class is designed as a self-analytic training group.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Counseling
1.3 Course Number: SOC 351
Title: Research Methodology
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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Course Objectives: Student will be able to understand and utilize different methods and construction of research and research projects.
- Course Description: Studies the different methods of research.
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