This new minor, offered through the Department of Counseling and School Psychology (CSP), builds on CSP’s commitment to facilitating individual, group and systems change in diverse social contexts. The minor introduces students to skills and concepts used to understand and create such change, and to professional career paths such as school and community counseling, clinical psychology, social work, family therapy, and school psychology. It provides immersion in theory and experience-based practice.
Key Features of the Minor
Preparation for graduate study in human services fields such as community, rehabilitation, or school counseling; clinical counseling , or school sychology, social work, or marriage and family therapy
Emphasis on social justice, diversity, and social location issues
Course electives selected from several departments
Core Courses in Department of Counseling and School Psychology
What Will I Learn?
Theories, approaches and helping techniques used in human services fields; for instance, attending and responding skills, conflict resolution, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
Influences of socio-cultural issues on shaping human problems
How to examine gender, ethnicity and class in cultural interactions between clients and human service professionals
Context and systemic influences on the intersection of social change and social justice
What Does the Counseling and Social Change Minor Require?
Two electives and four core courses (18 units)
Electives may be taken from multiple departments as long as they are not applied to your majorClasses offered through the CSP and other departments
Open to all students
How to Sign Up:
Giving the mandated cap on enrollment, we are not providing new minors for fall 2010. However, we will be opening enrillmentin some Counseling and Social Change classes based on our current wait-list/lottery system.
Bring Declaration for Major-Minor form to CSP office
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