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Courses Required for the Minor

image 2Integrated Core You must successfully complete an integrated core of courses offered by the Department of Counseling and School Psychology.
The four core courses are as follows:

CSP 400 Counseling and the Helping Professions (3)
You are introduced to the counseling and human services field through studying the functions and roles involved in preparing to work in the fields of community counseling, rehabilitation, school counseling, school psychology, marriage and family therapy, clinical psychology, and social work. '

CSP 401 Quest for Identity (3)
You study the wider socio-cultural issues that are influential in shaping human problems. Social location factors such as gender, ethnicity, and class, are examined to help you understand the cultural interactions that occur between human service professionals and their clients. 

CSP 320 Introduction to Counseling Skills and Practices (3)
You learn specific counseling theories, approaches and helping techniques that are utilized in the human services fields.  An emphasis will be placed on learning specific attending and responding skills, conflict resolution, problem solving and appropriate referral and decision-making skills.

CSP 460 Counseling & Social Change (3)
This course provides a context where the structural and systemic influences of social change and social justice are woven together with the three other core themes and the systemic and structural themes addressed in the six additional elective units. The course promotes an awareness of the many different approaches to addressing social justice issues.

Elective Requirements:
One lower division and one upper division elective are required for the minor.  Courses pre-approved for the Minor are listed below.  Specific courses approved as GE requirements (CSP 300; CSP 420; WMNST 310) may also be counted as electives toward the Minor in Counseling and Social Change. However, courses required for your major may not be (double) counted toward the minor. You may select optional elective course if approved by the faculty advisor for the minor.

Lower Division Elective  Requirement:

Choose one lower division course below or gain permission from the undergraduate advisor from the Department of Counseling and School Psychology for another course.

CFD 135             Principles of Family Development (3)
CFD 270             Human Development Across the Life Span (3)
CFD 272             Child, Family and Community (3)
PSY 101             Introductory Psychology (3)
SOC 101             Introductory Sociology: The Study of Society (3)
SOC                  Introduction to Social Problems (3)
SWORK 110         Social Work Fields of Service (3)
SWORK 120         Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare (3)
WMNST 101        Women: Self, Identity and Society (3) 
WMNST 102        Women: Images and Ideas (3) 

Upper Division Elective Requirement:
Choose one upper division course below or gain permission from the undergrad advisor from the Department of Counseling and School Psychology for an optional course. Courses taken for GE credit may also be used for the Minor.

AFRAS 320          Political Economy of Race and Class (3)
AFRAS 331          The Black Family (3)
ASIAN 459          Modern Asian Cultures (3)
ASIAN 460          Contemporary Issues in Filipino-American Communities (3)
ED 451               Introduction to Multicultural Education (3)
CFD 335             Interaction with Families
CFD 536             Divorce and Remarriage (3)
CFD 537             Child Abuse and Family Violence (3)
CFD 560             Theories of Socio-Emotional Development (3)
CFD 578             Conflict Resolution Across the Life Span (3)
CSP 300             Stress Management and Life Planning (3) [GE]
CSP 310             Group Leadership in Educational Settings (3)
CSP 420             Popular Culture and Counseling (3) [GE]
CSP 450             Marriage and Family Therapy (3)
PSY 344             Psychology and Culture (3)
PSY 345             Chicana and Chicano Psychology (3)
SOC 352             Contemporary Social Problems (3)
SOC 436             Society of Health and Illness (3)
SOC 450             Social Change (3)
SWORK 370        Social Policies and Social Issues (3)
WMNST 310        Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3) [GE]
WMNST 360        Women’s Sexuality and the Body (3)
WMNST 536        Gender, Race, and Class (3)
WMNST  572       Women and Violence (3)
WMNST  565       Women: Health, Healing, and Medicine (3)



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