COUN 2721 - CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS IN COUNSELING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to increase multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills in the competencies necessary to effectively work with and relate to ethnically and culturally diverse clients. Students will examine their own culture, attitudes, beliefs and internalized messages. Knowledge and skills in the area of multicultural counseling will be explored and practiced. Application of these skills and knowledge will be evaluated through direct observation in the community. Students will learn about a variety of topics including theories and models of multicultural counseling, intersectionality, social justice and advocacy, implicit bias, cross-cultural communication, microaggressions and generational trauma. Cultural humility will be introduced as a process to help build authentic relationships with clients of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The course will also expose students to historic and current cultural events.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PLAN: Clinical Mental Health Counsel

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