COUN 6190 - Social and Cultural Foundations

The course objective is to begin building knowledge of the multicultural perspectives of counseling. This course assists students in developing a better understanding of their multiple selves, reference groups, and identities as complex, cultural, and ethnic beings. The course encourages students to reflect and consider how their and their clients’ identities (ethnicity, race, gender, SES, culture, ability, size, gender, spirituality, age, etc.) and systems impact the counseling process. Students will explore their own attitudes, values, and beliefs on issues of privilege, bias, and discrimination. Prerequisites:COUN 5510 , COUN 5520 , and COUN 5910 . This course has both synchronous components with faculty and student interaction via Zoom every week and asynchronous components with faculty and student interaction through Blackboard multiple times each week Credits: 3