All individual assignments, reading, writing, and reflection postings will be done in the asynchronous online format, there will be 4 regular class meetingsin SJSU

1.  - First Class January 30, 2007 - meets at SH 434. 

2.  -March 13 -Room SH 434

3.  -April 3 -Room SH 434

4. -May 15 -Room SH 434

Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

Technology and Skill Requirements: Convenient and dependable access to the Internet is necessary for enrollment in the class. Also, you must have basic computer skills. At a minimum these include the ability to use a word processor, send and read e-mail, download files, conduct Internet searches, and copy and paste paragraphs.

 Course Description

This course is part of the advanced requirements in the counselor education program. It focuses on the theory and techniques of assessing children and adults.

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with an opportunity to examine the concepts of multicultural issues affecting different populations. This semester, we will be reading about different populations:

• Understanding and Counseling Refugees &  Limited English Proficient Population  

• Understanding and Counseling the Gay Population

• International Issues in Mental Health 

Course Goals

• To help students understand a variety of counseling techniques when working with children and families in particularly difficult circumstances in diverse cultural situations.  

• To teach students about community counseling in diverse cultural situations.  

• To assist students to become counselors and change agents in a multi-cultural environment.  

• To expand students’ professional capacity to present information in professional environments.  

• To expand student’s knowledge of issues affecting certain underrepresented populations.

This course is mixed mode –classroom and web based instruction. It meets face-to-face four times as scheduled. Students will regularly need to use the Internet to review lecture notes, keep track of course announcements, get details on assignments, participate in discussions, and interact with the instructor and other students electronically on a weekly basis.