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Houses for New Graduate Program in School Counseling
March,
2005—Assumption
College's Graduate School will host open houses for its new graduate
program in School Counseling. These open houses will take place
on April 12 and May 4, 2005, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the
Marriott Room of Taylor Dining Hall. For
more information, or to RSVP for either of the open houses, please
contact Dan Provost at dprovost@assumption.edu
or (508) 767-7426.
The major objective of the Master of Arts in School Counseling is
to prepare students for a career as a school counselor. The program
is designed to meet Massachusetts Department of Education Initial
licensing requirements for School Guidance Counselor (Pre K–8
or 5-12).
The Master of Arts in School Counseling program is designed to provide
students with the theoretical and practical skills and competencies
that are required to be an effective school counselor. Theory, research,
and practice are integrated in a sequential program designed to
meet the challenges of providing comprehensive counseling programs
in contemporary elementary, middle, and high school settings. The
curriculum includes a strong counseling core with an emphasis on
theoretical models, concepts, research based prevention, intervention
strategies, and outcomes based models. Specific competencies needed
for counselors in the school setting including: problem solving,
consultation and collaboration skills, knowledge of evidence based
prevention, and intervention strategies are emphasized. Diversity,
disabilities, multicultural, and school reform issues are central
to implementation of national and state developmental counseling
curriculum models and are imbedded in coursework and practicum experiences.
Coursework is coordinated with lab, pre-practicum, and practicum
experiences to provide the student with multiple opportunities to
gain knowledge, and to develop, refine, and evaluate their counseling
skills within a school setting.
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We anticipate that the first class will enroll in Fall 2005.
* Licensure in school guidance counseling Pre K-8 and 5-12 will
be offered.
* Graduates will be prepared to meet the challenges and demands
of contemporary school settings.
Program details, course descriptions, admission requirements and
application form will be posted on the Web shortly. Please continue
to check the Graduate School Web site at http://www.assumption.edu/graduate.
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