Faculty Contact Information:
Email-DorisBrodie@hotmail.com
Address: Kieler Weg 2C
69181 Leimen
Phone 06224-702879
Fax 06224 702886
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Consultation:
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Please email me or speak with me after class if you have comments, concerns or want to discuss course related matters.
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Required Texts and Readings:
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Zunker, V.G. (2002). Career Counseling. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
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Supplementary Readings:
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All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at http://www.umuc.edu/library/. The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students’ research and writing skills.
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Course Description:
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This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of career development as it impacts on individuals throughout the life span. A basic assumption of the course is that understanding the adjustment of individuals is highly dependent upon understanding the choices they have made throughout their lives. Emphasis is placed on career and vocational choice theories, counseling delivery systems, career information, and social and psychological factors in career decision-making. Formal and informal occupational classification systems are covered. A great deal of emphasis is placed on practical applications of career theory to individual counseling, group guidance, job search and placement, and career adjustment. Students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: GUCO 508 or EDCP 611.
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Course Goals:
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The course focuses on theory and the development of skills needed to offer career counseling. The class examines the developmental and longitudinal changes people experience in a life span. Information is provided on service delivery models, application of counseling skills, and discussion of key professional issues. The course provides opportunities for students to administer, score, and interpret select career assessment instruments.
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Course Objectives:
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Understand, compare, and contrast the different theories of career development through their own life and through the journey of others.
Understand and apply the process of assessment to their own career development.
Understand cultural and cross-cultural issues related to career development and career counseling.
Identify resource information systems for career guidance and counseling which will include on-line computer resources.
Develop appropriate entry-level skills and strategies to assist individuals in educational, occupational, and career decision making.
Develop appropriate entry-level competencies in acquiring, evaluating, and programming for the dissemination of career information.
Understand the role of current research that refines, and updates theories of career development.
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Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 92%
B 80 – 91%
C 70 – 79%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F(a) is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog, available in your local Education Center or online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs.
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Course Requirements:
Graduate school at the masters level focuses on helping students obtain the education needed for success as professionals in their chosen fields. Thus, UMUC-Europe Graduate Programs and Bowie State University share the common goals of promoting excellence in academic scholarship through thoughtful inquiry and the skillful application of knowledge and theory for the betterment of society.
In order to maximize your graduate educational experience in general and this course in particular, you are required to:
Participate in classroom discussions 10%
Write graduate level papers or case studies 30%
Orally/visually present prepared material 20%
Complete one or more written examination(s) 40%
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Description of Course Requirements:
Participate in classroom discussions: You are expected to come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Usually this requires two to three hours of additional for every hour of a face-to-face class and approximately ten hours of preparation per week for a DE class.
Write graduate level papers or case studies: You are required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Plan on committing approximately 150 hours over the duration of this course to producing professional level deliverables.
Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your research in a professional manner. In a face-to-face course, this typically means an oral presentation accompanied by appropriate visual material. In a DE class, this means creating a visual/textual presentation for your instructor and classmates.
Complete one or more written examination(s): The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary to successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The questions used for this course will either be taken directly from past comprehensive exams or written as though to be included on a comprehensive exam.
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Course Schedule:
This schedule presents 16 units or modules, with each unit corresponding to a regular three-hour weekday meeting, a half-day on weekends, or a full week of DE.
First Meeting: Introductions
Review of syllabus
Clarification of goals, objectives and requirements.
Orientation to subject
Read Chaptters One through Three in Zunker text.Career Counseling Today and
Its Historical Development, Theories of Career Development I & II. (Pages
1-106) Use the UMUC online library to complement and/or augment your
preparation of a two-page paper on one of the theories of career development
described in your readings.
Class discussion
Second Meeting:
Read Chapter Four in Zunker text. Career Counseling Models (Pages 107-158)
Paired learning teams do supplementary learning exercises #'s 3, 5, 7, 9,
10.
Third Meeting:
Read Chapter Five. Techniques for the Career Counseling Intake
Interview(Chapter Five in Zunker text. (Pages 159-187) Career Counseling
Intake Interviews: Case Studies. Discussion and role play activity.
Fourth Meeting:
Read Chapter Six in Zunker text. Career Intake Interviews (Pages 188-205)
Class Discussion and one to two page reaction paper
Fifth Meeting:
Read Chapter Seven. Using Standardized Assessment in Career Counseling.
(Pages 206-233) Research publications listed on page 230 through the mail or
internet and report your findings in a two-page written paper.
Sixth Meeting:
Read Chapter Eight, Self Assesment and a Model for Using Assessment. (Pages
234-252)
Class discussion
Seventh Meeting
Read Chapter Nine. Using Computers for Career Counseling. (Pages 253-275).
Exploration of resources on the internet. Debate- computer assisted career
guidance systems will replace the career counselor. Select yor viewpoint for
oral debate. Submit a one-page paper defending the opposite view.
Eighth Meething:
Read Chapter Ten, Career Counseling for Multicultural Groups. (Pages
278-308). Interview a culturally different person (classmate or or outside
of class). Write a reaction paper.
Ninth Meeting:
Midterm Examination
Tenth Meeting:
Read Chapter Eleven, Special Issues in Career Counseling for Women.(Pages
309-335). Do #3 in Supplementary Learning Exercises. Submit one-page paper.
Role-play exercise #4.
Eleventh Meeting:
Read Chapter Twelve, Special Issues in Career Counseling for Men, (Pages
336-355) Complete #'s 4, 7 and 8.
Twelth Meeting:
Read Chapter Thirteen, Special Issues in Family Systems. (Pages 356-372)
Class discussion on trends in changing family systems.
Thirteenth Meeting:
Read Chapter Fourteen and Fifteen, Career Counseling for Individuals with
Disabilities and Career Counseling for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients.
(Pages
373-423). Research paper 3-5 pages and class discussion
Fourteenth Meeting:
Read Chapters Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen. Implications of Development
Patterns and Research and Career Counseling in Schools. (Pages 426-511)
Select one of the following supplementary exercises for page 481- #2, 4, 7,
or 10. Submit one-two page paper. Discussion on Chapter 18.
Fifteenth Meeting
Read Chapters Nineteen through Twenty One,
Some Perspectives of Work, Career Counseling for Adults in Career Transition
and Career Development of Adult Organizations. (Pages 514-603) Class
discussion and reaction Paper
Sixteenth Meeting
Final Examination
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Academic Policies:
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Please refer to the UMUC – Europe Graduate Catalog, available online at http://www.ed.umuc.edu/general_info/publications/catalogs/ or from your local Education Center, for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
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Faculty Bio:
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Dr. Doris Brodie received her doctorate in education from the Universtiy of Southern California and her M.S. in Counseling and B.S. in elementary education from the University of Central Connecticut. She worked for the Hartford Board of Education in Hartford, Connecticut public school system as a counselor at the high school and middle school level before coming to Europe to work for the Department of Defense Dependents Schools as a counselor. She worked as a counselor on the secondary and elementary school level over ten years before she entered school administration. She is currently an administrator at Heidelberg High School.
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