Faculty Contact Information:
1. Telephone: number provided in class. I live in France and the first two numbers indicate the country code and the following 0 is only used when calling within France. Otherwise, drop the first 0 when dialing. I have an answering machine and will be able to contact you within 24 hours within the week.
2. Email: My email address is: priceb@faculty.ed.umuc.edu. With the number of students in class writing to me about various issues, it may be helpful to include a summary of any previous correspondence to help my memory.
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Consultation:
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Consultation is available by either email or telephone, although email is probably more reliable as I will also be commuting a lot.
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Required Texts and Readings:
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American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
Okun, B.F., Fried, J., Okun, M.L. (1999). Understanding Diversity. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Thomas, A.J., and Schwarzbaum, S. (2005). Culture and Identity: Life Stories for Counselors and Therapists. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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Supplementary Readings:
Students should expect to read a lot of additional articles to add to the textbook, especially for their papers and exam. A lot of readings will come from journals that discuss multicultural issues, such as Journal of Counseling and Development and Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. Students, therefore, should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library or some other database provider of peer-reviewed full-text journals.
Other readings may be provided in the course content area.
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Recommended Journals:
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Course Description:
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This course is designed to develop appropriate skills, competencies, and knowledge bases and to examine the beliefs of counselors working with people across cultures. The course focuses on researching, reading, and developing an understanding of cultures, customs, languages, traditions, religions, and spiritualities of people across cultures. Emphasis is given to the understanding of counseling individuals in a very diverse world. As this course replaces GUCO 533, students may receive credit for only one of the following courses: GUCO 633, GUCO 533 or EDCP 612.
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Course Goals:
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The goal of this course is to familarize students with various theories, counseling techniques, and a wide range of issues regarding fair, ethical and effective counseling in a world of cultural differences. A broad goal is to expand cultural awareness and knowledge in order to facilitate an appreciation of diversity in lifestyle and orientation, including culture, race, ethnicity, disability, age, language, gender, and sexual preference issues.
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Course Objectives:
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By the end of the course, students will be able to:
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Understand and discuss current theories of multi-cultural counseling.
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Discuss issues of diversity as they relate to counseling practice.
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Be familiar with current literature and research pertaining to the social patterns and counseling needs of various minority populations.
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Develop a more culturally sensitive perspective in the role of professional counselor.
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Describe the impact of the western "world-view" on American society.
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Understand and discuss personal cultural heritage and its impact on the development of counseling skills.
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Demonstrate an enhanced self-awareness of personal strengths, interests, and abilities.
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Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of the legal/ethical issues of multicultural counseling.
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Grading Information:
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Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A 90 - 100%
B 80 – 89%
C 70 – 79%
F 69% and Below
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade "F" is used to designate academic failure. "FN" 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:
The distribution of points for the class are as follows:
1. Project presentation 20% each
2. Self-study project 20%
3. Exam 20%
4. Participation 20 %
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Description of Course Requirements:
1. Project Presentation. Students will work in groups to prepare a class presentation of the counseling issues pertaining to a cultural group that may be found on U.S. society. The population chosen for the group must be decided upon by the third class period. The particular group need not be discussed by the text, but must be approved by the instructor and cannot be about American Indians, which will be discussed by the instructor. The population chosen may not be one in which the students belong to. Guidelines for the presentation are:
...(a) The group will complete an annotated bibliography of a minimum of 10 sources.
...(b) The group will select one article that best describes the issues relevant to working with this diverse population and supply each class member with a copy.
...(c) The group should provide a paper summarizing the main points of their presentation for each class member. The following outline should be followed for your presentation and summary:
......(1) Statistics or other sociodemographic facts about the population.
......(2) Issues or problems unique to the population.
......(3) Counseling or other helping considerations.
......(4) Multicultural concepts relevant to this population. This may include concepts of assimilation & acculturation, world view, racial identity development, experiences of prejudice & discrimination, and significant cultural characteristics, such as shared values, history, and traditions.
2. Self-study project. Using yourself as a subject to further your own multicultural awareness, create a self-analysis of your own cultural heritage. The paper should be approximately 15-20 pages and describe the culture that you belong to. Included in this paper are the influences of social class, ethnicity, religion, geography, and education, as well as personal issues of personality, values, motivation, and family. Also describe your experiences with the issues of race, culture, class, gender and sexual orientation and how they may have influenced your own identity. This is a self-exploratory exercise, so the emphasis in on your depth of application and understanding of multicultural issues. If you introduce new sources that do not come from our class readings, you should use conventional APA format for citation and referencing.
3. Exam: There will be a take-home essay-type exam. You will be given one week to complete the exam. In general, the exam will consist of 3-4 essay items.
4. Participation: Weekly assignments and exercises are provided to help you to process and discuss the concepts of multiculturalism. It is very important that you take responsibility to maintain a dialogue with other studens, especially since it is difficult to teach multicultural notions in an online environment.
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Course Schedule:
The following first five weeks of topics are presented below. Readings and assignments corresponding to the weekly topics will be presented in the Webtycho classroom.
Week One. Introductions. Defining diversity and multicultural competencies. The historical context for understanding multiculturalism.
Week Two. Culture. Worldview. Ethnic identity. Assimilation & Acculturation.
Week Three. Counseling American Indians: a model for discussing groups.
Week Four. Stereotyping, racism, and prejudice.
Week Five. Presentation of first group topics.
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Academic Policies:
Note: Any written assignment in this course may be submitted to TurnItIn.Com. This statement constitutes prior notice.
The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center.
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Faculty Bio:
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I am a Collegiate Professor, teaching both undergraduate psychology and graduate counseling classes for Maryland in Europe. I grew up in the Ozarks of Missouri and have all my degrees from Midwestern institutions (Central Missouri State, University of Kansas, and Iowa State University). This is my eighth year teaching for UMUC in the overseas division. My two major professional interests include the interface between mental health policy and law and cross-cultural issues in counseling and psychology
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