COE 630 - Social and Cultural Awareness in School Counseling (3)

The course examines the role of social and cultural contexts on all aspects of human behavior and how that is played out in the educational setting. The course provides an overview of the issues in gender and diverse population counseling. The course assists all counselors to become aware of personal biases in counseling: understand cultural and economic conditions and their impact on counselor, group and client problem solving and how to manage communication issues in the area of counseling. Students will learn about the effects of social, cultural groups, gender and diverse populations on educational environment and be able to develop plans to work with cultural and social groups including their subgroups in the educational setting.