COUN 704 - Foundations of Higher Education and Student Services

Prerequisites
COUN 601 previously, COUN 604 previously or concurrently.

This course introduces counseling students to the field of higher education and student affairs: theory, research, practice, and current issues. As an introduction to this professional field, this course examines the historical, theoretical, and functional foundations of higher education and explores the role(s) of the counselor and student affairs administrators in higher education settings. The course aims to develop and build upon the counselor’s working knowledge of multicultural and diverse client/student populations and consider an equity and inclusion framework to provide culturally relevant and appropriate student affairs interventions and supports by not only understanding and adhering to that framework, but by advocating for social justice in education, and in higher education in particular. Understanding the oppressive foundational constructs of higher education systems provides students with the ability to form their perspectives to develop their careers as counselors.

Course credits: 3