DAAC-2330-50 - Multicultural Counseling
Lamar State College - Port Arthur
House Bill 2504
Spring 2017 Course Syllabus
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Semester | Spring 2017 | ||||||||||||
Instructor | White, Linda Bottley | ||||||||||||
Phone | (409) 984-6356 | ||||||||||||
whitel@lamarpa.edu | |||||||||||||
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MyLamarPA | Be sure to check your campus E-mail and Course Homepage using MyLamarPA campus web portal (My.LamarPA.edu). When you’ve logged in, click the email icon in the upper right-hand corner to check email, or click on the “My Courses” tab to get to your Course Homepage. Click the link to your course and review the information presented. It is important that you check your email and Course Homepage regularly. You can also access your grades, transcripts, and determine who your academic advisor is by using MyLamarPA. | ||||||||||||
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Course Number | 11805 | ||||||||||||
Course Description | Course Description and Introduction This focus of Multicultural Counseling includes characteristics of minorities and diverse populations encountered by counselors and general issues among those groups which may affect the counseling process. This course will also discuss the need for counselors to identify their own beliefs, ideas, sterotypes and issues related to ethnicity, race, and culture. This course is going to be a hybrid course. This means that part of the course will be Online in Blackboard, and also in class meeting face to face. Refer to the calendar for a basic idea of when you will be meeting in class or online. This course will also have a project that will involve giving a presentation about a particular culture and aspects about that culture that affect substance abuse counseling. |
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Course Prerequisites | None | ||||||||||||
Required Textbooks |
Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals by Wanda M. L. Lee, Graciela Orozco, John A. Blando, Bita Shooshani · Routledge · Paperback ISBN 0415540224 Other web based information, videos, and handouts will be provided by the instructor. |
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Attendance Policy |
Research has shown a strong positive relationship between attendance, participation and college success. 1. Attendance is expected and will be recorded each class. 2. Attendance/Participation represents 150 points of the final grade in the course. 3. For each absence, a student will lose 10 points from their overall Attendance/Participation grade. Students that are more than 15 minutes late to class will be counted absent as well as students that use their cell phones during class time. Students will be allowed to use their cell phones during the allotted break. 4. It is the student’s responsibility to notify the instructor prior to any absence. 5. Excused absences include hospitalization (documentation required upon return) of you or an immediate family member, participation in a college event, or a religious holy day. Prior notification to me for pending absences due to college events or religious holy days is required. |
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Course Grading Scale |
A 990-1100 B 880-989 C 770-879 D 660-779 F 659 and below |
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Determination of Final Grade |
Expectation Points Attendance/Participation (15 x 10) 150 Chapter Quizzes (9 x 50) 450 Discussion Board (4 x 25) 100 Final Exam (1 x 100) 100 Professional Rubric (1 x 100) 100 Research Paper Draft (1 x 50) 50 Research Paper (1x 100) 100 Research Paper Presentation (1 x 100) 100 TOTAL POINTS 1100 |
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Final Exam Date | April 27, 2017 - 5:00 PM | ||||||||||||
Major Assignments |
Week 7 Professional Rubric Week 11 Research Draft Week 13 Research Paper Week 14 Research Presentation Week 16 Final Exam |
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Calendar of Lecture Topics and Major Assignment Due Dates | See syllabus and course calendar uploaded in Blackboard. | ||||||||||||
General Education/Core Curriculum Student Learning Outcomes |
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Program Student Learning Outcomes |
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Identify major counseling theories, key figures, their philosophy, and key concepts 2. Define and explain techniques relevant to the various theories 3. Identify major approaches to treatment. 4. Identify the attitudes and skills that are essential to becoming an effective multicultural counselor COURSE OBJECTIVES Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to: 1. Explain the counselor's responsibility in developing and maintaining cultural 2. competence; 3. Compare and contrast various multicultural counseling theories; 4. Identify and categorize unique issues affecting diverse populations; 5. Identify barriers to treatment; 6. Explain personal values, biases, and prejudices. |
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Course Student Learning Outcomes |
LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Identify major counseling theories, key figures, their philosophy, and key concepts 2. Define and explain techniques relevant to the various theories 3. Identify major approaches to treatment. 4. Identify the attitudes and skills that are essential to becoming an effective multicultural counselor COURSE OBJECTIVES Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to: 1. Explain the counselor's responsibility in developing and maintaining cultural 2. competence; 3. Compare and contrast various multicultural counseling theories; 4. Identify and categorize unique issues affecting diverse populations; 5. Identify barriers to treatment; 6. Explain personal values, biases, and prejudices. |
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Academic Honesty | Academic honesty is expected from all students, and dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated. Please consult the LSC-PA policies (Section IX, subsection A, in the Faculty Handbook) for consequences of academic dishonesty. | ||||||||||||
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Additional Information | |||||||||||||
Important Information | |||||||||||||
ADA Considerations | The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Coordinator, Office for Disability Services, Room 231, in the Madison Monroe Building. The phone number is (409) 984-6241. | ||||||||||||
Copyright Violations |
Some material in this course may be copyrighted. They may be used only for instructional purposes this semester,
by students enrolled in this course. These materials are being used fairly and legally.
No one may distribute or share these copyrighted materials in any medium or format with anyone outside this class,
including publishing essays with copyrighted material, uploading copyrighted material to Facebook or YouTube, or
painting or performing copyrighted material for public display.
Copyright violation is not the same thing as plagiarism. Plagiarism is intellectual dishonesty. Offenses of plagiarism result in lower grades or failing scores, and professors and the college strictly enforce plagiarism rules. There is never any acceptable use of plagiarism. Copyright violation is a legal offense, punishable by large fines and penalties. Copyrighted material can be used if permission from the material’s creator is obtained, or if its use meets the standards of fair use in an educational setting. For example, a student can quote a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in a report without violating copyright but still be guilty of plagiarism if the quotation is not properly documented. If you are in doubt about what material can be freely used, ask your professor or contact the Dean of Library Services, at (409) 984-6216. |
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Assessment Statement |
Assessment is a process by which LSCPA can help you learn better and gauge the level of progress you have made to
attain knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values. It also helps your professors understand how to improve teaching
and testing methods in your classes, and it helps each department understand and improve degree and certificate
programs.
Periodically LSC-PA will collect assessment data for research and reporting purposes, including statistical data and sometimes copies of your work. Be assured that all material the college uses for assessment purposes will be kept confidential. To ensure anonymity, your name will be removed from any material we use for assessment purposes, including video-recorded performances, speeches, and projects. If you object to allowing LSC-PA to use your material for assessment purposes, submit a letter stating so to your professor by the 12th class day. You will still be required to participate in whatever assessments are being done; we just won’t use your data. What’s the difference between assessment and grades? The grades you get on papers, projects, speeches, and assignments are specific types of focused assessment. LSC-PA’s assessment efforts include class grades, surveys, standardized tests, and other tools. |
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Privacy Notice |
Federal privacy laws apply to college students. This means that college employees, including instructors, cannot
divulge information to third parties, including parents and legal guardians of students. Even if the students are
minors, information about their college work cannot be shared with anyone except in very limited circumstances.
Anyone requesting information about a student should be referred to the Registrar. Instructors will be notified in writing by that Office about what information may be released and to whom. Please remember that releasing private information about a student, however innocuous it may seem, can be a violation of federal law, with very serious consequences. Circumstances under which information may be released:
An adult student may submit, to the Registrar, a handwritten, signed note granting permission for release of
information. The note must specify what information may be divulged, and it must specify the name of the person
to whom the information may be given.
The Registrar’s office is located in the Student Center room 303B, and can be reached at (409) 984-6165. |
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College-Level Perspectives |
This course helps add to the students’ overall collegiate experience in the following ways:
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Degree Plan Evaluation |
A Degree Plan Evaluation will help you determine which classes you need to complete your program.
All of the classes that you have taken that apply to your declared major will be listed on the right. If you have a class that still needs to be completed, a “NO” will be listed on the right next to the required class. |
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HB 2504 | This syllabus is part of LSC-PA’s efforts to comply with Texas House Bill 2504. | ||||||||||||
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