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Courses Offered
demands human service providers are likely to experience. Selfunderstanding
and self-reflection is emphasized as a vehicle for
personal and professional growth. Students will examine the different
strategies, and conceptual theories utilized in the human services
counseling process. Emphasis is placed on the ethical, legal,
multicultural, and gender issues that must be considered in all
professional helping relationships.
Prerequisites: ENG 101, PSY 101
CSL 210 Peer Counseling Training
3 hours, 3 credits
A practical survey of counseling approaches and techniques designed
to provide skills in the academic and peer counseling of fellow
students. Major emphasis is on examining assumptions about
helping, building basic observational and communication skills,
facilitating and examining various helping techniques. Participants
will have an opportunity to learn and practice these skills in a variety
of role-playing situations, lectures, experiential exercises, group
discussion and contact with resource persons.
Prerequisites: ENG 101, sophomore standing or above, a cumulative
grade point average of at least 3.0, and an interview with the section
instructor, or permission of the section instructor
CSL 211 Peer Counseling Practicum
3 hours, 3 credits
This course provides a training experience in academic and peer
counseling for John Jay undergraduate students. Students are
required to work as peer counselors for a minimum of four hours per
week under the supervision of a faculty member from the counseling
department. Attendance at weekly seminars involving lectures,
discussions, films, role playing and tapes is also required. In
addition, students must submit a major research paper for the course.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and CSL 210
CSL 220 Leadership Skills
3 hours, 3 credits
This course will focus on developing leadership skills. Students will
learn effective interpersonal techniques for conducting group
meetings including conflict management skills and parliamentary
procedure. The course will focus on the impact of ethnic, racial and
gender issues in groups and organizations and their effect on
leadership. Several class sessions will involve experiences, which
will explore facilitative leadership styles, impediments to effective
communication, self-awareness and listening for hidden agendas.
Videotape equipment will be used to give students the opportunity to
learn how their behavior affects others.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing or above
CSL 233 Multicultural Issues in Human Services
3 hours, 3 credits
This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to multicultural
issues in human service helping professions. The central focus will
be a critical evaluation of cultural competence on both individual and
organizational levels in human service institutions. The impact of
one’s own level of cultural awareness and bias toward self and others
will be examined within the context of how cultural, social,
economic, political and historical factors influence these institutions.
Additionally, the course will explore how various relevant terms
including multiculturalism, diversity, race, culture and ethnicity have
come to be defined and applied from diverse perspectives. Through
the use of reflective writing, narrative analysis, discussion, and
experiential teaching methods, the course will engage participants in
development of cultural self-awareness, general knowledge about
cultural groups and organizational cultural competence in the human
service profession.
Prerequisites: ENG 101, PSY 101, CSL 150 or permission of the
instructor
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