College of Graduate and Professional StudiesCollege of Graduate andProfessional Studies• Bachelor’s degree with a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3. 0 orabove from an institution whose accreditation is recognized bythe Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA);• Personal statement: a double-spaced, three-page (typed) essay,carefully edited for content, grammar, and style that answers thefollowing question: Describe your museum experience (paid,volunteer, internships), including skills learned, duration(full-time/part-time), and special projects. Using specificexamples, explain how this experience, along with youreducational background, has influenced your understanding ofthe role of the museum in today’s world. How has yourexperience shaped your goals in the museum field?• ree letters of recommendation;• A resume;• Official transcripts from all colleges and universities attended;and• Applicants must also interview with a program faculty member.Museum Studies will contact applicants to arrange for aninterview after the application file is complete. Telephoneinterviews will be arranged for applicants who live outside theBay Area.International applicants must have a minimum TOEFL score of 600on the paper-based test, 250 on the computer-based test, or 100 onthe Internet-based test with a minimum score of 4.5 in the writingsection.On occasion, the department will admit a student with a GPA below3.0 on probation. Students admitted with a GPA below 3.0 mustachieve a B or higher during their first quarter in order to continuein the program.Certificate requirementsAll courses are 4.5 quarter units unless otherwise indicated.CurriculumMUS 5003 Issues in Museums I: History and eoryMUS 5004 Issues in Museums II: Finance and AdministrationMUS5321 Museums and CommunitiesAll museum studies students are required to complete one or moremuseum internship(s) in the area of specialization. Internshipsallow students to assume professional responsibilities and gain anunderstanding of a museum’s operations and relationship to themuseum field under the guidance of professionals. Students in theprogram have interned in local, national and international museumsand museum-related institutions.MUS 5975 Internship (7.5)Select ONE of the following specializations:Collections Management (9)MUS 5501 Documentation and CollectionsMUS 5502 Preventive ConservationEducation and Interpretation (9)MUS 5610 e visitor Experience: Learning eories andUnderstanding AudiencesMUS 5612 The visitor Experience: Interpretative Methods andApplicationsTotal units required: 30Sport Psychologye Sport Psychology program provides academically rigoroustraining to help students become effective sport psychologypractitioners. Experiential training is guided by theoretical models,research, ethical principles and how diversity impacts the field ofsport psychology. Students who successfully complete theinnovative program are able to integrate the core elements ofcounseling skills and performance enhancement skills within theirpractice.Program Learning Outcomes• Performance Enhancement Skills. e students will be able todescribe, explain, synthesize and apply performanceenhancement techniques with individual performers and teams;• eory. e students will be able to describe, explain, synthesizeand apply theoretical perspectives from Sport Psychology andrelated fields;• Assessment. Students will be able to describe, explain,synthesize and apply various assessment tools in a continuousand evolving process to create effective action plans. Studentswill be able to screen clinical issues;• Counseling Psychology Skills. e students will be able toidentify, describe and explain how to use counseling psychologyskills to develop a working relationship with the client. Studentswill be able to identify, describe, explain and apply how the selfimpacts the client-consultant relationship;• Ethics and Professionalism. e students will be able toidentify, explain, synthesize and critically analyze ethicalprinciples in a professional and culturally appropriate manner.Students will be able to utilize decision making principles andexplain choices made relating to ethical situations;• Multicultural Competence. e students will be able toidentify sources of bias within themselves, integrate conceptsand adapt their skills to work with a diverse range ofpopulations; and• Research. e students will be able to summarize, critique andconduct research in the field of Sport Psychology. Students willassess and apply both established and current research findingsin their scope of practice.Master of arts in Sport Psychologye Master of Arts (MA) Sport Psychology program curriculum isdesigned to expose students to an integrated model of sportpsychology education that includes counseling skills andperformance enhancement techniques, counseling skills as coreelements. e program consists of 77 units which students cancomplete within approximately a two-year process of full-timestudy. Emphasis is placed on training students to understand thetheories that support sport psychology work and be able to applyperformance enhancement techniques in diverse settings. eprogram is offered fully onsite at the <strong>University</strong>’s Pleasant Hillcampus, fully online, and in a hybrid format, through whichstudents can take a combination of onsite and online courses.e JFK <strong>University</strong> MA Sport Psychology Program is one of the fewin the United States specifically designed to integrate counselingskills and performance enhancement techniques within the field ofsport psychology. e sport psychology coursework coversresearch, theory, and the application of psychology to such areas as112 College of Graduate and Professional Studies JOHN F. KENNEDy UNIvERSITy
College of Graduate and Professional Studiesoptimal performance, at-risk youth, and group dynamics. ecounseling skills courses include theoretical and experientiallearning in fundamental counseling skills, group dynamics,psychopathology, and cross-cultural dynamics. Students also studythe fundamentals of consultation and the theories and techniquesof problem solving processes. Students learn how to develop theirown consultation practice.internship Overviewe internships in the Sport Psychology Program are a keycomponent of the educational process. e fieldwork experience isat the heart of the program. It allows students to gain a hands-oneducation in the role of being a professional in the field of SportPsychology. Because of the importance placed on the internships,a student should approach this aspect of the program with awillingness to structure his or her experience in a manner that willoptimize the educational value.e internships will help students:• Learn how to teach performance enhancement techniques inan applied setting;• Increase awareness of the interpersonal relationships betweenthemselves and their clients;• Learn to be aware of their personal style and approach;• Learn to integrate theories and techniques of sport psychologyinto diverse settings;• Learn how to conduct oneself as a professional in the areas offlexibility, accountability, ethical behavior, and responsibility;• Become skilled in educating potential clients on the benefits ofsport psychology skills and securing an internship site;• Network with others in the field as well as with potentialemployers; and• Use Sport Psychology techniques with clients as both life skillsand mental training skills for sport.Project OptionsAll students have a choice of one of the following options:• Research Project: an original thesis that leads to a researchpaper of publishable quality; or• Applied Project: an applied project that culminates in anapplied paper of publishable quality, plus four additionalelective units, totaling 8 units of electives in the MA program.Life enhancement through athletic and academicParticipation Projecte mission of the Life Enhancement through Athletic andAcademic Participation project (LEAP) is to help at-risk childrenand adolescents to succeed in school and life. e “hook” of theLEAP project is participation in interactive and non-traditionalgames or in organized sports. LEAP uses sport participation as acatalyst to help youth learn more effective life skills and copingtechniques. Participation in the LEAP Project is available tostudents proximal to the Pleasant Hill Campus.e LEAP project provides a bridge to opportunity by helpingyouth:• Improve personal decision making;• Recognize choices have consequences;• Promote personal responsibility and accountability;• Improve positive self-concept, self-worth, and self-confidence;• Learn skills to deal with anger and frustration in appropriateways;• Learn to work together to solve problems; and• Learn the discipline necessary to be successful in sports, school,and life.Who LEAP Works With• Student Athletes. e LEAP project works with high schoolstudent-athletes. e overall goal of the LEAP project is to workwith athletic teams on the field and in the classroom helpingstudents, teachers, and coaches build a positive environmentwhere learning is possible. rough working with the athleticteams, the LEAP project provides students with an opportunityto receive academic support and life-skills education and in theathletic arena to learn team-building skills and sport psychologytechniques to improve their performance on the field.• Challenge Camp. e LEAP Challenge Camp works with youthat Orin Allen youth Rehabilitation Facility (OAyRF). e corephilosophy of the LEAP Challenge Camp is to help juvenileoffenders focus on their future. rough an interactive gamesenvironment, the LEAP Challenge Camp provides youth withan opportunity to build social skills; learn cooperation,communication and listening skills; to practice problem-solving,decision-making and planning skills; and to learn appropriateoutlets for anger and stress.• Sport Specific Camp. e LEAP Sport Specific Camp focuseson working with youth in sport. e camps provide anopportunity for youth to learn mental strategies that they canuse both in the sporting arena and in their life. Team building,communication and group problem solving skills, positiveself-talk, and goal setting are the focal point of the camp. eseskills are taught to the youth through participation in their sportand then transferred to the classroom and their life.NOTE: Challenge Camp and Sport Camp happen in the summerquarter only.Portfoliois project involves the students developing a portfolio of theirwork as consultants. is should include at least: one case studyfrom their work; their model of practice; a marketing plan; areflective practice element; and the completed Association forApplied Sport Psychology (AASP) application form. e Portfoliowould be used and assessed directly in the comprehensive oralexamination and should be sent to the examiners at least two weeksbefore the exam.admission requirementsIn addition to the <strong>University</strong> requirements listed previously in thiscatalog, applicants to the Sport Psychology program must submitthe following:• Official transcripts from bachelor conferring institution and anypost-bachelor credits (including other master’s degrees). Withrare exceptions, a 3.0 GPA is required for admission;• A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution.(International applicants to the program must have theequivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree.);• A personal statement, no longer than four double-spaced,typewritten pages. e statement should reflect the applicant’sinterest in the field of sport psychology and rationale forapplying to this program;• ree letters of recommendation which attest to the applicant’ssuitability for the program are required; and• An interview with the Program Chair or a member of the corefaculty is required.College of Graduate andProfessional StudiesJOHN F. KENNEDy UNIvERSITy College of Graduate and Professional Studies 113
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