L.MHC 635 - Social and Cultural Diversity

Credits: 3

This course provides an understanding of the cultural context of relationships, issues, and trends in a multicultural and diverse society. There will be focus on multicultural and pluralistic trends, including characteristics and concerns within and amongdiverse groups nationally and internationally. Students will identify their own attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences and how these interact with others’. Experiential learning activities will foster students’ understanding of self and culturally diverse clients. Theories of multicultural counseling, identity development, and social justice will be covered, with a focus on multiple perspectives, including individual, couple, family, group, and community. Importance will be emphasized for both working with and advocatingfor diverse populations, including multicultural competencies. Students will earn the counselors’ roles in developing cultural self-awareness, promoting cultural social justice, advocacy, conflict resolution, eliminating biases, prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination.

Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None