COUC 504 Multicultural Counseling Help & Tutoring

What COUC 504 covers

The catalog description: This course focuses on the multiple dimensions related to competent multicultural counseling. Major ethnic groups are studied along with the counseling, social justice, and advocacy approaches appropriate to each. In a similar fashion, the overarching cultural context of relationships, including factors such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual values, mental and physical characteristics, education, family values, socioeconomic status, and within group as well as between group cultural differences are examined. Theories of multicultural counseling, identity development, pluralistic trends, and systems-oriented intervention strategies (couple, family, group, and community) are considered. Counselor cultural self-awareness and the role of counseling in eliminating biases, prejudice, oppression, and discrimination are emphasized.

The course develops multicultural counseling competence: understanding culture, identity, privilege and oppression, and counseling diverse individuals and families. The texts are Hays and Erford, Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence, and McGoldrick, Giordano and Garcia-Preto, Ethnicity and Family Therapy.

Eight quizzes (360 points) have no guide here. Each week runs Monday to Sunday, and the final week ends Friday.

Textbook named in the published guide: Hays & Erford, Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence (2018). McGoldrick et al., Ethnicity and Family Therapy (2005). Check the current edition in your Canvas section.

COUC 504 assignments, week by week

Every graded written assignment in the published guide has its own how-to guide below. Quizzes, exams, checklists and class introductions are left out because there is nothing to write.

Week 1: Group Discussion Board Forum 1

A 350 to 450-word thread reflecting on the week's multicultural counseling material, then two 200 to 300-word replies. How to write COUC 504 Week 1 Group Discussion Board Forum 1.

Week 2: Cultural Immersion Project Part 1 Paper

Research your chosen cultural group through 3 scholarly sources and 3 significant media resources, then answer the set questions in 1,200 to 1,400 words. How to write COUC 504 Week 2 Cultural Immersion Project Part 1 Paper.

Week 2: Cultural Immersion Project Part 1 Forum

A 350-word thread based on your Part 1 paper, then two replies of at least 200 words. How to write COUC 504 Week 2 Cultural Immersion Project Part 1 Forum.

Week 3: Group Discussion Board Forum 2

A 350 to 450-word thread reflecting on the week's multicultural counseling material, then two 200 to 300-word replies. How to write COUC 504 Week 3 Group Discussion Board Forum 2.

Week 4: Group Discussion Board Forum 3

A 350 to 450-word thread reflecting on the week's multicultural counseling material, then two 200 to 300-word replies. How to write COUC 504 Week 4 Group Discussion Board Forum 3.

Week 5: Group Discussion Board Forum 4

A 350 to 450-word thread reflecting on the week's multicultural counseling material, then two 200 to 300-word replies. How to write COUC 504 Week 5 Group Discussion Board Forum 4.

Week 6: Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 Paper

Attend and actively participate in 2 events related to your cultural group, then answer the set questions in 1,300 to 1,400 words. How to write COUC 504 Week 6 Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 Paper.

Week 6: Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 Forum

A 350-word thread based on your Part 2 paper, then two replies of at least 200 words. How to write COUC 504 Week 6 Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 Forum.

Week 7: Cultural Immersion Project Part 3 Paper

Interview an individual or married couple from your cultural group for an hour and answer the set questions in 1,600 to 1,800 words, with 2 scholarly and 2 media sources from Part 1. How to write COUC 504 Week 7 Cultural Immersion Project Part 3 Paper.

Week 7: Cultural Immersion Project Part 3 Forum

A 350-word thread based on your Part 3 paper, then two replies of at least 200 words. How to write COUC 504 Week 7 Cultural Immersion Project Part 3 Forum.

Week 8: Group Discussion Board Forum 5

A 350 to 450-word thread reflecting on the week's multicultural counseling material, then two 200 to 300-word replies. How to write COUC 504 Week 8 Group Discussion Board Forum 5.

How COUC 504 is graded

The published guide totals 1,010 points. The five group forums are 50 each (250), the three immersion papers are 70, 100 and 70 (240), the three immersion forums 50 each (150), quizzes 360 and the checklist 10.

The published scale puts an A at 940 to 1010 points.

Week timing in the published guide: Each course module/week begins on Monday morning at 12:00 a.m. (ET) and ends on Sunday night at 11:59 p.m. (ET). The final module/week ends at 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday.

How to approach COUC 504

Choose your cultural group in Week 1: one you have little or no experience with, such as a different ethnicity or religion, the elderly in nursing homes, people with disabilities, the homeless or prisoners. You will attend two of its events by Week 6 and interview a member by Week 7.

Contact organizations early to find events and an interviewee willing to talk for an hour.

Questions students ask

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