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2018-19 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Psychology |
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PY 586 Theories and Techniques of Counseling
Introduction to major approaches to counseling and basic counseling techniques with an emphasis on multicultural and evidence based practices.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and matriculation into a graduate program at Arcadia University. For Counseling students, PY 587 also must be taken either prior to or concurrently.
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PY 586L Multicultural Lab: Self-Awareness II
This series of multicultural labs aims to foster the introspection and self-awareness needed to allow students to excel in their roles as counselors, by expanding their ability to reflect on cross-cultural dynamics as they pertain to their professional roles. Students will be asked to reflect on different aspects of their socio-political identities, including religion, gender, race, ability, class, and sexuality. This lab focuses on learning and managing triggers, gaining awareness of our impact on others and of our self-images, and taking action.
Prerequisite: Matriculated students only.
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PY 587 Practicum
The Practicum is an applied experience in a counseling setting selected to meet individual career goals. This experience is designed to introduce students to clinical observation, interviewing, assessment, and counseling. The course requires a minimum of 100 hours of applied experience, to be completed within six months. For students in school counseling, the Practicum experience must be in school or youth settings.
Prerequisite: Matriculated students only.
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PY 589 Independent Research
Independent research is carried out under the guidance of a faculty member in the psychology department. It involves doing a small scale research project or an extensive literature review culminating in a paper prepared in APA publication style and suitable for publication in a professional journal.
Prerequisite: Grade of B or better in PY 521 and agreement from a faculty member to advise the project. Matriculated students only.
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PY 598 Advanced Seminar
This seminar is an opportunity for a small number of qualified students to explore with the professor an area of psychological interest. The topic is announced prior to registration. Discussion and readings are of an advanced nature.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Psychology Department Chair and the Director of Counseling.
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PY 605 Addictive Behaviors: Substance Abuse and Eating Disorder Counseling
The course surveys the history, etiology, prevalence, and treatment modalities relevant to substance abuse and eating disorders. Special attention is given to short-term and long-term intervention strategies addressing both individual (i.e., the client’s) and systemic (i.e., cultural and familial) issues. The course includes a strong skill building component.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 610 Group Counseling
This study of the major theories, concepts and techniques of group counseling includes a laboratory in which specific group counseling techniques are practiced.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 611 Couples and Family Therapy
This overview of the major theoretical approaches to family and marriage counseling emphasizes practical skills and the ability to plan interventions in a clinical setting. It includes a laboratory in which specific techniques are taught by role-play, discussion and other activities.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 612 Practical Applications for School Counselors
This course provides an in-depth exploration of current trends in the school counseling field. Students review the practical tools counselors need to design and implement appropriate school counseling programs based on the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) National Model. Students explore and critically analyze each of the four components of this model while engaging in hands-on and performance-based activities.
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PY 613 Family Counseling
This graduate course is designed to introduce students to the history, theory, and evidence-based approaches in family/systems counseling. Students will become familiar with theories regarding family functioning; develop interviewing and assessment skills specific to working with families; be able to use theories, assessment data, and research evidence to conceptualize family issues and create treatment plans; apply evidence-based techniques; explore the influence of multicultural factors on family functioning and understand their implications for counseling; and, become aware of one’s own biases and their impact on the therapeutic processes.
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PY 614 Couples Counseling
This graduate course is designed to introduce students to the history, theory, and evidence-based approaches in couples counseling. Students will become familiar with theories regarding couples’ functioning; develop interviewing and assessment skills specific to working with couples; be able to use theories, assessment data, and research evidence to conceptualize couples’ issues and create treatment plans; apply evidence-based techniques; explore the influence of multicultural factors on couples’ functioning and understand their implications for therapy; and, become aware of one’s own biases and their impact on the therapeutic processes.
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PY 615 Child and Adolescent Counseling: Clinical and School Applications
This course examines theories of child development and pathology with an emphasis on clinical work with youth presenting with mental health issues in community and school settings. Major types of intervention techniques are explored, including individual, play therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, family and group therapy. Particular emphasis is on childhood mental health and illness and their relationship to school and family functioning.
Prerequisite: PY 516 , PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 618 Evidenced-Based Treatments of Trauma
This course provides an intensive overview of evidencebased research supporting clinical therapy with victims of a variety of trauma-related events. Theoretical issues, legal and ethical dilemmas, and assessment techniques are presented. Individual, group, family and specialized treatment approaches designed to assist persons with trauma-related mental health problems such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are examined and learned through role-plays and discussion.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 620 Advanced Counseling Techniques
This study of advanced micro-skills and techniques of counseling, with a specific focus on cognitive and behavioral techniques, addresses ethical and professional issues. It includes practice/role-plays of specific techniques.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 . Matriculated students only.
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PY 621 Advanced Child and Adolescent Counseling
This course offers advanced cognitive-behavioral skills-based training in assessment and treatment of children and adolescents presenting with a broad range of mental health and illness issues. This course includes a weekly lab designed to provide students with hands on experience in the treatment of youth, while being observed by faculty who are experts in the field.
Prerequisite: PY 516 , PY 572 , PY 586 and PY 615 .
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PY 622 Trauma, Advocacy, and Social Justice
This course is taught using ecological and emancipatory frameworks, paying close attention to sociopolitical (e.g., poverty, discrimination) and ethno-cultural considerations in understanding the prevalence of trauma and the development, conceptualization and treatment of traumarelated symptoms. Specifically, the course addresses topics such as disaster counseling, intimate partner and community violence, historical trauma, and refugee mental health. Students learn skills in both treatment (e.g., disaster response, crisis-intervention, cross-cultural counseling) and prevention (e.g., political advocacy, public education).
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 623 Strategies for Treating Grief and Bereavement
This course introduces the student to the theory and practice of bereavement and grieving. Development issues are discussed as they relate to the bereavement process. This is an introductory course in grief counseling, designed to provide students with basic terminology, theory and concepts about grief and loss, as well as theoretical and practical techniques and interventions relevant to specific types of losses. This course is not a forum for working through personal unresolved losses, but students should be aware that the class will be intense and some personal issues regarding death and grief may surface.
Prerequisite: PY 572 and PY 586 .
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PY 625 Psychological Testing
3 credits
This study of major concepts in psychological testing and measurement surveys major tests
used in each of the traditional areas of psychological assessment: intelligence, aptitude, achievement, interests, personality and behavioral assessment. Emphasis is on correct interpretation of test data. It requires communication of results in written and verbal formats and provides opportunities for the informal administration of psychological tests. Prerequisite: PY521 and 572. Matriculated students only.
Lecture
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PY 626 Assessment in Counseling
This study of major concepts in psychological testing and measurement surveys major tests used in each of the traditional areas of psychological assessment: intelligence, aptitude, achievement, interests, personality and behavioral assessment. Emphasis is on correct interpretation of test data. It requires communication of results in written and verbal formats and provides opportunities for the informal administration of psychological tests.
Prerequisite: PY 521 and PY 572 . Matriculated students only.
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PY 630 Internship in Counseling
6 credits
Practical experience in a counseling setting selected to meet individual career goals. Requires a minimum of 300 hours over the academic year. Includes a weekly seminar that examines professional and ethical issues. Requires written and oral presentations including a formal case study. Practicum is done during final year of study.
Successful completion of this course is required before the degree is conferred.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: completion of a pre-practicum experience (PY587) consisting of at least 100 hours of documented supervised counseling experience in agencies. In addition, the student must have completed PY 492, 493, 521, 625, 572, 586. PY 610 and PY 620 (may be taken concurrently).
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PY 630 A,B,C,D Internship in Counseling
Option A = Mental Health Counseling, 150 hours; Option B = Mental Health Counseling, 300 hours; Option C = School, 210 hours, Option D = School, 420 hours.
(First part of a yearlong internship)
Practical experience in a school or counseling setting is selected to meet individual career goals. The internship requires a minimum of 300 hours over the academic year except for some students in the Mental Health Counseling certification programs. It includes a weekly seminar for an entire academic year. This course includes case-based discussions of professional and ethical issues relevant to either mental health or school counseling, with special emphasis on the ASCA national model for the latter. It requires written and oral presentations. Mental Health Counseling students are asked to present a formal case study. The internship is done during the final year of study. Successful completion of this course is required before the degree or certificate is conferred.
Prerequisite: PY 521 , PY 572 , PY 574 , PY 586 , PY 587 , PY 626 and PY 610 . PY 620 may be taken concurrently. Matriculated students only.
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PY 630A Internship: Mental Health Counseling 150 hrs.
3 credits
(First part of a yearlong Practicum)
Practical experience in a counseling setting selected to meet individual career goals. Requires
minimum of 300 hours over the academic year except for some students in the certification
programs. Includes a weekly seminar for an entire academic year. This course includes case-based
discussions of professional and ethical issues. Requires written and oral presentations including
a formal case study. Practicum is done during final year of study. Successful completion of this
course is required before the degree is conferred.
Prerequisite: Completion of a pre-practicum experience consisting of at least 100 hours of
documented supervised counseling experience in agencies. (For students in the School Counseling
Program, this pre-practicum must be in schools or youth agencies.) In addition, the student must
have completed PY 492, PY 493, PY 521, PY 625, PY 572, PY 586. PY 610 and PY 620
may be taken concurrently. Students in the School Counseling Program also must have
completed PY 501 and PY 502. Matriculated students only.
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PY 630B Internship: Mental Health Counseling 300 hrs.
6
Practical experience in a counseling setting is selected to meet individual career goals. The internship requires a minimum of 600 hours over the academic year. It includes a weekly seminar for an entire academic year. This course includes case-based discussions of professional and ethical issues relevant to mental health. It requires written and oral presentations (e.g., a formal case study). The internship is done during the final year of study. Successful completion of this course is required before the degree or certificate is conferred.
Prerequisite: PY 521, PY 572, PY575, PY 586, PY 587, PY 626 and PY 610. PY 620 may be taken concurrently. Matriculated students only.
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PY 630L Multicultural Lab: Knowledge I
This multicultural lab aims at expanding students’ knowledge of working with various populations. These labs complement the material presented in PY 688 . Topics will include three of the following: disability, gender and intersectionality, Muslim Americans, Native Americans populations, Middle Eastern/Arab populations, religion and spirituality, socioeconomic status.
Prerequisite: Matriculated students only.
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PY 631 Internship in Counseling
6 credits
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PY 631 A,B,C,D Internship in Counseling
Option A = Mental Health Counseling, 150 hours; Option B = Mental Health Counseling, 300 hours; Option C = School, 210 hours, Option D = School, 420 hours.
(Second part of a yearlong internship)
See description and prerequisites for PY 630 A,B,C,D .
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PY 631A Internship: Mental Health Counseling 150 hrs.
3
(Second part of a yearlong Practicum)
Practical experience in a counseling setting selected to meet individual career goals. Requires a minimum of 300 hours over the academic year except for some students in the certification programs. Includes a weekly seminar for an entire academic year. This course includes case-based discussions of professional and ethical issues. Requires written and oral presentations including a formal case study. Practicum is done during final year of study. Successful completion of this course is required before the degree is conferred.
Prerequisite: Completion of a pre-practicum. Experience consisting of at least 100 hours of documented supervised counseling experience in agencies. (For students in the School Counseling Program, this pre-practicum must be in schools or youth agencies.) In addition, the student must have completed PY 492, PY 493, PY 521, PY 625, PY 572 and PY 586. PY 610, PY 630A or B and PY 620 may be taken concurrently. Students in the School Counseling Program must also have completed PY 501 and PY 502. Matriculated students only.
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PY 631B Internship: Mental Health Counseling 300 hrs.
6
(Second part of a yearlong Practicum)
Practical experience in a counseling setting selected to meet individual career goals. Requires a minimum of 300 hours over the academic year except for some students in the certification programs. Includes a weekly seminar for an entire academic year. This course includes case-based discussions of professional and ethical issues. Requires written and oral presentations including a formal case study. Practicum is done during final year of study. Successful completion of this course is required before the degree is conferred.
Prerequisite: Completion of a pre-practicum. Experience consisting of at least 100 hours of documented supervised counseling experience in agencies. (For students in the School Counseling Program, this pre-practicum must be in schools or youth agencies.) In addition, the student must have completed PY 492, PY 493, PY 521, PY 625, PY 572 and PY 586. PY 610, PY 630A or B and PY 620 may be taken concurrently. Students in the School Counseling Program must also have completed PY 501 and PY 502. Matriculated students only.
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PY 631L Multicultural Lab: Knowledge II
This multicultural lab aims at expanding students’ knowledge of working with various populations. These labs complement the material presented in PY 688 . Topics will include three of the following: disability, gender and intersectionality, Muslim Americans, Native Americans populations, Middle Eastern/Arab populations, religion and spirituality, socioeconomic status.
Prerequisite: Matriculated students only.
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PY 686 Special Project
This is an opportunity for students to complete a project (e.g., research, outreach, literature review) or to assist a faculty member with a project relevant to their area of interest. The project, carried out under the supervision of a psychology department faculty member, should be of a substantial nature and yield a manuscript, professional presentation, or other tangible outcome.
Prerequisite: Agreement of the supervising faculty member. Matriculated students only.
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PY 688 Cultural Bases of Counseling
This course focuses on theories, techniques, and cultural issues related to counseling American ethnic and sexual minorities, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Latin Americans, Americans of mixed heritage, lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals. Other social differences are discussed as well, including religious difference, social class difference, and other cultural differences. Specifically, students in this course learn general principles of cultural sensitivity, learn to consider and begin to appreciate cultural perspectives that are different from their own, learn to assess the needs of those from different cultures, learn about ethical issues related to counseling those who are different from themselves, learn how cultural heritage and social experience contribute to development, and learn how the culture and experience of the counselor may impact on the counseling relationship.
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PY 697 Master’s Thesis in Counseling
(3-credit option)
See PY 699 .
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PY 698 Master’s Thesis in Counseling
(3-credit option)
See PY 699 .
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PY 699 Master’s Thesis in Counseling
(6 credits)
This individually initiated and directed set of experiences involves writing an acceptable proposal, carrying out a comprehensive project (e.g., a research project, a program development project, a community service project, or a social advocacy project) that includes the collection and evaluation of quantitative or qualitative data, and writing a professional quality manuscript in APA format. It could also involve presenting the project at an open forum to faculty and students or at a professional conference. The thesis normally requires two semesters (6 credits) and is usually done over the fall and spring semesters. It is designed especially for students who wish to pursue advanced study beyond the master’s level or who plan to make program development and evaluation part of their careers in counseling.
Prerequisite: At least 12 credits, including PY 521 ; grade of A- or better in PY 521 ; overall GPA of at least 3.5; no grade below a B; agreement of the supervising faculty member. Matriculated students only.
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Religion |
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RE 417 Religion and Its Expression in Literature
Through the readings of this course, the student will become acquainted with writers who have religious and spiritual ideas, concerns, questions and doubts. Some of the topics explored are: religious imagery, religion as an institution, historical and cultural influences, identity and community, authority and justice, atonement and redemption, meditation and harmony with nature. Selected authors are: James Baldwin, Berthold Brecht, Albert Camus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Laotzu, Peter Matthiessen, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, and John Patrick Shanley.
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RE 420 Archeology and Religion
The class explores the use of archeology as a method of studying physical structures, scriptures, practices, and ideas that are associated with religion. The class addresses way in which archeology discovers artifacts and produces new descriptions of ancient ways of life. The course analyzes the way that archeology serves as a method of verifying or challenging the historical claims of many religions. Topics include the biblical archeology of the Holy Lands, the Exodus and the monarchy, the archeology of ancient Egypt, the underwater explorations off the west coast of India and the city of Alexandra, and the Mayan civilization and the practice of time-keeping, astronomy, and construction of temples and cities based upon the cosmos. The course includes a trip to the Penn Museum of Archeology, and guest speakers on related topics.
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RE 422 Religion and Personality: Psychology of Religion
Is religion beneficial or harmful to mental health? Does religion balance and heal the self or it is a wish fulfillment, an illusion and neurosis? The conflict between Freud and Jung over the nature of religion is examined. The course explores Fowler and faith and the stages of religious development, James and altered states of consciousness, Maslow and peak experiences, cognitive psychology and Buddhism, and the role of the brain in religious experiences. The potential therapeutic effects of religious experience are assessed.
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RE 425 How Climate Change, Geography, and Technology Shape Religion
The course explores of impact of climate change, geography, and technology on religion during the period of 11,000 BCE to 200 BCE. Utilizing scientific methodologies such as climatology, ethnobotany, biological anthropology, archeology, evolutionary psychology, and cultural ecology, the course uncovers the material forces that shape religion after the end of the ice age. Among the issues to be considered are the global warming that accompanies the end of the ice age, the development of agriculture and the subsequent population explosion, aggrandizers and the emergence of religious elites, the use of megaliths and stone monuments to honor the dead and urban life. The course continues with an examination of the crisis of meaning that occurs in the age of empires and the emergence of the concept of individual salvation during the Axial Age. Finally, the course speculates, as we enter into the age of information and the potential of a new period of global warming, as to the impact of climate change, social media, and new technologies on the character of religion.
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RE 426 Dawn of Humanity and the Origins of Religion
The course examines evidence for the earliest forms of religious experience that mark the appearance of Homo sapiens in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. This evidence is explored from a multidisciplinary approach including cognitive and evolutionary psychology, biological anthropology, neuroscience, archeology, archeoastronomy and art history. A key consideration is the cognitive evolution of the brain and the power of brain to harness its own spiritual energy and power. Among the themes of the earliest manifestations of religious experience to be studied are archaic burial rites, Venus figurine, cave paintings, shamanism and burial mounds and henges. The link between these early forms of religions experience and later forms of religion will be outlined.
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RE 428 The Future in Science and Religion
The class explores the influence of science on religion and culture in the modern and postmodern worlds. The course focuses on four themes of creation: the universe, life, human consciousness, and ecology of the earth. First, the class examines the sacred cosmology of Western Culture that is based upon the creation narratives of Genesis. Then, the class examines the scientific. challenge of astronomy, biological evolution, the neuroscience and human consciousness, and the ecology movement. Issues such as Galileo and the Inquisition, the Theory of the Big band, evolution and intelligent design, human consciousness and religious experience, and ecology and global warming are examined. Graduate Humanities students as well as undergraduate majors in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, Anthropology and Sociology are encouraged to enroll.
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RE 430 Jerusalem: City of Peace or Armageddon
The class outlines the history of Jerusalem from its origins as a small hilltop village in Canaan about 4,000 years ago to its role as the epicenter of political conflict in the world today. The course explores the three religious traditions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which regard Jerusalem as a sacred center. It focuses on the sacred geography of the city, the military invasions and occupations that shaped its landscape and the rulers and empires that dominated its history. Students engage in dialoque on the contemporary situation in Jerusalem including settlements in the West Bank, refugee camps, a Palestinian State, and economics conditions. Students learn about and participate in peacemaking exercises.
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RE 456 Topics in Biblical Studies
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RE 485 Special Topics: Religion
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Theater Arts |
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TH 444 Acting Shakespeare
(Also listed as EN 450 )
The course begins with helping the student to feel the very heartbeat of the work, the students/actors have to know how to decipher and understand a text that may feel strange on the tongue, and they have to discover the text’s tone and tempo, mine its inner richness, and learn how to speak the text with ease. Lectures cover background with studio work and seminars built around improvised scenes along with scenes and monologues that are to be rehearsed outside the class for performance and critique during class.
Prerequisite: Permission of the program Coordinator.
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TH 450 Playwriting
Using the creative approach, the course examines several forms of scriptwriting (e.g., playscript, the screenplay and scripts for audio/visual media), introduces tools of critical analysis through critique of student’s original work, and presents practical aspects of marketing the stage of screenplay.
Prerequisite: Permission of the program Coordinator.
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TH 461 Seminar: Modern Drama
(Also listed as EN 461 )
Founded on the premise that drama is a reflection of the values of the culture that created it, this course introduces students to the main movements in European and American theatre and drama of the past 120 years. After identifying the origins of these movements in continental Europe, students discover how these same movements found expression in contemporary theatre. The course also examines the changes in theatre practice during the period of time that it covers.
Prerequisite: Permission of the program Coordinator.
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TH 465 Children’s Theatre
This study of theory and practice in play production for child audiences explores production techniques, the interrelationship with creative dramatics and children’s literature, and the role of children’s theatre in modern education. This is a course in the multiple aspects and practices of children’s theatre in America. The course examines the theatrical conventions and structures of this distinct area of theatre. The course explores the multiple areas of children’s theatre from performance to puppetry. The course includes writing a paper on a children’s theatre or practitioner in America. The art of children’s theatre is a loss of our present inhibition and a willingness to rediscover the child within. Students discuss and explore all areas of performing for children.
Prerequisite: Permission of the program Coordinator.
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TH 490 Advanced Workshop in Theatre
Individual or small-group projects in acting styles, directing full-length plays, scene and lighting design, theatre management, or other theatre areas. May involve directing or designing of a major college production, a formal advanced class, or other approved topics. Prerequisite: individualized projects require the approval of the instructor or Director of Theatre.
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