MASTER OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATION
SPECIAL SUBJECT FIELDS AND ADMINISTRATION
School of Education and Psychology
School of Graduate Studies

ENDORSEMENT AREA: GUIDANCE EDUCATION

The curriculum in Guidance Education is designed to prepare counselors for employment in junior high and senior high schools, junior college, senior college or university, and mental health center settings. This degree consists of 36-42 hours of coursework. Completion of this curriculum will qualify persons for the class AA certificate in the state of Mississippi. The class AA certificate will be issued by the state providing persons seeking certification have at least two years of teaching experience in an elementary or secondary school setting. Persons seeking AA certification who do not have at least two years of teaching experience in an elementary or secondary school setting can satisfy the two year teaching requirement by enrolling in the Guidance Internship course GE 520 (6 hrs.). The primary objectives of this endorsement area are:

  1. to provide a level of instruction for potential counselors that will enable them to produce self-directed persons who are capable of behaving effectively and with personal satisfaction;
  2. to develop competencies in potential counselors in test administration, evaluation, and interpretation;
  3. to provide a level of instruction for counselors that will personify in his/her behavior those academic virtues that symbolize personal commitment to the high mission of educating youth, both in their full actualization of potentiality and also in their dedicated service to the human enterprise;
  4. to provide a level of instruction for the potential counselor that would be exemplified in his/her own professional operations in the counseling interview, the relevancy of research design, and rigorous thinking to the students' efforts at full self-understanding;
  5. to provide a level of instruction for the potential counselor so that his/ her professional conduct should exemplify the "intellectual virtues" of honesty without the distortion of personal bias; broad scope of relevant knowledge; dialectical agility in his/her use of such knowledge; and sensitivity, especially concerning persons.
 

Core Educational Courses...............................................12 hours
     ED 512 Foundations of American Education.................3 hours
     PH 513 Advanced Educational Psychology...................3 hours
     ED 514 Methods of Educational Research...................3 hours
     ED 533 Curriculum (Methods) Development..................3 hours

Required Courses
     GE 508 Fundamentals, Organization and
               Administration of School Guidance..............3 hours
     PH 504 Educational and Psychological Statistics..........3 hours
     GE 510 Techniques of Counseling..........................3 hours
     GE 512 Educational and Occupational 
               Information....................................3 hours
     GE 516 Individual Analysis...............................3 hours
     GE 515 Consultation: Theory and Practice.................3 hours
     GE 513 Group Techniques in Counseling
               and Guidance...................................3 hours
     GE 518 Supervised Practice in Counseling.................3 hours
     PH 502 Community Mental Health Management................3 hours
     PH 514 Theories of Learning and Personality Development..3 hours

Note: Above courses should be taken in the order indicated.

Electives
     GE 507 Basic Guidance....................................3 hours
     GE 517 Guidance Services in the
               Elementary School..............................3 hours
     GE 519 Guidance Services for Exceptional
               Children.......................................3 hours
     GE 521 Guidance Services for students
               with disabilities..............................3 hours
     GE 540 Problems in Guidance..............................3 hours
     GE 509 Placement and Follow-up Services..................3 hours
     GE 520 Guidance Internship...............................6 hours