Advising and Courses

Advising Information 

Master's Courses

Ph.D. Courses

Advising Information

Incoming master’s students will be assigned to the Program Coordinator for initial advising. Thereafter, students will then be assigned to a faculty member as an advisor for the remainder of the student’s tenure with the program.

Incoming doctoral students will be assigned faculty advisors for initial advising. Doctoral students are assigned an advisor for academic advising only. Selecting a dissertation chair is a separate process.

Master's and doctoral students should develop a written plan for completing their degree, (which includes a schedule for registering for courses throughout the degree program), when they meet with their faculty advisor for the first time. This plan can be modified as needed, but any changes should be reviewed and approved by the faculty advisor.

Students may register for courses each term without consulting their faculty advisor. Faculty advisors may be contacted for registration advice if problems arise. However, if students are following the schedule of course completion developed previously with their faculty advisor, there is no need for additional consultation.

Students must ensure they have completed all prerequisites for courses before they enroll each term. In the event students register for courses for which they are not qualified, they will be required to drop such courses the first time the course meets. Prerequisite requirements will be vigorously enforced by professors so that the quality of instruction will not be compromised.

Courses in the counseling program fill up early each term and seats are available only on a first come basis. The only circumstance in which professors will agree to admit students to closed classes is when a student’s graduation would be delayed if he or she were not admitted to the class. It is the student's responsibility to explain the necessity of taking the course in order to be considered for admission to a closed class.

Full-time UNO professors have the authority to determine whether a student will be admitted to closed classes that they are teaching. Students should contact the professor directly if they wish to enroll in a closed class. In the event an adjunct professor is teaching a closed counseling class, request for admission to that class should be directed to the Coordinator of the Counseling Graduate Program.

Students who wish to enroll in more than 12 credit hours in the Fall/Spring semester or more than 9 hours in a Summer semester will need to request permission from the College of Education. The form, Request to Override Credit Hour Limits, may be obtained from the coordinator’s office and will be processed within the College of Education.

M.Ed. Program Courses**

Counseling Core (48 Credits)
EDGC 6330 Career Counseling and Life Planning
EDGC 6400 Theories of Counseling
EDGC 6430 Counseling Techniques
EDFR 6430 Psychological Foundations of Education
EDGC 6440 Advanced Counseling Techniques
EDGC 6450 Group Work
EDGC 6452 Introduction to Multicultural Counseling
EDGC 6535 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling
EDGC 6630 Analysis of the Individual
EDGC 6660 Crisis Intervention Counseling
EDFR 6700 Educational Research
EDGC 6810 Introduction to Supervision in Counseling
EDGC 6850 Ethical and Professional Issues in Counselor Education
EDGC 6896 Practicum in Counseling (100 hours required)
EDGC 6897 Internship in Counseling (600 hours required) (6 credits)

Clinical Mental Health Counseling Emphasis (6 Credits)
EDGC 6540 Clinical Mental Health Counseling
EDGC 6840 Family Counseling or EDGC 6860 Introduction to Play Therapy
-OR-
School Counseling Emphasis (6 Credits)
EDGC 6550 School Counseling
EDGC 6830 Counseling Children and Adolescents

Electives (6 credits)

MINIMUM NUMBER OF CREDITS = 60

**To successfully complete the program, the following courses require a grade of “B” or better:

EDGC 6400 Theories of Counseling
EDGC 6430 Counseling Techniques
EDGC 6440 Advanced Counseling Techniques
EDGC 6450 Group Work
EDGC 6535 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling
EDGC 6850 Ethical and Professional Issues in Counselor Education
EDGC 6896 Practicum in Counseling (100 hours required)
EDGC 6897 Internship in Counseling (600 hours required) (6 credits)

Ph.D. PROGRAM COURSES

Entry Level Core (48 Credits)
EDGC 6330 Career Counseling and Life Planning
EDGC 6400 Theories of Counseling
EDGC 6430 Counseling Techniques
EDFR 6430 Psychological Foundations of Education
EDGC 6440 Advanced Counseling Techniques
EDGC 6450 Group Work
EDGC 6452 Introduction to Multicultural Counseling
EDGC 6535 Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling
EDGC 6630 Analysis of the Individual
EDGC 6660 Crisis Intervention Counseling
EDFR 6700 Educational Research
EDGC 6810 Introduction to Supervision in Counseling
EDGC 6850 Ethical and Professional Issues in Counselor Education
EDGC 6896 Practicum in Counseling (100 hours required)
EDGC 6897 Internship in Counseling (600 hours required)(6 credits)

Doctoral Level Core (39 Credits)
EDGC 6439 Advanced Counseling Theories
EDGC 6460 Supervised Experience in Group Work
EDGC 6852 Advanced Multicultural Counseling
EDGC 6880 Advanced Counseling Interventions
EDGC 6991 Doctoral Teaching Practicum
EDGC 6898 Practicum in Counseling (100 hours required)
EDGC 6899 Internship in Counselor Education (600 hours required)(6 credits)
EDGC 6993 Spec Topics in Counselor Education - Consultation
EDGC 6996 Advanced Supervision in Counseling
EDGC 6997 Research Seminar in Counselor Education
EDGC 7050 Dissertation Research (9 credits)

Research Tools and Minor (15 Credits)
EDFR 6705 Quantitative and Qualitative Research Designs
EDFR 6710 Descriptive Statistics and Inferential Hypothesis Testing
EDFR 6715 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

EDFR 6720 Applied Regression and Analysis of Covariance
-OR-
EDFR 6721 Qualitative Research Data Analysis

EDFR 6725 Multivariate Statistical and Covariance Structure Analysis
-OR-
EDFR 6731 Qualitative Research Design and Writing

Counseling Emphasis Area (Minimum of 12 Credits)

MINIMUM NUMBER OF CREDITS = 114