Counseling Psychology
Student Learning Outcomes
- Communication:Â Communicate clearly and effectively in both written and oral forms to an intended audience using strategies and methods appropriate to college-level expectations. Students will demonstrate effective communication characterized by written work that is clear, organized, succinct yet exhibits depth of analysis and synthesis, and accurate in mechanics and document.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate strengths and weakness of divergent psychological research paradigms; students will also demonstrate the ability to creatively produce a psychological research design.
- Quantitative Analysis and Reasoning: Students will demonstrate their ability to apply quantitative analytical processes to solving data analysis problems associated with psychological research as evidenced by the appropriate application of descriptive and inferential statistics.
- Ethics: Students will understand the ethical complexity of human interactions in an applied psychological context; students will demonstrate the skill of applying a formal ethical decision-making process; students will demonstrate a thorough understanding of the American Psychological Association’s Code of Ethics; students will understand the underlying values that guide the ethical decision-making process.