Catalog 2005-2006
Graduate School of Education and Counseling
Information found in this online edition of the 2005-06 Catalog is unofficial and for informational purposes only. The official document of record is the printed edition of the 2005-06 Catalog. For more information, please contact the Dean of the Graduate School.
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Core Program
The graduate Core Program is a place for graduate students in the educational and counseling psychology professions to explore connections between personal identity and professional life within the social, cultural, and environmental contexts in which we live. Interdisciplinary and intercultural in their design, graduate Core Program courses bring students and faculty from diverse professional roles and disciplines together in creative approaches to collaboration, learning, and real world problem solving.
Discovering New Terrain: Conversations at the Borders, 2005-2009
The current theme, to be developed over five years, offers participants opportunities to explore meanings across cultural and intellectual borders and to build sustainable bridges across diverse ways of knowing, inquiring, and understanding. Courses and seminars offered within the Core Program are also designed to inspire participants to consider avenues for competent, responsive service to the diverse populations we serve and to the shaping of a more just, inclusive, and compassionate regional and global culture.
Core Curriculum
CORE 501 - Graduate Seminars
Conceived with the Core theme in mind and designed to include students' suggestions for readings, topics, and projects. Topics have included American Perception of Addiction; The Healing Power of Story; Spirituality, Religious Diversity, and Professional Practice; Bearing Witness: Writing and Social Justice; and Between Here and There: Borders, Boundaries, Edges, and Overlap in Professional Practice. Offered in varied formats--meeting weekends, monthly over two terms, or in a traditional structure--to meet the needs of adult learners.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 or 2 semester hours.
For more information, please visit the Core Program Web site.
CORE 503 - Adult Development in Organizational Life
Exploration of many dimensions of adult life through multiple cultural lenses--including organizational cultures--using literature, biography and autobiography, story, and writings from anthropology, sociology, psychology, education, and organizational theory. Students examine many aspects of life, including approaches to inner life, gender roles, cultural identity, navigating change, and efficacy in groups. Participants consider theories of adult development in the context of their own personal and professional lives.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 3 semester hours.
CORE 504 - Journey Through Change
Application of Joseph Campbell's crosscultural writings on mythology and William Bridges' book The Way of Transition: Life's Most Difficult Moments to understanding the change process. Includes discussion of educational and therapeutic change, as well as topics related to popular culture.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 505E - Adventure-Based Learning: Challenge Course
Off-campus, weekend outdoor course that challenges participants both physically and mentally. Community-building activities to foster self-awareness, trust, communication, leadership, tolerance, and cooperation. Self and group observations through reading and discussions. Emphasis on understanding group dynamics and the experiential learning process as it might be adapted to participants' professional goals and endeavors. Includes overnight camping at a challenge course site near Glenwood, Washington. Introductory meeting on campus, medical consent, and fee required.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 506 - Displacement: Living and Learning in Native America
Participants learn from the historic and contemporary experiences of the people indigenous to the U.S. Drawing from essays, poetry, and short fiction, considers the implications of Native American experience for professionals in counseling and education.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 507 - Maps of Return and Recovery: Native American Resilience
With particular attention to the experiences of contemporary Native American people, supports exploration of the paths of resilience. Ways taken for returning and recovering are evident in the use of maps as a theme in contemporary Native American literature. Following this theme, involves imaginative and actual investigation of recovery and its maps--maps that are sometimes testimony, sometimes instruction, sometimes prophecy.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 508 - Migrant Life: Education and Mental Health in Cultural Context
Concerns and interests of Mexican and Latino migrant farm workers and their families. Students combine academic coursework and teaching of initial English to adults working in the migrant farm community. Participants encounter and process issues of culture and economic class through their own experiences and through readings in education, psychology, and literature that convey the experiences of Mexican and Latino migrants.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 510, 531 - Personal Voice in Professional Writing
Workshop to explore the power of writing to engage diverse perspectives, ideas, and cultures at the restless boundary between personal insight and professional practice. In our search for equity, social justice, and inclusion, collaborative writing in professional life may be the most important writing we do. As educators our own writing is our best teacher, as counselors our written reflections will give us our best advice, and as leaders our work will be improved by writing about the challenges we face. To foster expressive clarity, the class as a writing community examines reading, collaboration, personal voice, critical thinking, and audience.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 510, 1 semester hour. CORE 531, 2 semester hours.
CORE 511, 534 - The Informed Life: The Path of Creativity
Exploration of the integral role of creativity in our personal and professional lives, investigating questions like: What is creativity? What is the role of creativity in human survival? How can we energize our existence through new paths of creative development? Students explore many aspects of creativity, including the sources of creativity, the value of risk taking and failure, the necessity of creativity in organizations, the cultural contexts of creativity, the key role of humor, and ways to include a creative lens in everyday endeavors. Readings are selected by students from a wide range of disciplines.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 511, 1 semester hour. CORE 534, 2-3 semester hours.
CORE 512 - Ways of Seeing: The Gift
Investigating the meaning of gifts as a way of focusing on issues of culture and class, story, family, and the many complex vehicles through which we make meaning in our personal and professional lives. Using cross-cultural, historical, and folklore research, examines how and why we mark our lives with gifts, what they mean, and how they connect individuals, groups, and communities.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 513 - The Work of Paulo Freire
Same as ED 556 (see Teacher Education).
CORE 514 - Ethics and Narrative in the Professions
Teaching, counseling, and educational leadership as ethical and narrative pursuits. Theories of ethics and human development, metaphors of growth and learning, ethical principles in the professions, and particular dilemmas of practice are used as tools for understanding the moral and narrative and cultural dimensions of schools, classrooms, and counseling.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 515 - Hunger and Homelessness
Contextual understanding of the causes and results of hunger and homelessness in America. Students volunteer in institutions that serve the homeless and working poor. Participants should be prepared to interact with people who live on the margins of our society, to confront their own discomfort with hunger and homelessness, and to examine this failure of the American dream. Some class sessions meet off campus.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 516 - Journey in Homeless Youth Education
Direct experience with the homeless youth of Portland. Agencies offering educational opportunities for homeless youth provide the environment for participants to cooperatively work with children and/or adolescents. Participants address resiliency and asset building as applied to homeless youth--particularly within an educational context. The majority of coursework is conducted at the agency site with educational experiences organized around literacy instruction.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 517 - Multiple Perspectives
Amid dialogues about diversity and multiculturalism, "culture," "ethnicity," and "identity" have largely become nothing more than stock phrases. Through a variety of readings, including firsthand accounts of immigration experiences and personal interactions, participants move beyond misconceptions, stereotypes, headlines, and statistics to explore the immigrant experience as it unfolds through individual lives. Finding ways to incorporate insights and discoveries into personal and professional lives is the central goal.
Prerequisite: None
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 518 - Science, Technology, and Society
Same as SCI 510 (see Teacher Education), SS 502.
CORE 518A, 518B - Story as Metaphor
Using the natural, poetic language of storytelling to introduce art practice into day-to-day experience. Through the use of personal anecdotes, observations from daily life, memories, and dreams, students learn that to create art is to remember, and to remember is to engage with your voice and your vision. Participants are encouraged to integrate these practices into their own work with diverse populations of students, clients, and employees in their professional practices.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 518A, 1 semester hour. CORE 518B, 2 semester hours.
CORE 519 - Amish/Las Vegas: Polarities in American Lifestyles
Two communities as symbols of the polarities within ourselves and our society. Las Vegas represents instant gratification, materialism, risk, impulse, excitement, and individualism. The Amish symbolize simplicity, plainness, selflessness, community, slow change, and humility. Explores both subcultures and reflects on the everyday societal, family, educational, and personal tensions that mirror these polarities. Uses interdisciplinary-focused lectures, directed discussions, and videos to illustrate the need to understand how culture affects our daily life.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1 semester hour.
CORE 524 - Creating Collaborative Communities
How professionals can collaborate at work to achieve trust, effectiveness, and growth. Participants examine approaches to collaborative leadership and mutual empowerment that are individually and culturally responsive. Open Space Technology is used to demonstrate processes and skills that facilitate shared learning and high levels of group effectiveness.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 526, 536 - Narrative and Voice: Themes of Gender and Culture
Examines the central need to make meaning from the predicaments and possibilities of human life through story. Readings draw from different cultural traditions in psychology, anthropology, literature, and biography. Participants explore gender and culture as meaning systems that affect individual responses in cognitive, social, and moral realms, drawing connections among their own biographies, individuals they serve, and lives addressed in selected narratives.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: CORE 526, 1-2 semester hours. CORE 536, 3 semester hours.
CORE 531 - Personal Voice in Professional Writing
See CORE 510.
CORE 532A - Ways of Seeing, Ways of Knowing
How individuals construct and are formed by their cultures. Each individual's way of knowing and seeing is influenced by his or her ethnicity, gender, social class, sexual orientation, and learning history. Examines factors that create an individual's experience of what is valuable, aesthetic, acceptable, or taboo. Readings, films, field trips, discussion, and writing help participants articulate their perspectives on self and culture.
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2 semester hours.
CORE 532B - Writing Culture: An Exploration
What cultural habits make us Northwesterners, Italian-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Jewish, or Christian? How do we learn in particular ways when among the Japanese or Native Americans, or as members of a professional community? Culture offers a lens through which to view the world. Each culture's unique and varied patterns act through its beliefs and values, rituals and ceremonies, languages and stories. Writing to explore our own cultures, as well as those of others we meet through reading, travel, and in our everyday lives.
Prerequisite: None
Credit: 1-2 semester hours.
CORE 534 - The Informed Life: The Path of Creativity
See CORE 511.
CORE 536 - Narrative and Voice: Themes of Gender and Culture
See CORE 526.
CORE 537 - Seminar in Moral Development, Ethics, and Imagination
Same as SS 575 (See Teacher Education), ED 575, LA 575.
CORE 538 - Race, Culture, and Power
Same as SS 547 (see Teacher Education), ED 547.
CORE 539 - Cultural Diversity and Professional Collaboration
Culture as a system of meaning. Students examine theory, models of identity, literature, film, and writing, and reflect on experiential learning. Race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic class, and other types of cultural systems are viewed as significant influences in development. Among the key questions: Who am I as a person of multiple cultures? What does it mean to be the "other" based on something one can or can't change? What does it mean to be a member of a nonmainstream group in the Northwest? Do differences matter, and if so, why?
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 2-3 semester hours.
CORE 540 - Envisioning a Sustainable Society
Same as SS 591 (see Teacher Education), LA 591.
CORE 542 - Drama for Learning and Social Action
Interactive exploration introduces teachers, counselors and other professionals to ways of using drama in their work. No theatre background required. Through workshops, readings, and discussion, participants experience drama as both art form and tool for learning and for addressing issues. Reflects a pluralistic drama education perspective that prompts engagement with issues of diversity, examines how cultural knowledge is constructed, critiques the dominant culture, and confronts questions of equity and social justice. Also listed as LA 515, THED 515 (see Teacher Education).
Prerequisite: None.
Credit: 1-2 semester hours.