COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FOUNDATIONS OF COUNSELING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7039 FOUNDATIONS OF COUNSELING COMPULSORY 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BARIŞ SEÇER

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to provide the understanding of historical development, philosophical extents of counselling and the content of occupation. It is aimed that to bring the students who will be employment and career counseller in the main counselling skills with explaining counselling occupations and characteristics.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define counselling types and context
2   To distinguish career counselling with other counselling types
3   To adapt knowledge that obtaint from counselling theory to career counselling
4   To use cognitive-behavioral approach in counselling process
5   To discuss counselling profession

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Counselling Theory
2 Counselling Types
3 Counselling Environments
4 Career Counselling
5 Counselling Characteristics
6 Counselling Approaches
7 Cognitive-Behavioral Counselling Approach
8 Counselling Relationship
9 Counselling Process
10 Conselling Education
11 Counselling Research
12 Job and Occupation Counselling in Turkey
13 Job and Occupation Counselling in Turkey
14 Job and Occupation Counselling in Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Palmer Stephen (2000), Handbook of Counselling, Routledge.
Kuzgun Yıldız (2000), Meslek Danışmanlığı, Nodel Yayın Dağıtım.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: baris.secer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday-Wednesday 10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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