Academic Programs - Counseling and Student Personnel Services: College Student Affairs Focus
Program Curriculum
Prerequisites
Students should have successfully completed courses that covered the content of the following University of Georgia courses:
| ECHD 7940 | Research Methods |
| ECHD 7400 | Foundations of College Student Affairs Administration |
| ECHD 7420 | Theories of College Student Development |
| ECHD 7430 | College Student Ecology (or The College Student) |
| ECHD 7440 | Administration in College Student Affairs |
| ECHD 7840 | Internship in Student Affairs |
| ECHD 7060 | Cross Cultural Counseling (or any diversity training course) |
| ERSH 6300 | Descriptive Statistics |
| ECHI 8300 | Law and Higher Education |
College Student Affairs Administration Doctoral Core:
| ECHD 8990 | Research Seminar in Counseling and Human Development Services (taken each semester: part-time students 1 hour/full-time students 3 hours) |
| ECHD 9400 | Seminar in Student Affairs Administration |
| ECHD 9420 | Advanced Theories of College Student Development |
| ECHD 9480 | The College Student |
| ECHD 9410 | Organizational Development, Policy Development and Consultation |
| ECHD 9430 | Environmental and Facilities Management |
| ECHD 9450 | Administrative Practices in Student Affairs |
| ECHD 9470 | Academic Student Affairs |
| ECHD 9460 | Student Affairs Administration Capstone (2 semester hours taken during last fall in program) |
| ECHD 9490 | College Student Outcomes Assessment & Accreditation |
| ECHD 9970 | Research Methods to Doctoral Core |
Research and Evaluation Core:
| ERSH 8310 | Applied Analysis of Variance |
| ERSH 8320 | Applied Correlation and Regression Methods in Education |
| QUAL 8400 | Qualitative Research in Education |
| QUAL 8410 | Designing Qualitative Research |
| ECHD 9000 | Doctoral Research (part-time 3 hours once, 1-2 hours thereafter/full-time 3 hours each semester until prelim defense) |
| ECHD 9300 | Dissertation (12 hours minimum required) |
Specialty (at least 6 semester hours)
Scope and content of specialty is proposed by the student and approved by his or her Major Professor and Advisory Committee. Unless a compelling reason can be given related to career plans, students will declare a specialty in one of the following:
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Supervised Practice
| ECHD 9830 | Administrative Internship in Student Affairs Administration | |
| ECHD 9850 | Teaching Internship in Student Affairs Administration | |
| * All students must complete at least 3-6 hours of internship. Student with 5 or more years of full-time post post-masters professional work experience in student affairs at the time of admission to the program are only required to complete a 3 hour teaching or research internship. Students with less than 5 years of full-time post-masters professional work experience in student affairs at the time of admission must also complete a 3 hour administrative internship. | ||
