Multicultural Awareness Studies - Continuing Education: Texas A&M University

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Multicultural Awareness Studies

Develop skills necessary to encourage a productive and balanced educational setting through Texas A&M's Multicultural Awareness Studies.

You earn 45 professional development hours (4.5 CEU's).

Components

COURSE I: Introduction to Multicultural Counseling

Audience:
School Counselors, social workers, counselors, therapists, psychologists.

Course Objective:
This course presents an overview of the multicultural counseling field. Students will learn the different skills necessary needed to become a culturally competent counselor. Specific emphasis will be on understanding racial identity and acculturation as a way to understand different racial/ethnic groups from a within group and beween group perspective that minimizes group stereotyping. Racial/ethnic groups covered in this course are: White Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian American.
* A special section on sexual orientation issues is included in the course.

Lesson 1: Terminology in Multicultural Counseling
Lesson 2: Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Lesson 3: Acculturation
Lesson 4: Racial Identity
Lesson 5: African American Culture
Lesson 6: Latino Culture
Lesson 7: Asian American Culture
Lesson 8: Sexual Orientation

COURSE II: Understanding and Valuing Cultural Differences

Audience:
K-12 teachers and administrators

Course Objective:
This course gives teachers the awareness and knowledge to work with a variety of different racial/ethnic minority Groups. Students will learn the different skills necessary needed to become a culturally competent educator. Specific emphasis will be on understanding racial identity and acculturation as a way to understand different racial/ethnic
groups without group stereotyping. Racial/ethnic groups covered in this course are: White Americans, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian American.
* A special section on sexual orientation issues is included in the course.

Lesson 1: Terminology
Lesson 2: What makes a culturally competent teacher?
Lesson 3: Acculturation
Lesson 4: Racial Identity
Lesson 5: African American Culture
Lesson 6: Latino Culture
Lesson 7: Asian American Culture
* Lesson 8: Sexual Orientation

Application

Candidates for the Multicultural Awareness program should mail their application (pdf) to Continuing Education Services.

Continuing Education Services
Center for Distance Learning Research
Texas A&M University
1588 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1588

A nonrefundable fee of $30 is required at the time of application.

Program questions should be directed here.

Registration and Cost

The registration cost per course is $125.

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Continuing Education Services Cancellation and Payment Policies

Cancellation
Participants are expected to complete their program of study. If for any reason, the participants are unable to fulfill their obligations, written notification must be submitted to the program director within 30 days of a scheduled module and/or class. A non-refundable cancellation fee will be assessed after payment due dates if written notification is not on file in the Continuing Education Services, Center for Distance Learning Research, Texas A&M University. If notice is received thirty days before the scheduled class, participants will receive their fees minus a cancellation fee of 3% of the original fee. If notice is received less than thirty days prior to scheduled module, the students will receive their fees minus a cancellation fee of 10% of the original fee. Once a class has commenced, there are no refunds.

The University reserves the right to cancel or postpone its programs in the event of insufficient registrations, instructor illness, severe weather, or natural disaster. In the event of program cancellation, registrants will be notified immediately and all fees will be returned in full.

Payment
If a module/class payment is not received on scheduled due date, your registration will be subject to cancellation. In addition, a late fee will be assessed for all registrations past the scheduled due date for payment.