Counselor Education & Supervision (Ph.D.)
Important: This degree plan is effective for those starting this degree program in fall 2023 through summer 2024. This degree plan will remain in effect for students who do not break enrollment or who do not change degree programs, concentrations, or cognates.
Clinical Prerequisites
- Orientation to Professional Identity & Function
- Ethical & Legal Issues in Counseling
- Human Growth & Development
- Research & Program Evaluation
- Multicultural Counseling
- Counseling Techniques & the Helping Relationship
- Counseling Practicum
- Group Counseling
- Assessment Techniques in Counseling
- Career Development & Counseling
- Psychopathology & Counseling
- Clinical Diagnosis/Treatment Planning
- Counseling Internship
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| COUC 710 | Advanced Group Counseling 1 | 3 |
| COUC 714 | Supervision and Consultation 1 | 3 |
| COUC 715 | Advanced Theory Application and Orientation 1,2 | 3 |
| COUC 730 | Issues in Integration 1 | 3 |
| COUC 740 | Advanced Research Design 1,2 | 3 |
| COUC 745 | Advanced Multivariate Statistics and Quantitative Research 1 | 3 |
| COUC 747 | Instruction in Counselor Education 1 | 3 |
| COUC 750 | Qualitative Research 1 | 3 |
| COUC 810 | Dissemination of Research and Scholarship in Counseling 1 | 3 |
| COUC 850 | Advanced Career Counseling 1 | 3 |
| COUC 860 | Counseling Leadership and Advocacy 1 | 3 |
| COUC 969 | Qualifying Exam | 0 |
| Total Hours | 33 | |
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Required Intensive
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COUC 715 Advanced Theory Application and Orientation (3 c.h.) and COUC 740 Advanced Research Design (3 c.h.) must be completed prior to taking the Qualifying Exam. COUC 715 Advanced Theory Application and Orientation (3 c.h.) is a required first entry course for all students in this degree.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Doctoral Elective Course | ||
| Choose any 3 credit hours of any 700-900 level COUC course not already required by the degree | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 3 | |
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Professional Practice | ||
| COUC 970 | Teaching Internship | 3 |
| COUC 980 | Supervision Internship | 3 |
| COUC 998 | Practicum 1 | 3 |
| COUC 999 | Internship 2,3 | 3 |
| Total Hours | 12 | |
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If the required hours are not completed during the first enrollment in the course the student may enroll in the course a second time
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If the required hours are not completed during the second enrollment in the course the student may enroll in the course for a third time
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Counseling, Research or Leadership and Advocacy Internship
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Dissertation Courses 1 | ||
| COUC 870 | Advanced Research Seminar 2 | 3 |
| COUC 989 | Dissertation Proposal and Research 3 | 3 |
| COUC 989 | Dissertation Proposal and Research 3 | 3 |
| COUC 990 | Dissertation Defense | 3 |
| Ph.D. Candidacy Exam | ||
| Total Hours | 12 | |
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Once the student enters the Dissertation phase, he/she must maintain continuous enrollment (Fall, Spring & Summer semesters) until all degree reqmts. are completed
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Required Intensive
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Any student who is not ready for enrollment in COUC 990 Dissertation Defense (3 c.h.) after completing the second enrollment in COUC 989 Dissertation Proposal and Research (3 c.h.) may be required, as determined by the student’s dissertation chair, to repeat COUC 989 Dissertation Proposal and Research (3 c.h.) until deemed ready for enrollment in COUC 990 Dissertation Defense (3 c.h.)
All applicable prerequisites must be met
Graduation Requirements
- Complete 60 hours
- A maximum of 50% of a post-graduate and doctoral degree may be transferred if approved and allowable, including credit from an earned degree from Liberty University on the same academic level
- 3.0 GPA
- No grades lower than a B- may be applied to the degree
- Successful completion of the Qualifying Exam and the Candidacy Exam
- Degree must be completed within 7 years
- Submission of Degree Completion Application must be completed within the last semester of a student's anticipated graduation date
Program Offered in Online Format
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| First Semester | Hours | |
| COUC 715 | Advanced Theory Application and Orientation 1,2 | 3 |
| COUC 740 | Advanced Research Design 1,2 | 3 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| COUC 810 | Dissemination of Research and Scholarship in Counseling 1 | 3 |
| COUC 860 | Counseling Leadership and Advocacy 1 | 3 |
| COUC 969 | Qualifying Exam | 0 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Second Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| COUC 710 | Advanced Group Counseling | 3 |
| COUC 714 | Supervision and Consultation 1 | 3 |
| COUC 998 | Practicum 3,4 | 3 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| COUC 730 | Issues in Integration | 3 |
| COUC 747 | Instruction in Counselor Education 1 | 3 |
| COUC 750 | Qualitative Research 1 | 3 |
| Hours | 9 | |
| Third Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| COUC 745 | Advanced Multivariate Statistics and Quantitative Research 1 | 3 |
| COUC 980 | Supervision Internship | 3 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| COUC 870 | Advanced Research Seminar 1 | 3 |
| COUC 999 | Internship 5,6 | 3 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| COUC 850 | Advanced Career Counseling 1 | 3 |
| COUC Elective 7 | 3 | |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| COUC 970 | Teaching Internship | 3 |
| COUC 989 | Dissertation Proposal and Research 8 | 3 |
| Hours | 6 | |
| Fifth Year | ||
| First Semester | ||
| COUC 989 | Dissertation Proposal and Research 8 | 3 |
| Ph.D. Candidacy Exam | 0 | |
| Hours | 3 | |
| Second Semester | ||
| COUC 990 | Dissertation Defense | 3 |
| Hours | 3 | |
| Total Hours | 60 | |
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Required Intensive
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Must be completed before taking COUC 969 – Ph.D. Qualifying Exam. COUC 715 is a required first entry course for all students in this degree.
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The practicum can be taken any time after passing COUC 969.
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If the required hours are not completed during the first enrollment in the course the student may enroll in the course a second time.
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If the required hours are not completed during the second enrollment in the course the student may enroll in the course for a third time.
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Counseling, Research or Leadership and Advocacy Internship
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Choose any 700-900 level COUC course not already required by the degree. approved course by Program Director.
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COUC 989 must be taken a minimum of two times. Any student who is not ready for enrollment in COUC 990 after completing the second enrollment in COUC 989 may be required, as determined by the student’s dissertation chair, to repeat COUC 989 until deemed ready for enrollment in COUC 990.
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Once the student begins the program he/she must maintain continuous enrollment (one course per academic year except during the Dissertation phase which requires continued registration and re-enrollment in COUC 989 each term until the dissertation defense is scheduled) until all degree requirements are completed.