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MACP Curriculum

Curriculum

 

Curriculum

The Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology is a 60-hour program designed to prepare generalists with an emphasis on community counseling services. The program is rigorous, but the faculty is supportive and available. The program prepares our graduates to serve Border Region communities in a wide range of needed services and modalities. By graduation, our students demonstrate basic entry-level competence in counseling, (both individual and group), community consultation, assessment, program evaluation and needs assessment. They display professional identities, and ethically provide services using a multicultural perspective. Many can offer their services in both English and Spanish. The MACP uniquely offers a Bilingual (English-Spanish) Counselor Certificate for students desiring to sub-specialize in the provision of linguistically and culturally appropriate services to Spanish-speaking individuals and families. Most students complete the program in 2.5 years. The maximum amount of time a student may take to complete the program is five years. 

Upon graduation from the program, the student is eligible to sit for the Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) exam and apply for the Licensed Professional Counselor Temporary License, LPC- Associate.  Once the application is approved, the graduate may arrange for supervision with an LPC supervisor to accrue the 3,000 post-graduate hours over the subsequent 18 months to three years.