EDS595 CAREER DEVELOPMENT COUNSELING
| Course Code: | 4540595 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. OYA GÜNERİ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Knowledge of the general history of career counseling.
- Knowledge of the major theories of career development and competence to be able to offer a critique of major counseling theories.
- Knowledge of career counseling processes and techniques.
- Understand how to develop career intervention strategies, using major career counseling theories.
- An understanding of career counseling services for a different school levels.
- Skills and strategies to make educational and occupational decisions and plans, placement, follow-up, and evaluation.
- Knowledge of career assessment tools and information that are relevant to career planning and decision making.
- Skills in career program development planning, organization, implementation, and evaluation.
- An understanding of ethical issues that impact the work of career counselors.
Course Content
Developmental patterns in career choice. Components of career development counseling. Different approaches to career development counseling.