RP 400 Essentials of Distance Education

This course is often the student’s first opportunity to try a distance learning format. It is designed to aid the student through his or her distance education journey. It will help the student know what is expected for distance learning and aid the student in finding the answers needed to accomplish this goal. Finally, this course will prepare the student on how to begin college writing.

TP 500 Survey of Transpersonal Psychology

This course will explore contemporary literature in the field with an emphasis on an integrative vision of psychology that includes intuitive, imaginative, and spiritual states of consciousness.

TP 501 Transpersonal Psychology: Issues in Psychology

Using the psychological and spiritual issues chosen by Jack Kornfield in his book, A Path with a Heart, the student creates personal approaches to the core challenges of life including dreams, depression, and relationships.

TP 502 Transpersonal Psychology Techniques

This course provides grounding in the facilitation of meditational and contemplational healing techniques. Students examine a basic form of mindfulness meditation and approach to Transpersonal Psychotherapy based on Eastern spirituality and transpersonal body-mind-spirit healing theories.

CP 593 Group Work

Students taking this course need to be familiar with the history and theories of group work. This course will focus on procedures, group dynamics, effective group leadership, member selection, as well as ethical and legal aspects of group work. Different styles of group leadership will be discussed.

CP 588 Advanced Case Studies in Counseling

This course is geared toward developing the student’s critical abilities. The course will require the student to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of several transcribed cases.

CP 589 Group Counseling: Concepts and Procedures

Group leaders need to be aware and anticipate problems that arise in group interactions. Students will be provided with an insightful and practical examination of group counseling procedures applicable to children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Also included will be techniques for abused children, juvenile offenders, and clients with chronic conditions.

CP 572 Dealing with Verbal Aggression

Words can and do hurt. As a practitioner, you will become aware of the importance of recognizing verbal attacks. This course will give the student insight into conversations, silences, body language, facial expression, tone of voice and more. Not only will students learn how to recognize verbal attacks, but they will also learn how to defend themselves in any situation.

MP 501 Metaphysics: The Science of Life

There are many systems that try to teach spiritual awareness and convey spiritual truth. The student will learn theories about the anatomy and evolution of consciousness and what it means to live spiritually. This course will shed insight into what metaphysics really is and is not. This course is a synthesis of world religions and beyond. It is designed to teach the laws of metaphysics and how to rise above the physical world and enter a new world of awareness.

PY 501 Whole-Body Connection: A Psychotheological Approach to Cancer Treatment

In this course, the techniques of Dr. O. Carl Simonton and Stephanie Matthews-Simonton, leading practitioners in the field of psychological causes and treatment of cancer, will describe how expectations and belief systems affect the course of cancer. A systematic concept of health is introduced and emphasis is placed on an individual’s reaction to stress as well as other emotional factors, which may have contributed to the onset and progress of the disease. Detailed instructions are given to the practitioner to help patients realize and deal with these elements.

CP 582 Wisdom in Practice of Psychotherapy

This course is based on experiences of treatment and will illustrate a wide variety of situations to prepare the practitioner with experience in counseling or therapy. The course will address psychological theories and their limitations, patient withdrawal, the mythology of therapeutic settings, the subtleties of clinical listening, patterns of therapeutic relationships, the subtleties and difficulties in verbal communications, treatment processes, techniques and boundaries of therapy, as well as the deceptions of curative agents in the psychotherapeutic procedure. This course transcends the direct applications of techniques into a sphere encompassing a global view of the interaction between the client and therapist.

MP 502 Personal Mythology

Mythology has been a part of human life from the very beginning and it is often said that its roots lie in truth. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell have made major contributions to the subject of mythology. This course looks into the personal relationship between mythology and the inner self. It will provide the student with information for self-help therapy and inner exploration using dreams, rituals, and imagination.

CP 562 Psychology of Human Development II

PT 502 Therapeutic Counseling

PT 503 Career Counseling

PT 504 Counseling: Diagnosis and Appraisal

For these 4 classes check the course description book for details

TH 510 MA Thesis – 15,000-word minimum

Upon completion of the required credit hours of coursework, the student will submit a 15,000-word thesis, demonstrating his or her understanding of the field of their choice. Students will have to demonstrate their grasp of the basic concepts in their fields and are encouraged to do a comparative study of techniques or philosophies. Students will be able to apply towards the thesis some of their homework, if relevant to the proposal.

TP 515 Transpersonal Practicum

This course provides grounding in the facilitation of meditational and contemplational healing techniques. It includes Eastern spirituality and transpersonal body-mind-spirit healing theories.