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San Diego State University

Minor in Counseling and Social Change

This new minor, offered through the Department of Counseling and School Psychology (CSP), builds on CSP’s commitment to facilitating individual, group and systems change in diverse social contexts. The minor introduces students to skills and concepts used to understand and create such change, and to professional career paths such as school and community counseling, clinical psychology, social work, family therapy, and school psychology. It provides immersion in theory and experience-based practice.

Key Features of the Minor
  • Preparation for graduate study in human services fields such as community, rehabilitation, or school counseling; clinical counseling , or school sychology, social work, or marriage and family therapy
  • Emphasis on social justice, diversity, and social location issues
  • Course electives selected from several departments
  • Core Courses in Department of Counseling and School Psychology
What Will I Learn?
  • Theories, approaches and helping techniques used in human services fields; for instance, attending and responding skills, conflict resolution, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
  • Influences of socio-cultural issues on shaping human problems
  • How to examine gender, ethnicity and class in cultural interactions between clients and human service professionals
  • Context and systemic influences on the intersection of social change and social justice
What Does the Counseling and Social Change Minor Require?
  • Two electives and four core courses (18 units)
  • Electives may be taken from multiple departments as long as they are not applied to your majorClasses offered through the CSP and other departments
  • Open to all students
How to Sign Up:
Meet with the advisor for the undergraduate minor in Counseling and Social Change to plan out your classes and get the appropriate paperwork signed.
  • Please bring a declaration for Major-Minor form with you when you meet with the advisor.
  • Drop-in office hours are Mondays from 10:00 am to Noon.

Sequence of Courses

Sequence of Courses Chart for Minor

Contact Information

Sarah Kahn, LMFT
Advisor and Program Coordinator

Office Location: North Education Building, Rm 162-B
Office Hours: Mondays from 10:00 am to Noon
Phone: 619-594-5508
Email: cscminor@mail.sdsu.edu

Programs of Study
Community Based Block
Marriage & Family Therapy
School Counseling
School Psychology
Minor in Counseling & Social Change

Specific Requirements for the CSC Minor

Lower Division Elective: Course (3 units)

CFD 135, 270, 272; PSY 101;
SOC 101, 150; SWORK 110, 120;
WMNST 101, 102

CORE: 4 Courses (12 units)

CSP 400 Counseling & the Helping Professions (3)
CSP 401 Quest for Identity (3)
CSP 320 Introduction to Counseling Skills & Practices (3)
CSP 460 Counseling & Social Change (3)

Upper Division Electives: 1 Course (3 units)*

AFRAS 320, 331; ASIAN 459, 460; ED 451;
CFD 335, 536, 537, 560, 578;
CSP 300, 310, 420, 450; PSY 344, 345;
SOC 352, 436, 450; SWORK 370;
WMNST 310, 360, 536, 572, 565
*Optional Course may be approved by faculty advisor