Department of Counseling & Student Development CSD 5600 Cross Cultural Counseling Spring Professor: Dr. Gloria A. Leitschuh Phone: 217-581-7238 E-mail [email protected] Office: Room 2115 Buzzard Hall Office hours: To Be Announced COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to provide an introduction to, and overview of, the challenges and processes of counseling clients in our culturally diverse society. Factors will include race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, mental and physical characteristics. Special emphasis will be placed on becoming aware of one’s own culture in order to view the client’s world. TEXTBOOKS: Sue, D.W. & Sue, D. (2003). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (4th Ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. Adams, M., Blumenfield, W.J., Castaneda, R., Hackman, H.W., Peters, M.I., Zuniga, X. (Eds.) (2000). Readings for diversity and social justice: An anthology on racism, antisemitism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and classism. New York: Routlege. International Programs Newsletter can be found at: http://www.eiu.edu/%7Einterntl/ipnewsletter.pdf OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE: Students will: 1. Develop knowledge of their values and biases and know how they may impact culturally different clients. 2. Become comfortable with differences that exist between themselves and persons from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds. 3. Acquire cognitive understanding of how the sociopolitical systems operate in the United States with respect to its treatment of culturally different group members. 4. Understand multicultural and pluralistic trends, including characteristics and concerns between and within diverse groups nationally and internationally. 5. Explore counselor’s roles in social justice, advocacy, and conflict resolution, cultural self-awareness, the nature of biases, prejudices, processes of intentional unintentional oppression and discrimination, and other culturally supported behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human spirit, mind, or body. 6. Demonstrate methods in which counselors send and receive verbal and nonverbalmessages accurately and appropriately in various multicultural counseling situations. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: As members of the Counseling and Student Development program, we must practice and model for others the highest possible ethical standards. The work you present, should be your own. Any attempt to plagiarize will result in failure of the assignment and of the course, in addition to any action the University may take. Work completed in this class is expected to remain in your personal possession and not to be used to assist any future student who enrolls in the course. CLASS PREPARATION & PARTICIPATION: Class attendance and active participation is required. Much of our work will be in small group work and I am unable to observe your participation if you are not present. Graduate students are expected to have read all required readings and be prepared to engage in interactive discussions about questions posed by the readings. If this is not a good semester for you to do so, please let me know in advance. COURSE ASSIGNMENTS: I. PERSONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY BIOGRAPHY : Submit an eight to ten page paper exploring all of your cultural identities. (50 Points) Body of paper is maximum ten pages. (Excluding title page, abstract, & reference section). See Sue & Sue, Chapter 10. 1. Identify your family origins as far back as you can trace specific ancestors. You may check with relatives, archives, or genealogy web sites. (If nothing is found, speculate about what you believe happened). Specify earliest names, dates and locations, when possible. In other words - Where did you come from and how did you arrive here in the U.S.A. What are your racial/ethnic origins? 2. Describe advantages and disadvantages you and your ancestors may have experienced because of your ethnicity. Examples include values or issues of religion, racial characteristics, economic and social background, language, family patterns or political involvement. Discuss the concept of privilege and identify any and all groups that you belong to which have afforded you privilege, or prevented you from privilege in our society. Be thorough and provide examples from your life. 3. Discuss any know history of disabilities, gender issues, sexual orientation differences, military involvement, or any differences that you may be aware of that have affected you as an individual living in the dominant culture of the United States. 4. Discuss in detail your world view, values, and beliefs, and speculate about how these values might be considered a negative or positive influence when counseling people of different cultural backgrounds. 5.Describe one or two cultural groups that you would feel least comfortable working with and explain why. Don’t be politically correct; be honest. This paper is confidential and your ideas will in no way determine your grade.6. Speculate as to how you might work with people who are different from yourself. ALL PAPERS MUST BE WRITTEN AT THE GRADUATE LEVEL & IN APA FORMAT: Please consult and/or buy the APA manual. (It will make your and my life easier). In the case of this paper what is expected is a title page, an abstract, APA page formating, running head, font size, appropriate headings and margins, appropriate reference section. If you have questions please contact me for consultation ahead of time and before the due date. Body of paper (excluding title page, abstract, and references is 8 to10 pages. 10 pages maximum) I am interested in your ability to summarize. Please have someone proof read your material, if you like. Evaluation is based on the following: Writing and APA format 20 points Unsatisfactory Poor Satisfactory Good Outstanding Clear introductory & concluding paragraph, 1 2 3 4 5 stating main purpose and points of paper. Correct use of headings; clear organizational flow; 1 2 3 4 5 transition paragraphs, sentences, words tell reader where you are going; topic sentences, paragraphs that include only those topics. Reference list and text references in APA format 1 2 3 4 5 Correct, clear sentence structure, with no