2025 - 2026 Academic Catalog

Master of Arts in Counseling

The Master of Arts in Counseling is a practice-oriented degree designed to equip students with counseling skills for use in ministry, missions or any human services career where counseling is practiced without a professional license. Interpersonal helping skills and counseling models are anchored in a Christian worldview, for the purpose of developing the spiritual, mental, emotional, behavioral, and relational well-being of others.

Major Specific Coursework

Requirements

CO 500Issues and Ethics in Counseling

3

CO 510Counseling & Spirituality Integration

3

CO 520Counseling Models & Strategies

3

CO 530Counseling Skills & Techniques

3

CO 540Group Dynamics

3

CO 550Multicultural Counseling

3

CO 560Marriage & Family Counseling

3

CO 570Addiction & Recovery

3

CO 580Community & Crisis Counseling

3

CO 590Case Management

3

Total Credit Hours: 30