Dr. Stephen Freeman - Department Head
Education North Building, Room 202B
903-886-5613

The Department of Counseling offers an undergraduate minor in counseling. The minor offers the undergraduate an overview of the profession of counseling and can be used as part of a more comprehensive education as one prepares for graduate studies and training in counseling. A bachelor's-level student who minors in counseling has received a basic overview of the helping professions. The graduate should possess listening skills, as well as knowledge of standardized and non-standardized appraisal techniques of group and individual counseling theory, and of career development theory.

Students intending to become certified school counselors may use counseling as an undergraduate minor, but will need to complete a comprehensive major as they prepare for teacher certification. Texas requires certified school counselors to be certified first in a teaching field, and counseling does not count as a teaching field.

The department offers the master's degree for those planning careers in school, community and student affairs counseling positions. The department also offers the Ph.D. in counseling.