School
Student Affairs
Division
Counseling
Department
Counseling
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Counseling
Course Number
111
Course Title
Advanced Human Potential Seminar
Credit Hours
2.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
32.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Pre-requisites
COUN-110, COUN-119, COUN-125 or Instructor Permission. C- or better in COUN-110 or COUN-119 or COUN-125.
Catalog Course Description
Use the group process and the tools developed in COUN 110 to further develop life skills that enable each individual to discover his or her potential, and to deal more effectively and efficiently with conflicts, blocks, failures, and life-style problems.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Goal Statement
The goal of COUN-111 is the actualizing of autonomous, healthy persons who can love self and others, and use their own human potential to effectively deal with conflicts, lack of confidence or life style planning problems.
Core Course Topics
- Personal Interactions and Life Experiences.
- Describe how personal interactions and life experiences can have a positive effect on how you live your life.*
- Define self-affirming, self-determining, and self-motivating.
- Analyze 2-3 life experiences that demonstrate how you see yourself and how you can become more self-affirming.
- Identify 3-4 specific experiences that demonstrate how you use your potential, how you live your life, and how you can become more self-determining.
- Values Clarification
- Identify a list of personal values.
- Describe the five (5) most important values in which you presently invest your time that will help you become more self-determining and self-motivated.
- Conflict
- Identify and discuss the four (4) components of conflict (intrapersonal/interpersonal; clashes/blocks; positive/negative; conflict/problem).
- Identify and discuss 2-3 previous conflict situations in defined periods of time to chart your personal history of dealing with conflict.
- Analyze the seven (7) methods of preventing the potential conflicts from occurring.
- Identify one (1) personal conflict, and analyze the conflict using the 12 step conflict resolution/management process for becoming more self-affirming, self-determining, and developing greater empathic regard for others.
- Failure
- Define Failure.
- Discuss the nine (9) questions that help define failure and how to deal with failure to promote becoming more self-motivating.
- Identify, analyze, and share 1-2 personal failures using the nine questions "dealing with failure successfully."
- Identify and set two (2) personal goals that will help you successfully deal with failure and move you toward becoming more self-affirming, self-determining, and self-motivating, and developing greater greater empathic regard for others.
- Human Potential
- Define human potential.
- Discuss the eight (8) step "Discovering Your Potentialities" questions that lead to becoming more self-affirming, self-determining, and self-motivating.
- Identify 3-4 potential helpers and potential killers, and describe how they help or prevent you from maximizing the use of your potential.
- Analyze your response to the eight (8) step "Discovering Your Potentialities" questions, and how you can become more self-affirming, self-determining, and self-motivating. *
- Establish two (2) personal goals to develop specific potentialities.
- Life Style
- Define life style.
- Analyze your current life style.
- Identify 5-8 personal life style changes you desire to make (real me/desired me).
- Identify 2-3 personal examples for each segment of the life style considerations and life style meaning questions that lead toward becoming self-affirming, self-determining, and self-motivating.
- Action Goal Plan
- Describe three (3) personal decisions that will be supported by 2-3 short term goals and 3-4 long term goals that address the decision making process around conflicts, failure, and life style planning.
- Analyze one (1) decision dealing with personal conflict, failure, or life style-planning and the supporting short term and long term goals plans.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
Assessment of student learning may include, but not be limited to, writing assignments, special research reports, interviews and oral reports.
Texts
Human Potential Seminar: A Positive Approach to Self-Development Advance Guide-Handbook, James D. McHolland
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Fall 2019
Review Semester
Fall 2019