College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

164 of teaching and enhance their teaching skills. Prerequisites: SFTD 6310 and faculty approval. Offered each term. SFTD 7410 – Clinical or Research Internship The Clinical Internship provides students the opportunity to advance their clinical and practice skills while they complete the clinical requirements for program and clinical requirements for MFT licensure. Students who are already licensed can take the Research Internship to expand their research skills and/or work with faculty on a research project. Faculty approval is required. Prerequisites: Successful completion of the Clinical Portfolio Offered each term. SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing (Elective) This writing course is a user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious academic prose. Technical issues are covered that include sentence structure, punctuation, tenses, idea development and presented in a non-technical manner. The focus includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for researching, organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered each term. D.M.F.T: Doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy D.M.F.T 5001 - Doctoral Seminar I (1 credit hour) General orientation to doctoral studies: Students learn advanced ethics, diversity, and social justice while focusing on research, writing, and library skills necessary for authoring papers in doctoral courses and for publications. Students take this 1 credit course each of their first three terms. Offered each term, first year. D.M.F.T 5002 - Doctoral Seminar II (1 credit hour) Continuation of D.M.F.T 5001: Students are introduced to professional development opportunities in diverse settings, specific details regarding professionalism, program and portfolio requirements, internships, and dissertation. Prerequisite: D.M.F.T 5001. Offered each term, second year. D.M.F.T 5003 - Doctoral Seminar III (1 credit hour) Continuation of D.M.F.T 5002: Students are tutored in the skills necessary to develop a successful coursework, clinical, and academic/research portfolios as part of the doctoral program requirements. Prerequisite: D.M.F.T 5002. Offered third year. D.M.F.T 5006 - Introduction to Systems Theory This course provides an overview of theories that use metaphors of system, pattern, interaction, and communication to describe human behavior and relationships as well as the study of the emergence of theories from cybernetics to language studies. Offered each term. D.M.F.T 5007 - Research in Marriage and Family Therapy This course offers a review of quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry, as exemplified in recent marital and family therapy research studies. The course focuses on teaching students to be intelligent, critical consumers of research in the field. Offered winter term.