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SFTD 7360 - Teaching Practicum
Supervised teaching experience in undergraduate or graduate instruction in family
therapy or related field provides students opportunities to develop their pedagogical
understanding 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
DMFT 5001 - Doctoral Seminar I (1 credit hour; each term first year)
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.
DMFT 5002 - Doctoral Seminar II (1 credit hour; each term second year)
Continuation of DMFT 5001: Students are introduced to professional development
opportunities in diverse settings, specific details regarding professionalism, program and
portfolio requirements, internships, and dissertation. Prerequisite: DMFT 5001. Offered
each term, second year.
DMFT 5003 - Doctoral Seminar III (1 credit hour)
Continuation of DMFT 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: DMFT 5002. Offered third year.
DMFT 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.
DMFT 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.
