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MACS 5357 – Brief Coaching: An Outgrowth of Brief Therapy
The growing field of coaching draws from concepts associated with brief therapy models,
in particular Solution Focused Brief Therapy. In this course, students will learn the
distinctions between coaching and therapy; credentialing opportunities and potential
career paths as a life coach, career coach, and/or independent educational consultant;
and common theoretical assumptions shared between brief therapy and brief coaching.
The course is designed for students who already have a working knowledge of brief
family therapy models, but wish to broaden their scope of practice and understand the
history and development of the parallel field of coaching.
MACS 5401 – Editing I
This course engages students in the principles and practices that create and sustain hard
copy and online journals. These may vary from a fully-academic focus to literary
materials, but all will create and deliver content that promotes contributions to their
fields. Coursework will encompass all the steps that connect a publication with its
intended audience. Coursework will vary depending on the current stage of a journal’s
development, including duties that enact the realistic responsibilities and opportunities
that anyone can expect while serving on, or leading, a journal in a professional position.
This course is useful for students who intend to pursue a professional role in journal
editing and those who intend to contribute to respected journals or other regular
publications with a high quality standard.
MACS 5402 – Editing II
This course will guide students further through the process of developing a journal that
represents an academic program step by step to its delivery. Coursework will vary
depending on the current stage of a journal’s development, focusing on duties consistent
with the ongoing production of a professional journal. The research, contributor
enlistment, practical development, delivery, and distribution of both hard copy and online
journals will fall within the expertise cultivated in this course. Students, who wish to
pursue editorial positions with journals, or simply improve their understanding of what it
takes to successfully publish in journals, will have an insider’s understanding of the
realities and opportunities that journals provide their communities. (Prerequisite MACS
5401).
MACS 5441 – Current Issues and Trends in Higher Education
Staying abreast of current issues and trends in higher education is critical to becoming a
competent student affairs educator. This course is designed to expose students to a
variety of current issues and trends in higher education that have a dramatic impact on
the student affairs profession and on our work as student affairs educators. Strategies to
address major issues will be discussed.
MACS 5442 – Administration in College Student Personnel Work
This course will examine attributes, skills and institutional conditions within student
personnel work that impact effective administration. Some of the major areas to be
explored include personnel practices, supervision, budget, finance, program
development, short/long range planning, and internal and external governing bodies. An
interactive course design will allow for “hands-on” practical applications and the
development of well-grounded practitioners.
MACS 5500 – Directed Readings in Media and Public Policy
This course examines specific aspects of the media and the role it plays in influencing
and being influenced by public policy. It is designed so it may be taken as an
independent study or with a small group of students so topics of individual research
