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New Course Proposal, Page
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
New Course Proposal
When completed, this proposal should be submitted to the Office of the Associate Provost for consideration by the College Curriculum Committee.
1. Department (s) proposing this course: Counseling and Communication Skills
2. Title of the course: Counseling in Gender and Work Life
Abbreviated title (up to 20 characters): csl gender & work
3. Level of this course:
___100 Level ____200 Level __X__300 Level ____400 Level
4. Course description as it is to appear in the College bulletin:
(Write in complete sentences except for prerequisites, hours and credits.)
In this course students will explore the meanings of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation, and their role in vocational development and career choice. We will address how the formal and informal types of social control associated with these categories operate in psychological development, vocational choice, and the workplace. This course is interdisciplinary, so articles from a variety of disciplines including counseling, psychology, economics, sociology and anthropology will be read to better understand the changing roles and expectations of men and women. Each of these interdisciplinary readings will be discussed within the framework of counseling theory. Prerequisites: English 201, Psychology 101, and junior standing or above. 3 hours, 3 credits. (Offered spring semesters).
5. Has this course been taught on an experimental basis?
___No
__X_Yes: Semester (s) and year (s): Spring 2004; 2005; 2006
Teacher (s): Prof. Katie Gentile
Enrollment (s): 2004, 9 students; 2005, 14 students; 2006, 28 students
Prerequisites (s): Psychology 101, English 101
6. Prerequisites:
English 201; Psychology 101; junior standing or above
7. Number of: class hours__3__ lab hours____ credits__3__
8. Brief rationale for the course:
This course will be part of both the Counseling and Gender Studies Minors.
It reflects the history of counseling as emerging from within vocational development. However, it takes this history of vocational development and provides a critique by focusing on the ways gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation impact psychological development and therefore career development and opportunities. This course provides an important frame for students to critically analyze and identify some of the assumptions and biases in traditional counseling theory.
9a. Knowledge and performance objectives of this course:
(What knowledge will the student be expected to acquire and what conceptual and
applied skills will be learned in this course?)
Students will learn vocational development theory from a counseling perspective. They will know theories of gender development and how to critique them. They will have a historical perspective of how gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation intersect to impact career development, opportunities and choices, by reading about the history of certain labor forces in the US and the roles gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation played in the creation of our current ideas of women’s and men’s work. They will integrate these theories and critique counseling vocational development theory, in particular as it relates to their own vocational development and their chosen career field. They will have a wider range of options for their own work lives. They will know how to do research, how to use PsychInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Contemporary Women’s Issues, and Criminal Justice Abstracts and how to create an annotated bibliography. They will know how to read, comprehend and identify the main points of a journal article. They will know how to write a clear and concise literature review.
9b. Information literacy:
(Indicate what sorts of information seeking skills will be enhanced by this course,
e.g., use of the internet, access to specialized data bases, literature search skills, etc.)
Students will learn how to:
· Use the Ereserve to download most of their readings, making them more familiar with the John Jay library web page and services.
· They will learn to access PsychInfo, Social Science Abstracts, Contemporary Women’s Issues, and the Criminal Justice Abstracts to locate and read seminal articles on how gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation impact work life in these fields. By keeping a research journal, I will be able to help them hone their research skills.
· They will learn how to do a literature search in order to write their final paper.
· They will learn how to organize and write an annotated bibliography
· They will learn how to write a literature review using interdisciplinary sources.
10. Recommended writing assignments:
(Indicate types of writing assignments and number of pages of each type. Writing
assignments should satisfy the College’s requirements for writing across the curriculum.)
Students will write 5 papers, a research journal and an annotated bibliography, for a total of 20-25 double-spaced, typed pages.
Students will write 2 short autobiographical papers 1-2 pages, doubled spaced and typed, one at the beginning of the term and one at the end. The first will cover their own ideas of how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation have impacted their career opportunities, development and choices. The second will be a revised version of this paper, the same length, but based on their reflections after having read counseling vocational development theory and contextualized it within the other class readings.
Students will write 3, 5-page, doubled spaced, literature reviews, each APA format. The first two will be based on the class readings. For these two assignments, each student will have the opportunity to re-write the paper until s/he meets an acceptable level of proficiency for a literature review.
For the third literature review, students will integrate 5 outside sources with selected class readings. Students will access databases in related fields to create an annotated bibliography of 20 relevant sources with a research journal describing their search terms, databases and findings, and the logic of their choices. They will then choose 5 articles to focus on for a research paper describing how gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation impact the vocational development and career experiences of a worker in their field. Using the 5 outside sources, the student will describe the particular challenges people in their field face on the job based on their particular gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. They will describe how theories of vocational counseling succeed and fail in assisting diverse people in their field. These 3 literature review assignments are designed such that by the end of the class, each student will have written the equivalent of a15-page, interdisciplinary literature review addressing how gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation impact their chosen occupational field.
11. Will this course be part of any major (s) or program (s)?
__X_No
___Yes. Major or program:
What part of the major? (Prerequisite, core, skills, etc.)
It can be used toward the minors in Counseling or Gender Studies.
12. Is this course related to other specific courses?
__X_No
___Yes. Indicate which course (s) and what the relationship will be (e.g., prerequisite,
sequel, etc.).
Although this course is part of the Counseling Minor, it is specifically about vocational counseling, therefore it does not require prior knowledge of clinical counseling theory.
13. It is strongly advised to meet with a member of the library faculty before answering question 14.
If this course was taught on an experimental basis, were the existing library, computer, lab or other resources adequate for this course?
_X__Yes
___No. With whom has this been discussed? What has been recommended?
I have spoken with Ellen Sexton and the resources in the library have been adequate. All readings for this course, other than those from the assigned book, are available to students on ereserve. All materials on ereserve have been cleared for copyright issues and we have approval to use them.
If this course was not taught on an experimental basis, are library, computer, lab or other resources necessary for this course?
___No
___Yes. With whom has this been discussed? What has been recommended?
14. Syllabus and bibliography:
Attach a sample syllabus for this course. It should be based on the College’s model syllabus. The sample syllabus must included a week by week or class by class listing of topics, readings, other assignments, tests, papers due, or other scheduled parts of the course. It must also include proposed texts. It should indicate how much various assignments or tests will count towards final grades. (If this course has been taught on an experimental basis, an actual syllabus may be attached, if suitable.)
In addition, a bibliography in APA format for this course must be attached to this proposal.
15. This section is to be completed by the chair (s) of the department (s) proposing the course.
Name (s) of the Chairperson (s): Dr. Richard Saulnier
Has this proposal been approved at a meeting of the department curriculum committee?
___No __X_Yes: Meeting date: March 2005
When will this course be taught?
Every semester, starting ______
One semester each year, starting ___Spring 2007_
Once every two years, starting ______
How many sections of this course will be offered? ____1_____
Who will be assigned to teach this course? Dr. Katie Gentile
Is this proposed course similar to or related to any course or major offered by any other department (s)?
___No
__X_Yes. What course (s) or major (s) is this course similar or related to?
Sociology 209 Sociology of Work and Jobs
Did you consult with department (s) offering similar or related courses or majors?
___Not applicable ___No _X__Yes
If yes, give a short summary of the consultation process and results.
The sociology class does not use counseling theory as a framework to explore work, nor does it specifically address issues of gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexual orientation. I have contacted David Brotherton in the Sociology Department and they have no objections to this new course.
Will any course be withdrawn if this course is approved?
__X_No
___Yes, namely:
Signature (s) of chair of Department (s) proposing this course:
Date: ______