Academic Track Structure 9 courses = 36 credit hours,
practical training = 18 credit hours
Ph. D. thesis = 36 credit hours
ABOUT THE ACADEMIC TRACK
Vision:
A distinguished pioneering academic track in the preparation of professional counselors and supervisors who are able to provide specialized counseling and supervision services of high quality.
Mission
Preparing professional mentors and supervisors who are able to provide specialized advisory and supervisory services by providing teaching, learning and training experiences that are commensurate with the needs of the local and Arab community.
Objectives
- Preparing professional supervisors who are able to provide specialized supervisory services of high quality. Responding to the needs of the local and Arab community to provide specialized mentors and supervisors.
- Contribute to the dissemination of modern scientific knowledge about psychological counseling and its fields and applications.
- Contribute to the development of psychological counseling academic track in centers, institutions and schools that provide counseling services in the local, regional and international community.
The First Stage
- The student studies nine courses, distributed as follows:
- √ Six compulsory courses.
- √Three elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for Ph.D. students.
- The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
- The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the abilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
- Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
- If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.
The Second Stage
● The student is assigned a virtual two course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the bachelor’s level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty minutes.
The Thrid Stage
Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a Ph. D. degree in Education and Social Sciences
- Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a Ph.d degree in Education and Social Sciences The student must pass the prescribed academic courses with at least 70%.
- The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
- The student submits a request to the university administration to register a Ph. D. thesis with a suggested topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
- If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
- The research plan includes the importance of the subject and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the methodology of the study and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the division of the study and its sources.
- The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
- The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
- The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
- In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.
Jury discussion and degree awarding
- The minimum period for preparing a Ph. D. thesis is 16 months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is 7 years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and The approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
- The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
- After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submission a full A copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the discipline, for presentation to the council the faculty.
- It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
- The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 grade, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
- The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
- Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.
- The thesis is approved after public discussion by the jury with one of the grades shown in the following table:
Definition Point Grade Excellent 4.00 A+ Excellent 3.75 A Very Good 3.50 B+ Very Good 3.00 B Good 2.50 C+ Average 2.00 C Pass on probation 1.50 D+ Pass on probation 1.00 D Fail 0.00 F
- The following grades are not taken into account for the semester or cumulative GPA.
Thesis or project in progress : DP Incomplete : I In progress : IP Registration has been suspended : L The grade has not been decided : NGR Did not take the final exam. : NP Transferred course. : T Withdraw from the course. : W The course covers two semesters, the degree is given at the end of the spring or summer semester. : YR There are no credit hours. : NC One credit hour taken as a private student. The credit hours and the degree do not count towards the degree : ND Re-submitted course, only the last grade is used in calculating the GPA. : R Credit taken as a special student. Credit hours and grade counted towards a degree. : S Credits
Before the 2016-2017 fall semester 1 credit point is equivalent to 1 semester lecture hour. In the 2016 – 2017 fall semester the University introduced the ECTS – European Credit Transfer System.Academic Calendar
International Suleiman University calendar is based on the semester system. Each semester has a duration of 15 weeks including the week of the final exam. The summer semester is 10 weeks long, including the final exam.
Core Courses for General Track
Advanced Studies in Scientific Research Methodology
Course code: DESS101
Course name: Advanced Studies in Scientific Research Methodology
Credit hours: 4.00
This course includes a general review of research methods and their components. It also includes the various research designs that are used in experimental studies conducted in the educational, psychological and social fields. It also introduces the characteristics, uses, and factors threatening their validity. This course deals with the use of well-known statistical software in analyzing educational data, such as SAS, SPSS, AMOS software. This course focuses on data entry and organization, and the use of software to examine and analyze data using advanced descriptive, inferential and correlational statistical methods such as ANOVA in its various forms, one-way and factorial. repeated measures, and analysis of variance (ANCOVA). The course also deals with the main correlational designs, such as simple and multiple regression analysis, and paths analysis.
Community Counseling
Course code: DEPY101
Course name: Community Counseling
Credit hours: 4.00
This course deals with the formation and organization of the counseling group and the stages it goes through, the foundations on which collective counseling is based, the general rules for selecting the counselors in the collective counseling, the dynamics of the group, models and strategies of collective counseling emanating from the well-known theoretical foundations such as analytical, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, gestalt, group session management , Dealing with some group problems, and different forms of counselors that the counselor may encounter within the group. The practical part of this course includes helping students to build and develop collective counseling programs that target different counseling groups.
Supervision in Psychological Counseling and its Applications
Course code: DEPY102
Course Name: Supervision in Psychological Counseling and its Applications
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with information and training on the functions of supervision in the administrative, supportive and educational counseling process, models of counseling supervision that include skills development model, personal growth model, integrative model, cognitive-behavioral model and stages of the supervision process, application of the supervision process, methods of training counselors, and development of work programs Counseling, measuring the effectiveness of the counseling program, ethical and legal issues in counseling, training and applications in field supervision.
Diagnosed Mental Disorders
Course code: DEPY103
Course name: Diagnosed Mental Disorders
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to identify the diagnostic methods used in psychological counseling, such as the diagnostic interview, standards and tests that can be employed in the counseling process, and in different areas of life such as the family, the school, and the workplace. The approved course is (DSM-5), how to diagnose it, and learn about modern trends in addressing and treating these disorders. The course also provides the student with the opportunity for practical training in studying and treating a condition that represents one of the common mental disorders.
Advanced Studies in Psychological Counseling
Course code: DEPY104
Course name: Advanced Studies in Psychological Counseling
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with the appropriate opportunity for advanced practical study in the field of psychological and educational counseling through carrying out the following activities: preparing a counseling plan, case study, individual counseling, collective counseling, applying communication skills (listening and influencing responses and skills), preparing and designing counseling programs and handouts And posters. At the end of the training, the student is required to prepare a final report documenting all the activities and events that have been implemented. Students are trained in specialized centers, reform and rehabilitation centers, psychological treatment centers, addiction treatment centers, juvenile centers, government and private schools, and UNRWA, which have counseling services and an educational guide.
Counseling and Community Service
Course code: DEPY106
Course name: Counseling and Community Service
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to develop students’ abilities to solve community problems and contribute to building it, by addressing community mental health and its components, social aspects of mental health and mental disorder, social aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, social policy and mental health, environment and mental health problems, environmental resources and mental health. Human resources and mental health, the relationship between physical health care systems and mental health care, counseling services for specific communities, such as: the elderly, the disadvantaged, cases of chronic mental illness, retirees, addicts, the unemployed, family crises, delinquency, disaster victims, and counseling applications Community: prevention of mental illness, promotion of mental health, increased social support, reduction of social stress, diagnosis and intervention in social conditions, provision of psychological counseling in the community, development of daily life skills for the helpless in the community, evaluation of social services.
Advanced Methods in Qualitative Research
Course code: DEPY107
Course name: Advanced Methods in Qualitative Research
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to teach students how to conduct qualitative research in hypothetical research, and to provide them with knowledge about the nature, characteristics, designs, and procedures of qualitative research, planning for qualitative research, methods for selecting a sample in qualitative research, methods for collecting information, methods for verifying the credibility of qualitative data, methods for analyzing it, and how to Preparing a qualitative research report, focusing on analytical, ethnographic and procedural research.
Elective Courses for General Track
Career Guidance
Course code: DEPY151
Course name: Career Guidance
Credit hours: 4.00
Career Guidance
This course aims to study the factors associated with sound professional choice, emphasizing the professional growth process and its impact on the individual’s lifestyle and personality, and the professional decision-making process, in addition to the various theories of growth and professional choice. The course deals with evaluation strategies in career counseling, in addition to the reality of career counseling locally. Internationally, the applied side of this course includes training students to use and apply tests of different professional inclinations and trends, such as the Kudo test, the Super test, the Holland test, and other professional tests. The practical side of this course includes the student designing a career guidance plan based on one of the theories professional and applied in practice.
Planning and Managing School Counseling Programs
Course code: DEPY152
Course name: Planning and Managing School Counseling Programs
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to provide the student with the skills to plan an applied program in psychological and educational counseling that serves the school or educational institution, to identify the methods of preparing school counseling programmes, to adopt a method and to prepare an individual or collective program based on a theoretical framework, and the student implements the program under the supervision of the course professor and conducts it, The student presents a detailed research paper about the project he planned and implemented, and discusses it with his teacher.
Guidance for Special Groups
Course code: DEPY153
Course Name: Guidance for Special Groups
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to train students to provide counseling services and create programs for special groups, and design measures to count them such as juveniles and delinquents, prisoners, cases of ill-treatment and the elderly, cases of rape and death, cases of child abuse (sexual, psychological, and physical abuse), working women, and children of divorcees Talented and creative people, the unemployed, prisoners, and released prisoners, counseling victims and their families, knowing the conditions of each of these groups separately, their needs and problems, methods of evaluating and solving them, and the necessary skills to deal with them, and providing advisory services to the individuals surrounding them.
Counseling Theories in Marriage and the Family and its Applications
Course code: DEPY154
Course name: Counseling Theories in Marriage and the Family and its Applications
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to address the most prominent theories and strategies used in marital and family counseling, the future of marital and family counseling, its practical applications, identification of family needs, and the problems of spouses and the family in general. Family and marital counseling and how to solve it through the practical application of the different strategies used in marital and family counseling. The student sets a guiding plan for a family or marital problem, which is presented to the students and discussed with the course instructor.
Counseling in Crises
Course code: DEPY155
Course Name: Counseling in Crises
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to employ theories of counseling in dealing with crises, and to introduce students to the concept of the counseling process and the strategies for its use in dealing with crises. Applied to crises (divorce, death, chronic illness, suicide, etc.).
Tests and Standards in Guidance
Course code: DEPY156
Course Name: Tests and Standards in Guidance
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to learn about the origins and design of psychological tests and measures, and to know the types of tests used in psychological counseling, such as: intelligence tests (verbal and non-verbal), and personality tests: (such as: the multifaceted Minnesota, the Rorschach, understanding of the subject, the story test, … etc. ), and measures of inclinations, attitudes, and values, such as: (Coder, Likert, and Thurston), and other various tests, such as: anxiety, and training students on how to prepare, develop, and design scales, and use honesty and stability, and apply, correct, and interpret scales.
Welcome to Institute of Postgraduate Studies
Degree: Ph. D. DegreeTrack code: PHD102ESStudy method: Distance LearningCredit hour: 90How long it takes: Full time: 3 years Part time: 6 years Limit time: 10 years