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DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING
Chair: Dr. Otis Williams III
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DEGREE OFFERED
Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling
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Graduate Program Coordinator:
Dr. Kimberly Mills
Room 286, James E. Proctor Building
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Master of Arts Degree in Mental Health Counseling is a 60-credit hour program that gives students an option to complete the courses required for initial licensure in the State of Maryland. In addition, this program has three clinical experiences that give students the maximum amount of hours accepted pre-degree for licensure in Maryland, 1000 hours.
Mission Statement
As members of the Mental Health Counseling Program, we share a common vision of developing students who provide competent, caring, and ethical services to diverse clients in public, government, community agencies, and private practices. We encourage them to support one another in the formidable task of facilitating the change process in individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities as licensed professional counselors. Finally, we challenge our graduates to advance the mental health counseling profession through service, research, innovation, advocacy, and training.
Admission Requirements
1. Completion of a B.A. or B.S. Degree with a minimum of a 3.0 Cumulative GPA and at least 12 undergraduate credit hours in counseling, psychology or a related area.
2. Submission of three letters of recommendation. These letters of recommendation must come from academic instructors. One letter may be from an employer/supervisor.
3. Submission of a personal statement. The personal statement must be a typewritten statement not to exceed three single spaced pages in which the following points are addressed:
a. Background information: Family, education and work.
b. Goals: What do you expect to be doing in five (5) years? In ten (10) years?
c. Strengths: What strengths do you have that would contribute to you being a good counselor?
d. Change: What do you believe to be the facets of your personality, behavior, and/or outlook that, if modified or changed, would make you a better person/counselor? What plans, if any, do you have for making any such change(s)?
e. Why Bowie State University? Why did you decide to apply to the counseling program at B.S.U.?
f. Your comments: What additional information, thoughts, feelings, concerns and/or questions do you have?
4. Students who meet the above qualifications and are most suitable for admissions to the program will be invited for an interview as the final stage of the admissions process.
Students will be able to apply for a Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor License (LGPC) through the State of Maryland after completing the program. The University is CACREP accredited through 2025.
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