Course details
The aim of this MA course is to give you the knowledge and skills necessary to become a qualified guidance counsellor. Guidance promotes personal, social, educational and vocational development in inpiduals. The course will appeal to:
- Psychology graduates
- Teachers
- Social workers
- Probation officers
- Juvenile liaison officers
- Occupational therapists
- Mentors
- Managers
Those who work in adult education pastoral care, residential care, youth and community work, sport, nursing, adult placement, development work, coaching, employee welfare, human resources.
Those whose work has a guidance component.
Course Details
The role of the guidance counsellor is to help people to make the right career decision. Their strengths, talents and virtues are assessed using career information and objective psychometric data. Counselling skills are also important to foster awareness and self-knowledge in the person. The ideal professional alliance is goal-oriented, future-focused, and dynamic.
Students take 90 credits as follows:
Year I
- AP6205 Psychological Principles of Human Development (5 credits)
- AP6206 Psychological Perspectives on Counselling Theories (5 credits)
- AP6211 Theories of Career Development (5 credits)
- AP6220 Career Skills (5 credits)
- AP6221 Career Information Management Skills (5 credits)
- AP6222 Counselling Skills for Guidance Counsellors (5 credits)
- AP6223 Psychological Intervention Skills for Guidance Counsellors (5 credits)
- AP6224 Group Work Theory and Skills 1 (5 credits)
- AP6225 Group Work Theory and Skills 2 (5 credits)
- AP6215 Professional Issues in Guidance Counselling (5 credits)
- AP6226 Theory of Psychological Testing (5 credits)
- AP6227 Practice of Psychological Testing (5 credits)
Module Semester Information may be found here. Module Descriptions may be found here.
Year II
- AP6228 Guidance Counselling Field Practice (10 Credits)
- ED6212 Project Portfolio (10 credits)
- ED6213 Educational Disadvantage and Multiculturalism: Learning and Identity (5 credits)
- ED6214 Inclusion of Learners with Special Educational Needs: Identity and Disability(5 credits)
If you complete and pass taught modules to the value of 60 credits in year 1, but opt not to go on to year 2, you will be conferred with a Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance Counselling. However, it is important to note that this is not a full qualification in guidance counselling. A student who subsequently applies to undertake the Master’s programme must do so within 5 years of successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma Examination subject the programme been on offer.
Details of the programme content and modules are in the Postgraduate College Calendar
Detailed Entry Requirements
to apply for this course you should have a 2.2 class honours degree. Graduates who do not meet this requirement and have a minimum of five years relevant experience in teaching, industry or community work will also be considered.
you will be asked to supply a personal statement outlining your professional experiences and personal qualities relevant to undertaking training in guidance counselling and your reasons for applying to the course.
All applicants offered a place will have been selected through short-listing and face to face interview with the School of Applied Psychology.
N.B. Please note, the MA in Applied Psychology (Guidance Counselling) offers educational and training opportunities which will require you to come in contact with the public and assume positions of trust. To ensure the protection of the public, and justify public trust and confidence, UCC is committed to ensuring that only suitable candidates are allowed to undertake these programmes of study/training. Consequently, all students on the MA in Applied Psychology (Guidance Counselling) undergo GARDA/POLICE VETTING. University College Cork has made arrangements with the Gardaí with regard to Garda Clearance procedures.
Assessment
Assessment consists of a combination of:
- essays
- project reports
- end of year examinations
- placement supervision reports
Course Location
About University College Cork
UCC was established in 1845 as one of three Queen’s Colleges - at Cork, Galway and Belfast. These new colleges theyre established in the reign of Queen Victoria, and named after her.
Queen's College, Cork (QCC) was established to provide access to higher education in the Irish province of Munster. Cork was chosen for the new college due to its place at the centre of transatlantic trade at the time and the presence of existing educational initiatives such as the Royal Cork Institution and a number of private medical schools.
The site chosen for the new college was dramatic and picturesque, on the edge of a limestone bluff overlooking the River Lee. It is associated with the educational activities of a local early Christian saint, Finbarr. It is believed that his monastery and school stood nearby, and his legend inspired UCC’s motto: ‘Where Finbarr Taught, let Munster Learn.’
On 7 November 1849, QCC opened its doors to a small group of students (only 115 students in that first session, 1849-1850) after a glittering inaugural ceremony in the Aula Maxima (Great Hall), which is still the symbolic and ceremonial heart of the University.
The limestone buildings of the Main Quadrangle (as it is now known) are built in a style inspired by the great universities of the Middle Ages, and theyre designed by the gifted architectural partnership of Thomas Deane and Benjamin Woodward. The iconic image of UCC, it is set in landscaped gardens and surrounds the green lawn known to all as the Quad.
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