This practicum serves to extend graduate students' knowledge of multicultural counseling through the development and implementation of applied multicultural interventions. Specifically, students enrolled in the practicum will have an opportunity to work on applied projects which may fall under the following categories: (a) multicultural outreach (e.g., conduct workshops for campus and community groups); (b) multicultural research (e.g., assist with validation studies of a multicultural teaching competency measure, assist with writing grant applications; developing research projects in diverse communities); (c) Center development activities (e.g., develop workshop protocols, participate on community and/or campus Center advisory boards); (d) training activities (e.g., plan extracurricular training activities, organize multicultural lectures); and (e) other applied activities (e.g., student discussion/support groups).

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The Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology at the University of Missouri - Columbia (MU) invites applications to the Multicultural Teaching Scholars (MTS) program for the Summer. This program is offered through the MU graduate school. Departments submit recommendations to the graduate school for consideration in a university-wide competitive process. The Scholar will teach a graduate level course depending on departmental needs. The purpose of the MTS program is to:

1. Enhance the ability of departments to recruit members of underrepresented groups for future employment at MU; and
   
2. Prepare MU graduate and undergraduate students for the future by introducing them to a faculty more representative of the diversity of American society.  The selected Multicultural Teaching Scholars will teach or co-teach a course during one of the summer sessions.

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This elective course, “Experiencing Diversity in the United States”, is offered through the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology to MU undergraduate students since 2003 and has been expanded in 2006. The purpose of this course is to facilitate learning and discussion surrounding multicultural issues with an emphasis on racial/ethnic minorities.

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American Sign Language (ASL) is a foreign language used right here in the United States by millions of Deaf individuals! Learning ASL will give you the training and knowledge-base to be culturally and linguistically more sensitive to the deaf and hard of hearing population which totals more than 32 million people in the US. And the best part…ASL is now accepted by the University of Missouri to fulfill foreign language requirements for any student!

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The course would be a problem based one hour credit course. The purpose of this class would be to expose and enlighten the students to this vast and dynamic group of first nation’s peoples.  The course has three main learning objectives: (a) to provide information and a safe environment to expand their awareness and knowledge of Native American cultures, (b) broaden students worldviews of the physical, educational, spiritual, and psychological realms, and (c) enhance counseling skills in working with diverse populations. This class will act as a catalyst for encouraging and supporting further investigation and knowledge development in this area. We are quite aware that it cannot be exhaustive of the knowledge needed for working with all Native American clients.

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In August 2005, we started a student exchange program in the form of a Cross Cultural Immersion Program (CCIP) and hosted 14 graduate students from the ECP Department at NTNU for 10 days; we arranged a broad array of professional, social, and cultural experiences for the students including presentations by ESCP faculty and students, a presentation of Taiwanese culture by the NTNU students, meetings with other programs in the University, and site visits.

The ECP faculty and students from NTNU (located in Taipei, northern Taiwan) are now very excited about hosting and organizing a reciprocal immersion experience for MU students. The CCIP will involve a wide range of professional activities, such as: (a) lectures offered by NTNU faculty on a range of current professional issues in counseling in Taiwan, (b) on-site visits to explore first-hand an array of professional counseling activities in Taiwan (e.g., University Counseling Center, Teacher Chang (a famous community counseling center), a private practice group, an elementary school counseling center, and (c) potential visits to a hospital to learn about health psychology interventions, and the internationally known Mandarin Language Center, etc. 

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