Guidance and Psychological Counseling
General Description
This program was established to train Psychological Counselors and Counselors in the field of Guidance and Psychological Counseling. Since 1993, the program has been accepting students. Guidance and Psychological Counseling Program serves with four professors, five associate professors, two doctoral faculty members, two research assistants.
The Psychological Counseling and Guidance program is a first cycle (Bachelors’s Degree) program.
First Cycle
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Specific Admission Requirements
Undergraduate students are accepted to this program through the Higher Education Examination, under the framework of the regulations set by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK). Evaluation, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) places students in an undergraduate programme based on their exam score.
Applicants are required to :
1. Have a high school (or equivalent ) degree
2. Take a satisfying Equal-weight (Turkish and mathematics) score in the Higher Education Exam.
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Specific arrangements for the recognition of prior learning
The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.
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Qualification Requirements and Regulations
For the graduation from this program, the students are required to have completed all the courses in their undergraduate program with a letter grade better than DD, to have completed a minimum of 240 ECTS credits, and to have at least 2.00/4.00 of Cumulative Grade Points Average (GPA).
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Profile of The Programme
The aim of the undergraduate program of Psychological Counseling and Guidance is to equip the counselor trainees with the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for the field of psychological counseling and guidance. People who graduate from this program are expected to have ethical values and principles of the profession; and follow the developments of the profession. They also are expected to have investigating, quationing, critical thinking skills, and cope with the problems they face as professional counselors.
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Key Learning Outcomes & Classified & Comparative
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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples
Graduates of the Psychological Counseling and Guidance programme are employed by the Ministry of National Education as school counselors in state and private schools, in research and guidance centers, in private educational institutions, in counseling centers of higher educational institutions, and in The Ministry of Justice. They also find jobs in private institutions’ human resources departments as counselors.
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Access to Further Studies
Students graduating from this program may apply master and doctoral level graduate programs, if they take ALES (Selection Examination for Academic Personnel and Graduate/Postgraduate Studies) and Foreign Language exams.
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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading
Each student is required to register for classes at the beginning of the semester. To take the final exam, each student must continue at least 70% of the courses, and must continue at least 80% of the practices. For each course students are subjected to at least one midterm and a final exam. The contribution of the midterm exam (as the midterm grade, homeworks, laboratory exams, quizzes, etc. can be evaluated) to the success grade could be 50%. The contribution of the final exam to the success grade should be at least 50%. All exams are evaluated over 100 points. Final exam are required to obtain at least 50 points. Students who have received letter grades as AA, BA, BB, CB and CC are considered successful from that course. DC and DD notes are notes that conditionally successful. Students have to obtain at least (DD) from a course in any semester in order to be considered successful for that course. Besides, students need a GPA and Cumulative GPA of alt least 2.00 in order to be considered successful in a year.
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Graduation Requirements
In order to meet graduation requirements students must earn a minimum of 240 credits. The minimum GPA required for graduating with an undergraduate degree is 2.00/4.00.
Full-Time
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Address and Contact Details
Bölüm Başkanı:
Prof. Dr. Nagihan OĞUZ DURAN
e-mail: nagihan@uludag.edu.tr
Ana Bilim Dalı Başkanı
Doç. Dr. Asuman YÜKSEL
e-mail: asumany@uludag.edu.tr
Bologna Koordinatörü
Dr. Öğr. Üy. Meltem YILDIZ
e-mail: meltemyildiz@uludag.edu.tr
Bologna Koordinatör Yardımcısı
Araş. Gör. Firdevs ÖZTÜRK
e-mail:firdevsozturk@uludag.edu.tr
Students attending the RPD Undergraduate Program can benefit from all the facilities on the U.U. campus (library, dining hall, dormitories, sports facilities, student clubs, etc.), as well as the library and computer laboratories, group counseling room, and camera and recording devices provided to students for different courses within the Faculty of Education.
There are thirteen faculty members including four professors, five associate professors, two doctoral faculty members and two research assistants in the Guidance and Psychological Counseling Program of the Department of Educational Sciences. The Department of Educational Sciences has a total of twenty-four faculty members, including the faculty members in the Curriculum and Instruction program and the Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning and Economics program. Students can meet with faculty members during the designated interview hours.
