The pre-fieldwork requirements are designed to ensure you are best prepared to enter the field and begin your fieldwork experience. All the pre-fieldwork requirements, including coursework and practica, must be completed prior to advancing to fieldwork and enrolling in the PPSC 677A fieldwork course.
Pre-Fieldwork/Practica Hours
Prior to advancing to fieldwork and enrolling in PPSC 677A, candidates must accumulate a minimum of one hundred (100) clock hours of practica (pre-fieldwork). Fifty-five (55) hours of the one hundred (100) clock hours will be completed in the classroom as part of your required coursework for the program. Forty-five (45) hours will be completed independently through qualified practica experiences.
A portion of the required one hundred (100) practica hours will be completed through your coursework. These activities are intended to enhance your academic knowledge and clinical skills.
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Course |
Activity |
Hours |
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PPSC 601: The Counseling Process |
Peer-to-Peer Counseling (in-class role-play) |
20 |
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PPSC 685: Foundations of School Counseling |
School Counselor Informational Interview Core Curriculum Presentation (classroom lesson teaching) Conference Proposal and Presentation |
20 |
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PPSC 610: Sociocultural Counseling and Interventions |
Community Engagement Project |
15 |
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Total |
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55 |
When determining how to earn the remaining 45 hours, candidates are expected to choose activities that foster their academic, career, and social emotional development.
Possible practica activities include:
- Shadowing a school counselor, observing classroom instruction, attending district and school-based meetings, or mapping school-based community resources*
- Working in school-based programs serving parents and families*
- Volunteering for community service programs who serve children and families
- Career exploration and development including personality/career assessment or career counseling
- Individual or group counseling
*If completing school-based observation hours, students in the Credential-Only Program, Pre-K-12 Track, and Combo (Pre-K-12 + College) Track must complete practica hours in a K-12 environment.
If you have questions regarding whether a specific activity would be considered a qualified practica experience, please contact the Office of Licensures and Credentialing at olc@redlands.edu.
Practica hours should be submitted for approval through the School Counseling Practica Hour Log at the end of each semester during which practica hours were completed. The hour log will prompt you to submit practica hours completed as part of a course to each respective course instructor for approval. Meanwhile, your submission of practica hours completed independently will be routed to the Office of Licensures and Credentialing for approval. All experiences submitted through the hour log will be formally reviewed to ensure they are qualified practica experiences.
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Fostering Meaningful Fieldwork
While completing your pre-fieldwork requirements, begin to consider your areas of interest within counseling and how your pre-fieldwork and fieldwork experience may align with your professional and personal goals.
You can begin to identify your professional and personal goals by:
- Attending webinars and professional development events
- Discussing your interests with faculty and other counseling students
- Utilizing the Office of Career and Professional Development's resources and services
- Exploring resources available through community partners and professional organizations
The University of Redlands must have a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the fieldwork site before you can begin. You may use the Active Partnership List to explore sites and determine whether a partnership is in place with any sites of interest.
If you are seeking a site outside of this list, please be aware, it can take up to 3 months to establish these partners. To begin the process of requesting a partner that is not currently on the Active Partnership List, please fill out the Partnership Interest Form.
Pre-Fieldwork Requirements
In order to advance to fieldwork, candidates must provide evidence of completion of the following requirements:
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Pre-Fieldwork Courses: Students must complete all pre-fieldwork coursework before advancing to fieldwork including PPSC 601, PPSC 610, and PPSC 685. |
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Practica Hours: Completion and approval of all coursework-related and independent hours (100 hour minimum). |
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Liability Insurance: Students must obtain liability through affiliation with a professional counseling organization. Professional liability insurance is a common benefit provided to professional association members at little to no additional cost. Both the American School Counselor Association (pK-12 and Combo track) and American Counseling Association (College track) offer professional liability coverage at little to no additional cost to their student members. Please visit the specific association for additional membership and application information. |
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Certificate of Clearance: Students must have a valid Certificate of Clearance for the entirety of fieldwork. |
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TB Test: Students must have proof of a current negative tuberculosis test for the entirety of fieldwork. Skin TB tests are valid for 2 years and chest x-ray exams are valid for 5 years. |
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Curriculum Vitae/Resume: Students must submit a current curriculum vitae (CV) or resume, which includes information such as educational background, courses completed, volunteer/work experience, pre-fieldwork and/or fieldwork experiences, conferences/presentations, skills, or professional membership(s). |