COUN 639: School Counseling Practicum
_ A major purpose of the practicum is to acquaint the school counselor candidate with the climate and conditions within the P-12 schools and also to become proficient in the acquisition of counseling skills. Practicum requires a minimum of 150 field experience hours in the school setting with 50 hours at each school level (elementary, middle, and high school). Forty (40) of these hours must be from direct student contact with the remaining hours consisting of indirect student contact.