All three Master of Arts in Counseling concentrations - Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling, and School Counseling - require the completion of 60 credit hours of coursework. All students, regardless of program specialty area must successfully complete the following 3 credit core courses:

• CNS 504: Statistics 3
• CNS 505: Testing and Appraisal 3
• CNS 510: Foundations for Faith-Based Counseling 3
  or Counseling 511: Christian Counseling within the Mental Health Professions 3

• CNS 512: Research Design and Program Evaluation 3
• CNS 514: Human Development 3
• CNS 520: Counseling Theory 3
• CNS 521: Counseling Skills 3
  or Counseling 579: Child and Adolescent Counseling Skills 3

• CNS 533: Career and Lifestyle Counseling 3
• CNS 534: Social and Cultural Foundations of Counseling 3
• CNS 536: Group Counseling 3
• CNS 537, CNS 538, or CNS 539: Professional Issues and Ethics in Counseling 3

Additionally, students must complete 12 credits of program specific classes including Professional Issues and Ethics as well as an additional 6-9 credit of elective courses, depending upon whether or not the statistics requirement was met upon program entry. The remaining 9 credits will include field experiences of a 3-credit practicum and 6 credits of internship in the chosen program track.

Finally, according to Geneva College's Graduate Education Policy, "graduate students do receive academic credit for a grade of C but should be cautioned that C level work is not considered to be acceptable graduate work that a 3.00 is required for graduation, and that students may not have more than two C's." In the MA in Counseling Programs, students must maintain a 3.0 Grade Point Average (GPA) to remain in good standing. Students whose GPA's fall below 3.0 will be placed on academic probation for a maximum of three semesters (fall, spring, and summer) or until the GPA is raised to a 3.0 or higher, whichever occurs first.