The M.Ed. in Counseling from Louisiana State University is a 60-hour master?s program offering concentrations in either School Counseling or Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
The Clinical Mental Health Counseling concentration provides professional level training to graduate students interested in working in community and mental health settings and is designed to prepare students to become licensed professional counselors in the state of Louisiana.
The Clinical Mental Health Counseling non-thesis concentration requires the completion of 60 credit hours, which includes a specified core of 48 credit hours and 12 elective credit hours. The thesis option requires 60 hours of which 51 hours are in the specified core, and nine are in thesis.?
The curriculum requirements include:
- At least 42 hours at the 7000-level or above.
- A primary area consisting of a minimum of 48 hours of earned credit in a specified field of study
- An elective component consisting of 12 hours