COUC 504 Multicultural Counseling Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

COUC 504 reads Hays and Erford's Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence with McGoldrick and colleagues' Ethnicity and Family Therapy. These samples follow one composite student from a small Ohio farm town through the term: forums on cultural self-awareness, ethnic identity and well-being, microaggressions, cultural mistrust and help-seeking, and faith as a dimension of culture, and an immersion project in the Deaf community that moves from research and films to a coffee social and an ASL worship service and ends with an hour-long interview.

CourseCOUC 504 Multicultural Counseling (COUC504)
Credit hours3
ProgramMA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work8 of 8
Samples on this site8 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published COUC 504 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What COUC 504 covers

Group forums fall in Modules/Weeks 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8, each a thread of 350 to 450 words with two replies of 200 to 300 words posted within an assigned group; the immersion project papers fall in Modules/Weeks 2, 6 and 7.

Each immersion part pairs a question-set paper with a forum of at least 350 words: 1,200 to 1,400 words on three scholarly and three media sources, 1,300 to 1,400 words on two cultural events, and 1,600 to 1,800 words on a one-hour interview.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes COUC 504 Multicultural Counseling this way:
This course focuses on the multiple dimensions related to competent multicultural counseling. Major ethnic groups are studied along with the counseling, social justice, and advocacy approaches appropriate to each. In a similar fashion, the overarching cultural context of relationships, including factors such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual values, mental and physical characteristics, education, family values, socioeconomic status, and within group as well as between group cultural differences are examined. Theories of multicultural counseling, identity development, pluralistic trends, and systems-oriented intervention strategies (couple, family, group, and community) are considered. Counselor cultural self-awareness and the role of counseling in eliminating biases, prejudice, oppression, and discrimination are emphasized.

COUC 504 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1Group DB Forum 1 (checklist and Quiz 1 also due)50Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Cultural Immersion Project Part 1 Paper (Part 1 Forum and Quiz 2 also due)70Read the Week 2 sample
Week 3Group DB Forum 2 (Quiz 3 also due)50Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Group DB Forum 3 (Quiz 4 also due)50Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5Group DB Forum 4 (Quiz 5 also due)50Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6Cultural Immersion Project Part 2 Paper (Part 2 Forum and Quiz 6 also due)100Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Cultural Immersion Project Part 3 Paper (Part 3 Forum and Quiz 7 also due)70Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Group DB Forum 5 (Quiz 8 also due)50Read the Week 8 sample

Where COUC 504 papers lose points

COUC 504 work loses points when a forum turns a cultural group into a list of traits, when self-awareness posts list identities without saying what they could distort, when immersion papers describe events in general terms instead of people and moments, and when the Part 3 paper forgets that its sources must come from Part 1.

Using a COUC 504 sample well

The samples cite Hays and Erford, McGoldrick and colleagues, Ratts and colleagues, Sue and colleagues, Hook and colleagues, Soto and colleagues, Smith and Silva, Rivas-Drake and colleagues, Phinney, Constantine, Owen and colleagues, Lilienfeld, Whaley, Ward and colleagues, Hankerson and Weissman, Mitchell and Karchmer, Bat-Chava, Fellinger and colleagues, Padden and Humphries, Cashwell and Watts, Captari and colleagues and Vieten and colleagues.

COUC 504 questions, answered

What textbooks does COUC 504 use?

Hays and Erford's Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence (2018) and McGoldrick, Giordano and Garcia-Preto's Ethnicity and Family Therapy (2005).

What is the COUC 504 Cultural Immersion Project?

A three-part project on a cultural group new to the student: research and media in Module/Week 2, two cultural events in Module/Week 6 and a one-hour interview in Module/Week 7, each with a paper and a forum.

How are COUC 504 forums organized?

The class is divided into two groups for five group forums, each with a 350-to-450-word thread and two replies of 200 to 300 words, plus three immersion project forums.

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