CSD 8235 Counseling Applications
in Communication Disorders

Welcome to the home page for CSD 8235 Counseling Applications in Communication Disorders. Behind this unassuming index page lies many more pages of useful information for the students of CSD 8235. You will see a navigation bar of major links hovering to the left of each page. Use these links to take you to the major pieces of information that you will need. From those links, you will find your way to more detailed information, such as the outlines for each unit of discussion and the details of assignments and grading. Check this page regularly; things change. Watch the Announcements box above for new items that become available.

This course takes us out of the realm of disorders, broken bodies, impaired function, and fixing problems, and into the realm of the human condition, the psyche, the soul, and the story. Your courses thus far have tried to lead you out of mystery and into mastery. In this course, you will have opportunities to move toward mystery. We all will have opportunities to hold the tension between the mystery that feels uncomfortable to us and the expectation that we have to fix something. We will read about, talk about, listen about life -- other people's as well as our own. As Rachel Naomi Remen reminds us, life is not broken and does not need to be fixed. In addition to academic readings, we'll get to read stories. We will have live stories in the form of guest speakers who will visit class. And we'll get to practice specific listening behaviors that may take us out of our comfort zones. In fact, the entire course may take you out of your comfort zone of intellectual analysis and into the messy arena of life.

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©2011 Cindy S. Spillers. For concerns about this course contact the instructor at cspiller@d.umn.edu