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Online courses about depression in schools

I am a recreational therapist at a private school. I would like to take a class to enhance my skills and complete required CEU's. I have a masters level degree and can take both undergraduate and graduate classes. I prefer to take classes online. Do you have something dealing with depression and education of elemenatary, junioir high and high school students? I have taken almost all your psychology classes as an undergraduate

We have courses and degree programs that fit your interests very closely.

Through MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education, you can take individual online courses or earn either a master of education degree or an educational specialist degree with a focus in mental health practices in schools. This one-of-a-kind program is completely online and is offered by the College of Education's department of educational, school and counseling psychology, which is ranked as one of the top departments in the country.

That same department also offers two courses through the university's Center for Distance and Independent Study.

You can enroll in the independent study courses any day of the year and take up to nine months to complete each one. The courses through MU Direct are semester-based and allow for interaction with classmates.

Dolores Shearon
MU Extension

Complete degree

I attended MU from 1992 through 1996. I was to complete a three-credit course to graduate, but was unable to finish it within the time alotted. This has not hindered my career, but what can I do to receive my BA degree?

Depending on what your degree is in and what type of course you need, the Center for Distance and Independent Study ( 800-609-3727) may be a good place to start. The center offers courses that you can take no matter where you live. You can enroll any day or the year and take up to nine months to finish a course.

I will forward your message to the center's student services staff so that someone can follow up with you. That person will probably suggest that you touch base with an MU adviser in the department where your major is. Before enrolling, you'll want to make sure that the course you take fulfills the degree requirements.

Dolores Shearon
MU Extension

Interior design and architecture

Does MU have interior design and architecture programs?

Through its department of environmental design, MU's College of Human Environmental Sciences offers a degree in interior design. The department also offers pre-architecture course work but not an actual degree in architecture.

Dolores Shearon
MU Extension

Extension and on-line classes

I would like to get information on extension and on-line classes. How do I apply?

If you are interested in taking courses for credit, I can send you to two Web sites that will cover all that MU has to offer in terms of distance education:

• Center for Distance and Independent Study has more than 100 college courses in various subjects that you can take through distance education. The center also has more than 150 high school courses, as well as courses for grades 3 through 8. These are very flexible courses in which you can enroll in any day of the year and take up to nine months to finish.
• MU Direct: Continuing and Distance Education is the place to look for online degrees from MU. Most of the degree programs are at the graduate level. MU Direct also has three bachelor's completion programs in health-care fields. The online courses typically follow a semester schedule, and students interact with one another and the instructor throughout the course. With many of the degree programs, courses can be taken on an individual basis without the student being admitted to the degree program.

MU Direct also operates an evening program leading to a bachelor of general studies degree, and MU offers evening master of public administration courses in Jefferson City and Columbia.

I hope we have what you're looking for.

Dolores Shearon
MU Extension

BS and MD dual degree combined

Does MU offer a combined BS and MD dual admissions degree program?

MU does not offer a dual degree program, but the University of Missouri-Kansas City does.

Dolores Shearon
MU Extension

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Updated 5/22/08