This course is intended to increase the student's, understanding of the issues and dynamics in, counseling across social and cultural lines. Students will explore the nature of society and, culture and how these impact the counseling, process. Students will broaden their scope of, diversity awareness and knowledge including, systems of power and privilege. Attention will be, given to developing an understanding of the, intersectionality of gender, class, race, and, ethnicity in working with diverse populations in a, counseling context.