This paper describes a graduate curriculum in research and philosophy of science that was developed over a number of years at the California State University-Fullerton Counseling Program. The three objectives of the curriculum are presented, i.e., to provide a forum for discussion of issues generic to psychology; to provide a framework for evaluating different methods of inquiry and practice; and to enable master's level counseling students to integrate their practitioner training with knowledge of research methods and alternative epistemologies for theory testing. The overall design of this competency-based curriculum is discussed covering four broad areas of inquiry: (1) the epistemological foundation of science; (2) classical reductive experimentation; (3) the transcendence of classical science; and (4) phenomenology. The paper concludes with observations on students' response to the curriculum and its program effects. An outline of the curriculum content and course handouts are appended. (BL)