Program Requirements

Courses are divided into five areas of specialization:

  • Foundations
  • Statistics and Research Methodology
  • Social Behavior, Development and Abnormal Behavior
  • Assessment
  • Intervention Techniques and Professional Issues

These areas are progressively developed over the five levels of the program. The following is a breakdown, by area of specialization, of the required courses in the program.

Foundations
These offerings are designed to transmit a basic fund of knowledge relating to the history and science of the discipline.

606 Perception I, or 616 Principles of Learning, or 617 Cognitive Psychology
648 Physiological Psychology
650 History and Systems of Psychology

Statistics and Research Methodology
These courses provide instruction in research and methodology with the aim of understanding basic research, designing investigation procedures and applying research to help solve personal and social problems. In addition to predissertation and doctoral dissertation research, the following courses are required:

608 Statistical Design in Research
609 Research in Clinical Psychology I
614 Multivariate Statistics
659 Psychological Measurement and Scaling
900 Master's Research
950 Doctoral Research

Social Behavior, Development and Abnormal Behavior
622 Social Psychology
623 Developmental Psychology
726 Psychopathology Across the Lifespan I
727 Psychopathology Across the Lifespan II

Assessment
Evaluation of people using the skills of observation, interviewing and psychological testing; the theory, development, reliability, validity, appropriate usage, administration, scoring, interpretation and reporting of the results of the assessment techniques.

635 Objective Personality Assessment, or 835 Neuropsychological Assessment
660 Assessment I: Intelligence Testing
663 Assessment II: Personality Assessment
668 Assessment Lab I
670 Assessment Lab II

Intervention and Professional Issues
Theory, research, techniques, and supervised experience in various methods of intervention.

627 Cultural Diversity in Psychological Services
631 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy I
658 Professional and Ethical Issues
701 Clinic Practicum I
702 Clinic Practicum II
705 Clinic Practicum III
706 Clinic Practicum IV
741 Assessment and Intervention Practicum I, III
742 Assessment and Intervention Practicum II, IV
750 Behavior Therapy
760 Marital and Family Therapy (Clinical Child Track)