Department of Psychology

For more information about degree offerings by the faculty of psychology, visit the Department of Psychology webpage. 

The Department of Psychology offers courses leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial-organizational psychology and in clinical psychology.

Learning Objectives

Master of Arts in Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Students who complete the M.A. program will have:

• The ability to apply theory and methods to help organizations solve people-related problems;
• Knowledge of the aims, practices, and strategies of organizations, workgroups, and individual workers to achieve fit;
• Knowledge of methods suited to testing the qualities of specific HR-related practices and interventions serving organizational aims;
• The ability to communicate with technical proficiency in terms understandable by lay professionals; and 
• Standards of academic, research, and business professionalism.

Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology. Students who complete the master’s program will: 

• achieve familiarity with foundational knowledge of psychology to include four of the following domains:  biological bases of behavior, development across the lifespan, theories and principles of social psychology, cognitive psychology, emotions, or history of psychology as a science;
• acquire familiarity with empirically supported treatment modalities and assessment tools;
• achieve knowledge of academic, ethical, and professional standards for psychologists as published by regulatory agencies;
• acquire knowledge of individual and cultural diversity, and be prepared to adapt supervised clinical activities .
• acquire skills that prepare them for doctoral study in clinical psychology or further training in related fields (e.g., counseling, social work).

Master’s level psychologists who graduate from our program are not prepared for independent practice or licensure. As such, the program’s fifth objective is to prepare students for doctoral study in clinical psychology or further training in related fields (e.g., counseling, social work).

Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  The goal of the program is to train professionally competent clinical psychologists with a broad background in the field of psychology who can apply psychological theory, assessment techniques, and research methodology, to address clinical problems.  To elaborate this goal, our program has five broad aims or training objectives.  Namely, students will:

• demonstrate advanced discipline specific knowledge concerning biological bases of behavior, psychological, social, and biological development across the lifespan, theories and principles of social psychology, cognitive psychology, emotions, and history of psychology as a science;
• acquire clinical skills pertaining to treatment and assessment based on scientific research;
• obtain skills concerning research methods and data analysis to perform psychological research;
• achieve knowledge of academic, ethical, and professional standards for psychologists, and demonstrate these standards in professional development and practice;
• acquire knowledge of individual and cultural diversity, and be prepared to adapt their methods and practice to meet the needs of diverse populations.

Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology. The goal of the program is to train professionally competent clinical psychologists with a broad background in the field of psychology who can apply psychological theory, assessment, research methodology, and clinical skill to complex clinical problems.  To elaborate this goal, our program has five broad training objectives:

• Provide a generalist model of training in the discipline of psychology;
• Develop fundamental clinical skills based on scientific research;
• Develop fundamental skills for psychological research;
• Promote high academic, ethical, and professional standards in all aspects of professional development and practice; and
• Prepare students to adapt their methods and practice to meet the needs of diverse populations.

Programs

• Clinical Psychology, M.A.
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology, M.A.

• Clinical Psychology, Ph.D.
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Ph.D.

• Clinical Psychology, J.D./M.A.
• Industrial-Organizational Psychology, J.D./M.A.

Courses

• PSY 6193 Occupational Health Psychology
• PSY 6223 Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
• PSY 6233 Responding to Interpersonal, Intercultural, and Historical Violence
• PSY 6253 Evolutionary Psychology
• PSY 6413 History of Psychology
• PSY 6423 Psychology of Women
• PSY 6433 Cognitive Psychology
• PSY 6463 Psychology of Diversity
• PSY 6483 Neuroscience and Psychopharmacology
• PSY 7003 Behavioral Neurosciences and Psychopharmacology
• PSY 7043 Social Psychology
• PSY 7053 Psychometrics
• PSY 7063 Human Behavior
• PSY 7073 Human Development
• PSY 7113 Clinical Assessment: Intellectual
• PSY 7153 Psychopathology
• PSY 7173 Child Psychopathology
• PSY 7193 Clinical Assessment: Personality
• PSY 7223 Theory and Practice of Clinical Psychology
• PSY 7273 Teaching Psychology Seminar
• PSY 7283 Statistical Methods for Research II
• PSY 7291-3 Teaching Psychology Practicum
• PSY 7343 Research Methods in Psychology
• PSY 7351 Applied Pre-Practicum
• PSY 7383 Multivariate Methods for Research
• PSY 7441-2 Fieldwork in I-O Psychology
• PSY 7451-6 Practicum I: Clinic Practicum in Clinical Psychology
• PSY 7463 I-O Practicum
• PSY 7543 Diversity, Ethics, Law, & Clinical Practice
• PSY 7551 Clinical Practicum Seminar
• PSY 7612-3 Clinical Supervision and Program Consultation
• PSY 7623 Survey of Industrial Psychology
• PSY 7633 Survey of Organizational Psychology
• PSY 7643 Job Attitudes and Motivation
• PSY 7653 Job Analysis and Performance Appraisal
• PSY 7663 Teams
• PSY 7683 Personality at Work
• PSY 7703 Child Development
• PSY 7961 Residency
• PSY 7973 Seminar
• PSY 7981-6 Research and Thesis
• PSY 7991-9 Independent Study
• PSY 8053 Clinical Neuropsychology
• PSY 8063 Introduction to Scientist-Practitioner-Based Psychotherapy
• PSY 8083 Training
• PSY 8103 Personnel Selection
• PSY 8133 Emotion
• PSY 8451-6 Practicum II: Practicum in Clinical Psychology
• PSY 8551-6 Practicum III: Advanced Practicum in Clinical Psychology
• PSY 8800-9 Clinical Psychology Internship
• PSY 8973 Doctoral Level Seminar
• PSY 8991-9 Pre-Dissertation Research
• PSY 9981-9 Dissertation Research