2020-2021 Graduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
Department of Psychology
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Chair
Robert Tett
Professors
Joanne Davis
Allan Harkness
Elana Newman
Jamie Rhudy
Robert Tett
Associate Professors
Bradley Brummel
Lisa Cromer
David Fisher
Anupama Narayan
Jennifer Ragsdale
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Applied Associate Professor
Joanna Shadlow
Applied Assistant Professor
Jennifer Steward
Graduate Program Advisors
Joanne Davis, Clinical Psychology
Bradley Brummel, Industrial-Organizational Psychology
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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:
- describe and apply theory and related methods suited to helping organizations solve people-related problems.
- describe and evaluate the aims, practices, and strategies of organizations, workgroups, and individual works to achieve fit.
- identify, describe, and execute methods suite to testing the qualities of specific HR-related practices and interventions serving organizational aims through research design, assessment, and advanced statistical methods.
- communicate with technical proficiency in terms understandable by lay professionals.
- describe, explain, and engage the 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:
- describe and apply theory and related methods suited to helping organizations solve people-related problems.
- describe and evaluate the aims, practices, and strategies of organizations, workgroups, and individual works to achieve fit.
- identify, describe, and execute methods suite to testing the qualities of specific HR-related practices and interventions serving organizational aims through research design, assessment, and advanced statistical methods.
- communicate with technical proficiency in terms understandable by lay professionals.
- describe, explain, and engage the standards of academic, research, and business professionalism.
- design and execute research studies independently, addressing questions relevant to organizational interventions involving people.
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 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.
ProgramsMaster’sDoctoralCoursesPsychology
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