MASTER OF ARTS/DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY: COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
The Community program seeks to achieve four inter-related goals in training, specifically:
Goal 1: Provide students with a breadth of knowledge—theoretical and applied—in community psychology.
Goal 2: Provide statistical and methodological foundations in general psychology to demonstrate competence in core areas within the discipline.
Goal 3: Provide skills to engage communities and contribute to new developments in the field of community psychology.
Goal 4: Provide for the specific needs of the students and the communities they will serve.
             
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Students will achieve the successful completion of a minimum of 120 quarter hours of graduate credit beyond the bachelor's degree and will complete a traditional Master's Thesis and a Doctoral Dissertation. A typical course is 4 quarter hours.
 
Core Courses:
PSY 354 Community Psychology
PSY 492 Principles of Consultation
PSY 493 Principles of Community Psychology
PSY 495 Grant Writing
PSY 568 Seminar in Prevention and Intervention
PSY 569 Seminar in Program Evaluation
PSY 585 Field Work (8 hours)
 
Statistics and Methodology:
PSY 410 Advanced Statistics I
PSY 411 Advanced Statistics II

TWO OF THESE FOUR:       
      PSY 416 Methods in Qualitative Research 
      PSY 418 Multivariate Statistical Analysis 
      PSY 419 Factor Analysis and Path Modeling 
      PSY 558 Advanced Seminar in Statistics
PSY 420 Advanced Research Methods
PSY 597 Master’s Thesis Research 
PSY 599 Dissertation Research (12 hours)
 
Other Psychology and Interdisciplinary Courses:
ONE OF THESE FOUR:
    PSY 437 Advanced Personality
    PSY 445 Advanced Training and Development in Organizations
    PSY 511 Health Psychology
    PSY 567 Empowerment
PSY 430 Advanced Social Psychology
PSY 500 Professional Ethics
PSY 520 Principles of Human Diversity
PSY 550 Teaching Seminar (3 quarters)
PSY 561 Advanced Psychology of Women
MPS – One 500-level course ORSOC – One 400-level course 

OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Although an applicant is accepted into the M.A./Ph.D. community program, formal acceptance and admission to doctoral candidacy depends upon the student's satisfactory progress in meeting the various demands of graduate education and professional training.
 
Field Work and Practicum: All students develop an applied community-based fieldwork project. They develop relationships with community organizations, design a project based on mutual interests, and receive individual and group supervision to implement the project they design.. Metropolitan Chicago has a large population of community sites to draw upon as resources for assisting in placing students in practica and job-related sites.
 
Master's Thesis: It is expected that the student's proposal for the Master's Thesis will be approved by January 15th of the winter quarter of the second year in the program.
 
Doctoral Comprehensive Exams or Alternate Project: The student is expected to take doctoral comprehensive examinations in the area of community psychology in the Fall or Spring quarters of the third or fourth year in the program. These examinations cannot be taken until the student has completed the master's thesis.  As an alternative to comprehensive exams, with prior approval of the program director, the student may submit an empirical paper, review paper, or grant application.
           
Dissertation: For the dissertation, 12 hours of PSY 599 (Dissertation Research) are required. The student should form a dissertation committee and begin work on the dissertation proposal during the third or fourth year.
 
Oral Examination: Student is to defend his or her dissertation and to show competence in the general field of psychology and in the area of specialization.
 
Time Limitation: 1) Between admission to the doctoral program and admission to doctoral candidacy: not more than four years; 2) Between admission to candidacy and the final examination: not less than eight months and not more than five years.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY:

INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
 

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Minimum of 120 hours beyond the bachelor’s degree, including 12 dissertation hours. In addition to those courses required for the M.A., the following courses must be completed.

Core Courses: Either a course in history and systems of psychology or passing a special exam in this area.

Statistics Courses: Psychology 418 Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Psychology 419 Factor Analysis and Path Modeling, and Psychology 450 Psychological Measurement.

Industrial Psychology Courses: Core courses in the I/0 area: Psychology 440, 441, 442, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 559 (taken twice).

Electives: Additional courses with consent of the student’s advisor to attain the required 120 credit hours. Electives are grouped into two areas: methods and content. At least one course must be taken in each area. Examples of method courses include Math 454, 456, 457; Computer Science 423, 424, and 432. Examples of content courses include Management 526, 560; Marketing 545; Psychology 425, 434, and 443.

OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Doctoral Candidacy Examination: Designed to assess the student’s knowledge of psychology and the student’s area of specialization. The examination is given in two sections. A section consists of an examination in the areas represented by the required courses in industrial/organizational psychology. The second section is an oral examination in the area of I/0 psychology.

Admission to Doctoral Candidacy: Formally given to the student who has successfully passed the Doctoral Candidacy Examination; the student has no more than 5 years from that date to complete requirements for the doctorate.

Candidacy Continuation: Course(s) or candidacy continuation registration required each quarter between admission to candidacy and graduation.

Dissertation: Departmental committee approval and acceptance of topic and outline of dissertation given only after admission to candidacy. Research for the dissertation should normally be completed during the student’s fourth year in the program.

Oral Examination: Student to defend his or her dissertation and to show competence in the general field of psychology and in the area of specialization.

Time Limitations: 1) Between admission to the doctoral program and admission to doctoral candidacy: not more than four years; 2) Between admission to candidacy and the final examination: not less than eight months and not more than five years.