Initial Three-Year Sequence for Clinical Program Students:

¹ Students are strongly encouraged to take substantive courses in Year 2 to help ensure timely progress through the program.

² Course meets departmental core requirement for master's thesis – need only one of these courses to meet the departmental requirement. The Clinical area requires that both of these courses be taken. If a student gets either of these courses waived (this is unusual), then the student must take one additional statistics course.

³ Prerequisites for this course are: CLP 5196, CLP 6169, PSY 5325

⁴ Registration for CLP 6920 is optional if students are limited to 9 credits by residency or other requirements; students are required to attend as though they had registered.

⁵ These are suggested times for these events to help ensure adequate progress on the thesis, which must be defended by the end of the 3^rd year according to departmental and Clinical area guidelines.

Required Selections for Clinical Program Students:

a. CLP 5375 - Concepts and Methods of Clinical Psychology
b. PSY 6919 - Design and Analysis in Psychology or EDF 5401 - General Linear Model, or an equivalent course subject to approval of one's committee (Fall, 2002)
c. One additional graduate statistics course of the student's choice, subject to approval of one's committee.

Note: Each of the above courses meets departmental core requirement for the doctoral degree. Students need only two of these courses to meet the departmental requirement, but the Clinical area requires a third course to fulfill APA requirements on breadth.

Electives (requirement revised fall 2009)

Graduate students in the Clinical program are required to take at least two graduate courses in addition to required courses noted above. These electives must be graded (not pass/fail) content seminars or courses (not practica) in which at least three-quarters of those enrolled for credit are graduate students (for classes that include students from both graduate and undergraduate course numbers, this refers to three-quarters of the total student enrollment across course numbers). The CTC can waive these criteria. Students may petition the CTC for approval of courses that do not meet these criteria. The electives chosen by a student are part of their Program of Studies and are subject to approval by the student's Doctoral Committee. It is preferable that these electives are taken in the Psychology Department. A maximum of one of the two courses may be taken outside of the Psychology Department. However, students must obtain approval of the CTC to allow outside courses to count toward the elective requirement. Students should provide the faculty with a syllabus, credentials of the instructor, and provide a rationale for why the course is important for their training. The following are courses commonly used to meet the elective requirement, but students should discuss their choices with their major professor and decide which courses best meet the student's training needs.

PSY 5916 Introduction to Latent Variables

PSY 5916 Advanced Topics in SEM

PSY 5916 Developmental Methods

PSY 5916 Meta Analysis

DEP 5165 Developmental Psychology¹

CLP 6349 Suicide

CLP 6349 Personality Disorders

PSY 5916 Eating Disorders

CLP 6349 Psychopathic Personalities

PSY 5916 Behavioral Genetics (approved by CTC in fall 2009)

¹ Beginning in fall 2011, the psychopathology (CLP 6169 and CLP 5475) and assessment (PSY 5325) courses will include coverage of human development across the lifespan. Therefore, DEP 5165 is an elective course for students entering the program in fall 2011. Students who entered the program prior to 2011 must take DEP 5165 to meet the APA breadth requirement.

Electives for Professional Development Needs (Optional)

Students who are considering the possibility of licensure might want to take CLP 5189 (Cultural Diversity), which is a readings course. For all students, this topic is built into the required courses; however, some students have found it beneficial to have a dedicated course on their transcript when navigating the licensure process for various states.