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MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PSYCHOLOGY THESIS PLAN


MAJOR CURRICULUM - PSYCHOLOGY			6 SCH
Required courses:
PSYC	5320	Research Design and Statistics
PSYC	5361	Qualitative Research

SPECIALIZATION CURRICULUM			24 SCH
Research Methods and Evaluation Track:
PSYC	5342	Psychometrics
PSYC	5360	Quantitative Methods
PSYC	5362	Program Evaluation
PSYC	5365	Advanced Statistics
PSYC	5368 or 5369	Special Topics in Qualitative Methods or Special Topics in Research Methods
Electives:
Three 5000-level psychology courses not taken to fulfill other degree requirments.

General Psychology Track:
PSYC	5302	Survey of Social Psychology
PSYC	5304	Survey of Personality and Abnormal Psychology
PSYC	5305	Human Development Across the Life Span
PSYC	5370	Cognitive Science
Electives:
Four 5000-level psychology courses not taken to fulfill other degree requirments

Educational Psychology Track¹:
EDSE	5305 or 5310	Survey of Special Education or Survey of Mild Disabilities
PSYC	5305	Human Development Across the Life Span
PSYC	5341	Classroom Assessment
PSYC	5370	Cognitive Science
PSYC	5371	Educational Psychology
Electives:
Three 5000-level psychology courses not taken to fulfill other degree requirments

THESIS			6 SCH
PSYC	5398	Thesis
PSYC	5399	Thesis


TOTAL			36 SCH
¹Note: This track is designed to provide existing teachers and school administrators with professional development in the area of educational psychology; it DOES NOT provide students with courses for initial certification.