Ph.D. Course Requirements Home  Graduate Program Ph.D. Course Requirements
First Year Coursework
Statistics
All first-year students, regardless of area,
must take two courses in statistics: Psychology 204, Quantitative Data Analysis
(fall quarter), and Psychology 214A, Multivariate Techniques (winter quarter).
Proseminar
Students must also in their first year take the
two-quarter proseminar sequence for their particular research area in the
fall and winter quarters: Psych 224A and 224B (cognitive), Psych 244A and
244B (developmental), and Psych 211A and 211B (social).
Colloquium Series
To aid in the development of their research programs, all graduate students
must enroll and participate in the colloquium series associated with their respective
research area each quarter.
Area-Specific Course Requirements
Beyond the basic first-year courses, students in each research area are
required to take several advanced courses and seminars. Some of these courses
should be taken during their first year, while others should be taken in the
second and third years of graduate study. The required courses in the three
areas beyond those stated above are:
Cognitive course requirements
- Three advanced cognitive graduate courses. For example:
- Psych 227: Contemporary Issues in the Psychology of Language
- Psych 220: Special Topics in Human Memory,
- Psych 223: Special Topics in Psychological Inquiry
- A graduate course in developmental psychology
- A graduate course in social psychology
- A substantive advanced course in a discipline other than psychology
Developmental course requirements
- Psych 225A: Introduction to Developmental Research I
- Psych 225B: Introduction to Developmental Research II
- Psych 246: Diversity: Issues in Human Development
- One advanced Developmental graduate seminar courses
- A graduate course in cognitive psychology
- A graduate course in social psychology
- A substantive advanced course in a discipline other than psychology
Social course requirements
- Psych 210: Experimental Methods in Social Psychology
- Psych 248: Survey Methods
- Psych 249: Field Methods and Social Ethnography
- One other advanced social graduate seminar
- A graduate course in cognitive psychology
- A graduate course in developmental psychology
- A substantive advanced course in a discipline other than psychology
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