What Does the Curriculum Look Like?
The MAP requires 30 hours of graduate coursework, as shown on the following page. As the curriculum suggests, students may pursue a non-thesis or thesis option when completing the program. We recommend that those students moving into industry or public sector position select the non-thesis option, which requires an applied project with a professor or an internship with a local organization.
Those wishing to prepare for doctoral studies, in contrast, should undertake a guided thesis. One option is to take three hours of independent research with a professor in the Fall and three hours of Capstone credits in the Spring in order to complete the thesis.
MA PSYCHOLOGY CURRICULUM Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Core (9 hours)
PSYC7014: Grad Stat I (Fall)
PSYC7021: Applied Social – or -- PSYC7035: Cognitive (Fall)
PSYC7063: Program Evaluation (Fall)
Required Focus Area Course (3 hours) – select one
PSYC6004: I/O Psychology (Fall)
PSYC7005: Community Psychology (Spring)
Advanced QR Training (3 hours) – select one
PSYC7015: Grad Stat II (Spring)
PSYC7064: Part two of Program Evaluation with Data (Spring)
Electives (12 hours):
PSYC7021: Applied Social Psychology (Fall)
PSYC7035: Cognitive (Fall)
PSYC7090: Research (Spring and Fall, can be used to work toward thesis)
OLHR8099: Research in HR (Spring and Fall, can be used to work toward thesis)
EDST7093: Learning, Working, Thriving in Groups (TBD)
OLHR8029: Individual Behavior in the Workplace (Fall)
OLHR8084: Diversity in the Workplace (Spring)
OLHR8010: Organization Development & Change (Fall)
OLHR8090: Strategic Leadership for HR (Spring)
Other courses from outside of the department are available as elective options, but do require pre-approval from Dr. Holloway. There is a limit of 6 credits that can be taken from outside of the program. Some of these may include:
Sociology (Urban Inequality, Sociology of the Black Family, Qualitative Sociology – which would count as 2nd QR course, and Gender Work & Family)
Social Work (Family Violence, Grant Writing)
Capstone (3 hours)
Thesis or non-thesis option (Spring)