The following represents the program’s core curriculum.

First Year

Fall Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5509	Assessment I: Intellectual & Cognitive Assessment	3
PSYCH 5516	Quantitative Analysis I:Regression & Analysis of Variance	3
PSYCH 5533	Psychopathology	3
PSYCH 5580	Evidenced Based Clinical Practice
or
PSYCH 5632	Health Psychology Interventions	3
PSYCH 5590	Directed Research
or
PSYCH 5599	Thesis(1)	1
	Total Hours	13
Spring Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5510	Assessment Methods in Professional Counseling	3
PSYCH 5517	Quantitative Analysis II: Advanced Topics in Regression  & Multivariate Data Analysis	3
PSYCH 5590	Directed Research
or
PSYCH 5599	Thesis(1)	1
PSYCH 5601	Experimental Methods in Design	3
	Total Hours	10
Summer Semester		Hours
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum(optional)(2)	1

Second Year

Fall Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5580	Structural Equation Modeling
or
PSYCH 5580	Hierarchical Modeling	3
PSYCH 5590	Directed Research
or
PSYCH 5599	Thesis(1)	2
PSYCH 5580	Evidenced Based Clinical Practice
or
PSYCH 5632	Health Psychology Interventions (3)	3
PSYCH 5631	Theoretical Foundations of Health Psychology	3
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	3
	Total Hours	14
Spring Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5538	Development & Evaluation of Assessment Tools	3
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4)	3
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4)
or
PSYCH 5580	Special Topics in Health Psychology	3
PSYCH 5590	Directed Research
or
PSYCH 5599	Thesis(1)	2
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	3
	Total Hours	14
Summer Semester		Hours
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum(optional)(2)	1

Third Year

Fall Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4)	3
PSYCH 5580	Supervision	3
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	1
PSYCH 5696	Pre-Dissertation(5)	2
	Total Hours	9
Spring Semester
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4) or Special Topics in Health Psychology	3
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	1
PSYCH 5696	Pre-Dissertation(5)	2
	Total Hours	6
Summer Semester
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum(optional)(2)	1

Fourth Year

Fall Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4)	3
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	1
PSYCH 5699	Research & Dissertation (5)	2
	Total Hours	6
Spring Semester		Hours
PSYCH 0000	Core Psychology (4)	3
PSYCH 5650	Clinical Practicum	1
PSYCH 5699	Research & Dissertation(5)	2
	Total Hours	6

Fifth Year

Fall Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5660	Clinical Health Psychology Internship (6)	1
PSYCH 5699	Research & Dissertation(7)	1
	Total Hours	2
Spring Semester	Course Name	Hours
PSYCH 5660	Clinical Health Psychology Internship (6)	1
PSYCH 5699	Research & Dissertation(7)	1
	Total Hours	2

Core Psychology = PSYCH 5521 Advanced Social; PSYCH 5507 Cognitive Psychology OR
PSYCH 5505 Motivation; PSYCH 5518 Advanced Biopsychology; PSYCH 5515 Advanced Systems and History of Psychology; Developmental Requirement (e.g., PSYCH 5522 Contemporary Issues in Developmental Psychology; PSYCH 5543 Adult Development/Aging)

Footnotes about the Core Curriculum:
Note: A course number of 5580 denotes a “Special Topics” course.  If more than one special topics course is offered in a semester, individual courses will be denoted with letters (e.g., 5580A, 5580B). 

+ This represents the currently recommended sequencing of courses.  Students may be allowed to alter this sequencing, with prior approval of the faculty advisor and DCT.  This sequencing is also subject to change based on course availability in a given semester as determined by the program.

1) Students are required to officially enroll and accumulate 6 hours of research credit over their first 2 years in the program (6 credit hours of graduate level research credit are required to receive the M.A.). If the master’s thesis project has been waived or completed, formal enrollment in directed research still is required. It is expected that all students will be actively involved in research and evaluated on their research performance every fall and winter semesters. Students who have had the M.A. requirement waived need only take 1 credit hour of research in each semester of the second year. However, students will still need to accumulate the additional 8 research credit hours required over and above the master’s thesis requirement to reach the graduate school minimum of 12 research credit hours for the Ph.D.

2) The program requires that students enroll in practicum each regular Fall and Winter semester of the second, third, and fourth years. Students may complete additional clinical hours in summer practicum to improve their competitiveness for internships. Official enrollment is optional, although documentation of supervised hours is required for those to be included.

3) This course may be taken during the third year (same semester) instead of the second year.

4) Evidenced Based Clinical Practice and Health Psychology Interventions are both required, however, these courses will offered in alternate years.

5) There are 5 core course requirements (see list at the bottom of the table). In some areas (e.g., Developmental) alternative courses may be used to fulfill the requirement.

6) The graduate school requires at least 12 hours of graduate research credit to graduate with a Ph.D. Our program requires a total of 8 research credit hours (pre-dissertation and dissertation) beyond the 6 required for the master’s thesis for graduation. You may accumulate these hours in any way you wish as long as you complete the additional 8 hours prior to graduation. However you must first pass comps before enrolling in dissertation units.

7) Due to variable internship start and end dates you may only officially complete you internship after the end of the Spring semester. In these cases an incomplete grade will be given until official completion of the internship. Note that the university generally requires students to be enrolled in the semester that they graduate. However, providing all other program requirements have been completed by the end of the spring semester (such as the dissertation) the DCT will request that summer enrollment be waived for students graduating in the summer. If all other requirements are not completed you will be required to enroll in at least one credit (for example, if you dissertation is not yet defended you will enroll in 1 credit of research for the summer semester). 

8) Students who defend their dissertations prior to the 5th year do not register for continuing dissertation hours. Students, fifth year or beyond, who have not successfully defended the dissertation are required to enroll in 1CH of Dissertation each fall and winter semester until it is completed.