Head of the Department: Emanuel Donchin
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GRADUATE FACULTY
Professors: R. Baillergeon, D. A. Bernstein, K. Bock, W. Brewer, G. L.
Clore, M. Coles, J. H. Davis, G. Dell, J. DeLoache, E. Diener, E. Donchin, F.
Drasgow, D. E. Dulany, C. W. Eriksen, F. Fincham, M. Fishbein, M. Gabriel, W.
T. Greenough, J. Hirsch, C. O. Hopkins, L. Hubert, C. L. Hulin, L. Jones, J.
Juraska, F. Kanfer, S. Komorita, A. Kramer, P. R. Laughlin, G. Logan, J.
Malpeli, R. McDonald, J. E. McGrath, G. Miller, N. Moray, J. Rappaport, E. Roy,
E. Shoben, T. Srull, H. C. Triandis, S. Wasserman, C. Wickens, R. Wyer
Associate Professors: M. Aber, M. Banich, H. Berenbaum, U. Bockenholt, G. Bradshaw, D. Budescu, P. Carnevale, E. Dzhafarou, L. Fitzgerald, D. Irwin, K. Miller, P. Miller, G. Murphy, B. Ross, P. Sanderson, J. Sniezek
Assistant Professors: C. Anderson, N. Cohen, K. Craig, S. Doane, C. Fisher, S. Garnsey, T. Harpur, W. Heller, G. Lintern, S. Mangelsdorf, J. Rhodes, K. Rosengren, L. Trejo, R. Wickesberg
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The Department of Psychology offers graduate work leading to the degrees of
master of arts, master of science, and doctor of philosophy. Doctor of
philosophy programs are offered in the following areas of psychology:
biological, developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychology; perception and
performance; personality and social ecology; quantitative; and
social/organizational individual differences. The master of arts degree is
awarded to students in the above programs as an intermediate degree. Master of
science programs are offered as terminal degrees in personnel psychology,
engineering psychology, and applied measurement psychology.
ADMISSION
The Graduate College admission requirements apply for all programs. The
candidate for admission to a master of arts or doctor of philosophy program
should ordinarily have the following preparation: a minimum of 15 hours in
psychology, a laboratory course in experimental psychology, a course in
statistics, a one-year course in another laboratory science, and high scores on
the Graduate Record Examination. Preference is given to students who have taken
mathematics beyond college algebra and to those who have some research
experience. Applications for admission to part-time study are usually not
approved.
MASTER OF ARTS
The master of arts degree is awarded as an intermediate degree to students who
are Ph.D. candidates, when they have satisfactorily completed 8 units of
graduate work, including an acceptable thesis.
MASTER OF SCIENCE
The degree of master of science in personnel psychology, in engineering
psychology, or in applied measurement is awarded as a terminal degree to
candidates who have had an appropriate applied psychology undergraduate program
and who satisfactorily complete 8 prescribed graduate units in their
specialty.
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
The doctor of philosophy degree is awarded to candidates who complete an
approved program in their area of specialization and meet departmental and
Graduate College requirements for the degree. These must include at least 24
graduate units beyond the bachelor's degree; satisfactory performance in
courses or examinations dealing with quantitative methods, conceptual
foundations of psychology, and chosen areas of specialization; a master's
thesis or equivalent; appropriate advanced courses and seminars in the area of
specialization and in related and supporting areas; satisfactory performance on
a doctoral qualifying examination; satisfactory performance on an oral
preliminary examination; completion of an acceptable Ph.D. thesis; and
satisfactory performance on an oral examination in defense of the thesis.
Although teaching is not a general Graduate College requirement, this department requires Ph.D. candidates to do some teaching as part of their academic work, such experience being considered a vital part of the graduate program. This usually takes the form of a teaching assistantship for at least one semester.
Individually tailored programs of study can be developed within the general requirements of medical training and graduate study in psychology. Degree work will be arranged to accommodate the scheduling requirements of both programs, but the course of study in psychology will be equivalent to that of all other doctoral candidates. More details about the Medical Scholars Program are available from the associate dean for academic affairs, College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 190 Medical Sciences Building , 506 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.
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