All graduate students complete the General Psychology Core, the Research Skills Core, a master's thesis and a doctoral dissertation. In addition, clinical students complete the Clinical Core and a year-long clinical internship. Students in each of the clinical and experimental concentrations also complete advanced coursework in their concentration.

General Psychology Core:

• PY650 Cognition and Learning
• PY651 Physiological Psychology or PY629 Cognitive Neuroscience
• Two of: PY670 Perception, PY652 Life-Span Developmental Psychology, PY672 Advanced Social Psychology  (some concentrations require a specific course from this set)
• PY471 History and Systems if not taken as an undergraduate

Research Skills Core:

• PY607 Research Methods in Psychology
• PY602 Advanced Statistics I
• PY603 Advanced Statistics II
• PY604 Multivariate Methods of Analysis, PY659/BER558 Psychometrics, BER646 Structural Equation Modeling, or approved alternative

Advanced Coursework as applicable:

• Clinical Core
• PY695 Teaching of Psychology (required for Experimental, optional for Clinical)
• Advanced Coursework in:
  • Clinical Child
  • Clinical Health
  • Clinical Geropsychology
  • Psychology and Law
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental Science

Thesis and Dissertation Hours:

• PY599 Thesis research (6 hours)
• PY699 Dissertation research (24 hours)