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 areas also complete advanced coursework in their area.
General Psychology Core
- PY 629 Biological Bases of Behavior
- PY 630 Affective Neuroscience (clinical students only)
- PY 650 Cognition and Learning
- PY 671 History and Systems (clinical students only, if applicable)
- Two of PY 670 Perception, PY 652 Affect and Lifespan Developmental Psychology, PY672 Advanced Social Psychology (some areas require 2 specific courses from this set)
- PY 695 Teaching of Psychology
Research Skills Core
- PY 607 Research Methods in Psychology
- PY 602 Advanced Statistics I
- PY 603 Advanced Statistics II
- PY 604 Multivariate Methods of Analysis, PY 659, BER 646 Structural Equation Modeling, PY 693 statistics topics, or approved alternative statistics course (see details here: https://psychology.ua.edu/graduate-studies/statistics-minor/)
Advanced Coursework
As applicable:
- Clinical Core
- Advanced coursework in
- Clinical Child
- Clinical Health
- Clinical Geropsychology
- Psychology and Law
- Cognitive Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Development Science
Thesis and Dissertation Hours
- PY 599 Thesis Research (6 hours)
- PY 699 Dissertation Research (24 hours)