Behavioral Science Ph.D. Program
Learning Outcomes
Goal 1: To provide a rigorous base of both broad knowledge and specialized expertise in psychology.
- Demonstrate broad knowledge in at least four core areas of behavioral science (600 level courses).
- Demonstrate expertise in a specialized topic (e.g.: focus area).
Goal 2: To provide a rigorous base of both broad knowledge and specialized expertise in methodological and data analytic and skills.
- Perform statistical tests.
- Use statistical packages for data management and analysis.
- Interpret statistics in psychological literature.
- Select and apply appropriate methods to ask and answer research questions.
Goal 3: To produce graduates with strong research and communication skills.
- Review and synthesize complex and original literature in appropriate format.
- Use web search engines to conduct literature searches
- Present and discuss work orally.
- Demonstrate ability to share knowledge in appropriate written formats.
Goal 4: To produce graduates who continually strive for multicultural competence.
- Demonstrate awareness of multiple perspectives.
- Apply multicultural perspectives in a practicum, teaching, research or service activity.
- Analyze and discuss research validity from a multicultural perspective.
- Demonstrate cognizance of potential biases by self-reflection and other perspective taking.
Goal 5: To prepare graduates for successful functioning in diverse professional roles, including academic research/teaching, industry, and as evaluation specialists in public service and policy settings.
- Apply ethical principles in professional activities (conduct ethical research and teaching).
- Demonstrate competence developing effective working relationships with individuals, groups, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrate scholarly productivity: present at conferences, publish, and apply for internal and external research funding.
- Engage in planning, problem solving, task completion relative to one’s professional development.