Coursework: Clinical PhD in Fresno

Coursework

The PhD Program requires a minimum of 120 academic units and 30 internship units. Requirements for advancement to candidacy for Fresno students include in the following order:

1. successful completion of 60 units of graduate study at the Fresno campus;
2. successful defense of their dissertation proposal at the Preliminary Oral Examination;
3. and passing the Comprehensive Examination. The examination will be given once each semester. Students may take the exam as many times as necessary during the seven years allowable for the completion of the doctoral degree. Students may not apply for internship until they have passed the exam.

First Year

• PSY 6051 Data Analysis & Research Design (3 units)
• PST 6052 Data Analysis & Program Evaluation (3 units)
• PSY 6507 Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice 1A (3 units)
• PSY 6508 Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice 1B (3 units)
• PSY 6501 Intellectual Assessment (3 units)
• PSY 6505 Personality Assessment: Methods (3 units)
• PSY 6506 Personality Assessment: Integration (2 units)
• PSY 6112 Social Bases of Behavior (3 units)
• PSY 6530 Introduction to Ethical Practice and Law (1 unit)
• PSY 6123 Cultural Diversity Training (0 units)
• PSY 6034 First Year Research Practicum (2 units)

Second Year

• PSY 7510 Teaching Methods (3 units)
• PSY 6140 Life Span Developmental Psychology (3 units)
• PSY 7106 Biological Foundations of Clinical Practice (3 units)
• PSY XXXX 1 Required Intervention Course* (3 units)
• PSY XXXX 1 Required Research Methods Course** (2 units)
• PSY 8123a Cultural Diversity Training (0 units)
• PSY 6509 Supervision Experience (0 units)
• PSY 6510 Supervision Experience (0 units)
• PSY 6035 Second Year Research Practicum I (2 units)
• PSY 6036 Second Year Research Practicum I (2 units)
• PSY 7571 Second Year Clinical Practicum I (2 units)
• PSY 7572 Second Year Clinical Practicum II (2 units)
• PSY7905 PhD Proposal Development (1 unit)
• PSY9925 Doctoral Dissertation (3 units)

Third Year

• PSY 6101 Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior (3 units)
• PSY 7112 History and Systems of Psychology (2 units)
• PSY XXXX 1 Required Intervention Course* (3 units)
• PSY XXXX 1 Required Research Methods Course** (2 units)
• PSY XXXX 1 Required Teaching Course*** (2 units)
• PSY 7566 Ethical Foundations of Clinical Practice (2 units)
• PSY 8509 Supervision Seminar (1 unit)
• PSY 8510 Supervision Seminar (2 units)
• PSY 8123b Cultural Diversity Training (0 units)
• PSY 6037 Third Year Research Practicum I (2 units)
• PSY 8571 Third Year Clinical Practicum I (3 units)
• PSY 8572 Third Year Clinical Practicum II (3 units)
• PSY 9925 Doctoral Dissertation (2 units)

* Interventions Courses

• PSY 7529 Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Interventions (3 units)
• PSY 7537 Psychodynamic Approaches to Interventions (3 units)
• PSY 7543 Systems Approaches to Interventions (3 units)
• PSY 7604 Group Psychotherapy

** Research Methods Courses

• PSY 6065 Qualitative Research (2 units)
• PSY 6066 Ethnography (2 units)
• PSY 6067 Phenomenology (2 units)
• PSY 6068 Multivariate Statistics (2 units)
• PSY XXXX Evidence Based Methods (2 units)

*** Teaching Courses

• GSOE XXXX Educational Leadership
• PSY 8465 Distance Education Methods

Fourth Year

• PSY XXXX Grant Writing and Management (2 units)
• PSY 9925 Doctoral Dissertation (7, 8 units)
• PSY 8474 Fourth Year Teaching Practicum I (2 units)
• PSY 8475 Fourth Year Teaching Practicum II (2 units)

Fifth Year

• PSY 9531 Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Internship (15 units)
• PSY 9532 Full-Time Pre-Doctoral Internship (15 units)