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Clinical Area Graduate Requirements

Breadth Courses (all Clinical students)

The three required breadth courses need to be at the 500 level. In individual cases, petitions for substituting courses at the 400 level can be considered by the Clinical Training Committee, but such a substitution would need to include plans for insuring that such a course provides a true graduate level experience in the course.

The courses selected to satisfy the breadth requirement need to be approved by the student's advisor.

In the case of a 500 level breadth course taken outside of the department, the selected course needs also to be approved by the Director of Graduate Training.

Breadth/Depth Requirement (All clinical students)

For Adult Clinical students, a breadth project is required. The topic of the empirical study which makes up the breadth project is determined by the student in conjunction with the faculty supervisor of the project. For Child Clinical students, depth in Developmental Psychology is required. This requirement is met by completing three (3) graduate courses (typically from Psychology or HDFS, or occasionally from another program), in which the course syllabi provide evidence of substantive coverage of Developmental Psychology, and an empirical study, publishable review paper, or submitted dissertation grant proposal.

The only constraint is that one of the student's three required research project (master's, breadth project, and dissertation) must be supervised by a different faculty member. The breadth project can be supervised by a faculty member outside the department.

The completed breadth project will be submitted to the student's comprehensive committee for its review and approval at the time of the comprehensive examination.

A minimum of three (3) credits of independent study is required for the breadth project, and six (6) credits for the depth requirement.

Analogous to the master's thesis, the faculty aspire to provide the student with opportunities throughout the breadth project process to contribute at least equally, and in most cases predominantly, to the generation of the research question.