Department Information

and
Typical Discipline-Specific Academic Degree and Qualifications¹
of faculty within

Psychology

General Description of the Department

The Psychology Department has an outstanding faculty with a distinguished teaching and research record; a large, committed, and diverse group of students in its undergraduate and graduate programs; and ongoing labs and research programs that provide ample opportunity to gain experience in innovative and exciting cutting edge research. In striving for recognition as a leader in the field, we are seeking to maintain the balance in teaching and research to serve the people of Southeast Florida, state, nation and international community.

The Psychology Department is committed to taking a lead in the University’s strivings for outstanding teaching and cutting edge research. In doing so, we also affirm the goal of becoming a “flagship” psychology department, distinct in its approach to the unique issues that confront an urban teaching and research psychology department at the beginning of the 21st century. To this end, the Department has begun to identify and address issues and set goals that need to be addressed as a psychology department in an urban university in a global city with a multiethnic/multicultural population at the cutting edge of change in the 21st century.

Degrees offered

The Psychology Department offers these programs:

BA in Psychology

MS in Psychology

JD/MS in Psychology

Ph.D. in Psychology

Terminal Degree² for each discipline taught in Psychology

Ph.D, Psy.D. in Psychology (all disciplines in Psychology)

Related Disciplines³

Animal Behavior and Ethology (26.0708) - all courses

Child Development (19.0706) - all courses

Human Development and Family Studies (19.0701) - all courses

Neuroscience (26.1501) - all courses

Related Disciplines³ for specific courses

Business Administration and Management (52.0201) – all INP courses, CLP 6436, PSY

4941, 5918

Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling (51.1501) – DEP 4014, 4046, 5315, 6117, PCO 5251

Mental Health Counseling/Counselor (51.1508) – PPE 3003

Other Teaching Qualifications (Description of Required Academic Degree and Justifications⁴ for the programs in Psychology)

Consideration of other teaching qualifications in lieu of academic credentials is made on a case-by-case basis and accepted in special cases where evidence of exceptional experience, research or other qualifications can be documented and are directly applicable to the course being taught.

^1	Whenever instructors are not credentialed by their advanced degree or by an approved CIP relationship, they must be credentialed through a narrative justification of the instructor’s qualifications to teach this/these course(s). Such credentialing is based on the proposed instructor’s academic and professional preparation; diplomas, certificates, or relevant licensures; publications and presentations in the field; honors, awards, and professional recognitions; and other demonstrated competencies, skills, and experiences which the instructor brings to the University. These must be clearly tied to the specific courses to be taught and should establish beyond doubt that the instructor is qualified to teach the specific courses they are to be assigned. The Office of the Provost reviews all such justifications and where the justifications warrant the instructor’s teaching the courses proposed, it will either approve the justification for the appropriate period (seven years for full-time faculty members, or four years for part-time faculty members) or employ one of two additional clearance categories beyond the advanced degree and related-discipline categories which it may use to credential some instructors where their accomplishments warrant this: Active Research Clearance in the Discipline or Active Artistic/Special Talent Clearance in the Discipline
^2	The level and discipline of the terminal degree (e.g., Ph.D., MS, MFA, doctorate) that is required to teach graduate courses in the discipline
^3	For each discipline, all strongly-related degree(s) and/or equivalent names for the discipline (include level) that would also be appropriate for teaching at the graduate level
^4	(1)The appropriate academic degrees and justifications for each related degree above if not obvious; (2) the justification for why the terminal degree is not a doctorate in a discipline, e.g., specific examples of best practice in the discipline and accrediting association language; and (3) any other criteria used to determine appropriate academic qualifications to teach specialty courses in the program.

Current as of 3/11/11