Curriculum Sequence

 

Year

Fall

Spring

Summer

1st EPSY 6300 – Introduction to School Psychology (3) 1EPSY 6720 – Master’s Practicum In School Psychology (1-3)EPSY 8140 – Developmental Psychopathology and Schooling (3) 1ERSH 8310 – Applied Analysis of Variance Methods in Education (3) 1EPSY 7200 – Diagnosis of Social/Emotional Behavior in Education (3) 1EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) EPSY 7100 – Individual Assessment of Development (3) 1EPSY 6720 – Master’s Practicum In School Psychology (1-3)ERSH 8320 – Applied Correlation and Regression Methods in Education (3) 1CHFD 6100, Theories and Issues in Human Development (3)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) EPSY 8720-Practicum in School Psychology [School Psychology Clinic] 1(3)EPSY 7720 Practicum in Psychoeducational Assessment (2)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)
2nd EPSY 7720 –Practicum in Psychoeducational Assessment [School Psychology Clinic] 1(6)ERSH 8610 – Educational Measurement Theory (3)EPSY 7330 – Individual Academic Interventions (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) EPSY 7720 –Practicum in Psychoeducational Assessment [School Psychology Clinic] 1(6)** EPSY 7310 – Consultation Processes in Educational Settings (3) or EPSY 7320 – Individual Psychoeducational Intervention (3)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) EPSY 8720 –Practicum in School Psychology [School Psychology Clinic] 1(1)EPSY 7720 Practicum in Psychoeducational Assessment (6)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) (1-3)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)
3rd EPSY 8720 –Practicum in School Psychology – External practicum (3-6)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) or EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) EPSY 8720 –Practicum in School Psychology – External practicum (3-6)** EPSY 7310 –Consultation Processes in Educational Settings (3) or EPSY 7320 – Individual Psychoeducational Intervention (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) or EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-3)EPSY 8990 – Doctoral Seminar in Educational Psychology (1-3) (Varied) Written Comprehensive Exams # Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)EPSY 7000 (Master’s Research) or 7300 (Master’s Thesis) or EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-9)
4th EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-9)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3) EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-9)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3) EPSY 9000 (Doctoral Research) or EPSY 9300 (Doctoral Dissertation) (1-9)# Minor coursework / Cognition / Motivation / Biological / History / Education course / Statistics (3)EPSY 9720 Advanced Internship in School Psychology (2) 2
5th EPSY 9720 Advanced Internship in School Psychology (2) 2 EPSY 9720 Advanced Internship in School Psychology (2) 2 EPSY 9720 Advanced Internship in School Psychology (3) 2

Notes:

1 Must be taken in semesters indicated.

2 You must sign up for 9 hrs total of EPSY 9720 during your internship year.

You must take 2 credit hours of 9720 the summer before you start (i.e., most internships will have a start date that falls before the beginning of the Fall semester) as well as 3 credit hours of 9720 during the following summer to ensure that you are a registered student at UGA all terms during which you are on internship. You must also register for 2 hours of 9720 during the Fall term of the internship year and 2 hours the Spring term of the internship year.

** – These are required courses that will be offered every other year. EPSY 7330 and CHFD 6100 should be completed in Year 1 and Year 2. EPSY 7320 and EPSY 7310 should be completed in Year 2 and Year 3.

# – Minor coursework requirement:

Three-course sequence of study in student’s declared minor concentration area.

# – Additional required courses to be completed prior to internship:

  1. EPSY 6800 – Foundations of Cognition for Education (3 hrs)
  2. PSYC 6180 – History of Psychology or equivalent (3 hrs)
  3. PSYC 6130 – Biological Foundations of Behavior (3 hrs) or ECHD 8610 Fundamentals Of Behavioral Neuroscience
  4. EDAP 7040 – School Law (3 hrs).
  5. PSYC 6200 Advanced Social Psychology
  6. A fourth statistics course, such as ERSH 8350 (Multivariate Methods in Education), ERSH 8740 (Exploratory Factor Analysis), ERSH 8750 (Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling)

Note about statistics and measurement coursework:

ERSH courses 8310, 8320, and 8610 are prerequisites for many other ERSH courses. Therefore, students are encouraged to take all 3 courses during their first three semesters of study.

For students who desire a strong background in statistics and measurement, the following sequence is recommended for the first two years of study (based on recent course scheduling):

Year Fall Spring Summer
1 ERSH 8310 ERSH 8320 ERSH 8740
2 ERSH 8610; ERSH 8350 ERSH 8750