Psychology Graduate Program Overview

The graduate programs in Psychology at the University of Denver are oriented toward training qualified students to pursue careers in research, teaching, and professional practice. Areas in the Department include: Affect/Social; Clinical Child; Cognitive; Developmental; and a specialization in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN). We have approximately 47 full-time students in our graduate programs; approximately 87% percent of these students are women and 23% are minorities.

One of the special strengths of the Department is that each doctoral specialty includes a substantial proportion of faculty whose interests overlap and complement those of faculty in the other doctoral programs. This creates a collegial and collaborative atmosphere for research. These programs also share the following characteristics:

• An emphasis on individualized mentoring relationships between students and faculty.
• Research training with an emphasis on publishing and obtaining mentoring for external funding in an interdisciplinary, collaborative atmosphere.
• One of the unique features of our program is that we prepare students for careers that include some teaching.  The department offers a graduate seminar on teaching for formal training in teaching. Students are also encouraged to take full responsibility for teaching an undergraduate course during their graduate career.
• The Psychology Department views students as junior colleagues and seeks their input by having them serve on most departmental committees. Various special interest research groups meet regularly to discuss research issues. Funds, space, and equipment are available for student initiated projects. Travel funds and informal practice sessions assist students preparing to present papers at local and national conferences

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