PROGRAM HANDBOOK

The Environmental Psychology Program Handbook is the essential guide to the program, approved by the program’s executive committee. Each section or the entire handbook is available for download as a MS Word document.

Section 1: Admitted Students
Completing an Admissions File; Statistics Prerequisite; Ethics;The Program; Faculty; Student Financial Aid; Environmental Psychology Orientation Day; Student Information on the Web

Section 2: Coursework
"Level" and "Status"; Coursework in Other Programs, at Other Campuses, and the Interuniversity Doctoral Consortium; Concentration in Health Psychology; Other Concentrations; Transferring Credits; New York State Licensing Information; 30 Credits of Required Coursework & The Semester Usually Offered; Coursework Schedule Decisions; Example: A Full-Time, Six Semester Schedule of Coursework; Part Time Schedule; Changing a Course Schedule During a Semester;Student Initiated Credits; Methods Modules; Dissertation Seminar; Student Evaluation of Coursework

Section 3: First Doctoral Exam
The Requirement and the Rationale; Preparatory Coursework; The Examination; Outcomes of the Examination; Completed Examinations

Section 4: Field Research Paper
The Requirement and the Rationale;Preparatory Coursework; The Project; Format; Program Resource File; Human Subjects Research Approval

Section 5: En Route Masters Degree
Requirements; Transfer and GPA Credits; Filing with the Program Administrator

Section 6: Second Doctoral Exam
On the Openness of Procedures; Summary of the Requirement; The Examination Committee; The Reading List; The Pre-Examination Statement; The Oral Examination; Outcomes of the Examination

Section 7: Topic Proposal
Types of Dissertations; Developments of a Dissertation Problem; Scope of a Topic Proposal; Dissertation Committee Selection; Advancement to Candidacy; Guidance in Approaching a Dissertation

Section 8: Dissertation Proposal
Development and Approval of the Proposal; Participants in Research; Instructions to the Sponsor and Committee

Section 9: The Dissertation
The Research; Writing the Dissertation; The Dissertation Draft; Evaluation of the Dissertation by the Dissertation Committee; Evaluation of the Dissertation by the Outide Readers; The Graduate Center Dissertation Librarian; American Psychological Association Style (For information on preparing the doctoral dissertation for submission to The Graduate Center, you can learn more here.)

Section 10: The Final Examination
Revisions Prior to the Final Examination; The Dissertation Examining Committee; Events of the Final Examination; Publicness of the Final Examination; Absence of an Examining Committee Member; Final Revisions to the Dissertation; American Psychological Association Style; Depositing the Dissertation; Graduation