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Environmental Psychology.

Program Outline | Course of Study | Field Trips | Student Research Interests | Faculty | Recent Dissertations | Program Handbook


The handbook for Environmental Psychology students is available for download as a Microsoft Office Word document. The handbook covers all of the program guidelines from course requirements to the dissertation defense.

For information on preparing the doctoral dissertation, you can visit:
http://inside.gc.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/registrar/docdiss.htm

To download the handbook, click on the following links:

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

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