Program of Study
Psychology doctoral general course requirements
- Statistics I
- Statistics II
- Teaching of Psychology
- Ethics
Core training area courses
- Animal Behavior I: Neuroethology and Mechanisms
- Animal Behavior II: Behavioral Ecology and Evolution
- Research Methods: Current Research in Animal Behavior at CUNY
Research rotations
- Laboratory/Field Work I
- Laboratory/Field Work II
Elective courses (3 required with at least two from different groups)
Group 1: Psychological Processes
- Basic Processes I
- Basic Processes II
- Associative Learning
- Learning
- Categorization and Concept Formation
- Comparative Cognition
Group 2: Mechanisms of Behavior
- Communication Systems
- Neuroscience I, II, and/or III
- Neural mechanisms of decisions making
Group 3: Behavior in context
- Evolution and Behavior
- Applied Animal Behavior
- Human-Animal Interactions
- Translational Animal Behavior
- Conservation Biology
- Any other relevant graduate courses as approved by the student’s committee.
Sample training sequence for Years 1-5
This sequence is designed so that students will complete their 60-credit requirement by the middle or the end of their third year of doctoral study, thus averaging 9-12 credits per semester.
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Year 1, Fall
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Animal Behavior I
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Statistics I
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Rotation I
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Research Methods Seminar
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Year 1, Spring
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Animal Behavior II
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Statistics II
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Rotation II
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Ethics
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Year 2, Fall
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Teaching of Psychology
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Elective I
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Research
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Research Methods Seminar
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Year 2, Spring
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Elective II
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Research
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Research
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FIRST EXAM
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Year 3, Fall
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Elective III
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Research
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Research
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Research
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Year 3, Spring
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Research
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Research
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Research
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SECOND EXAM
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Year 4
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Research
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Research
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Research
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Research
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Year 5
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Research
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Research
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Research
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DEFENSE
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