Path to Degree
BASP TIMELINE for COURSE of STUDY and Milestone Requirements
| YEAR ONE |
YEAR TWO |
YEAR THREE |
YEAR FOUR | YEAR FIVE |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NUMBER OF COURSE CREDITS COMPLETED | 21 |
42 |
60 |
60 |
60 |
| PROPOSALS |
First-Doc Proposal |
Dissertation Proposal |
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| MILESTONES |
First Doc | Second Doc | Comprehensive Doctoral Activities | Dissertation |
BASP Required Courses & Model Curriculum
(Sample Course Sequence)
| FALL YEAR ONE | SPRING YEAR ONE |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology I1 (84600) | Elective core course2 |
| Research Methods & Design (70310) | Research Practicum (70330) |
| Stat Methods in Psych I (70500) | Stat Methods in Psych II (70600) |
| BASP Colloquium | BASP Colloquium |
| FALL YEAR TWO | SPRING YEAR TWO |
|---|---|
| Social Psychology II1 (84800) | Ethics (77100)4 |
| Teaching of Psychology 4 | Elective-core course 2 |
| BASP Pro-seminar | Breadth elective 3 |
| BASP Colloquium | BASP Colloquium |
| FALL YEAR THREE | SPRING YEAR THREE |
|---|---|
| Elective-core course2 | General Elective |
| Professional Development | Indep Psych Research (80200) |
| Breadth elective 3 | Advanced Statistics Elective |
| BASP Colloquium | BASP Colloquium5 |
| FALL YEAR FOUR | SPRING YEAR FOUR |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Doctoral Activities | Comprehensive Doctoral Activities |
| Dissertation Proposal | Dissertation work |
| FALL YEAR FIVE | SPRING YEAR FIVE |
|---|---|
| Planning for post-do and job applications | Post-doc and job applications |
| Dissertation work | Complete and defend dissertation |
| Publication and conference presentations | Publication submission |
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1 Social Psychology I and II can be taken in Year 1 or Year 2, depending on when offered.
2 One course in the listing of Elective-core courses within BASP training area
3 One Breadth-elective course (outside of BASP training area)
4 Teaching of Psychology and Ethics should be taken based on availability can be taken in Year 1 or Year 2, depending on when offered.
5 Students are required to take a total of 6 BASP colloquium credits. Although it is preferable that students fulfill these credits within the first three years, these credits can be taken at any point in their graduate training.
Comprehensive Doctoral Activities Milestone
To complete the requirements of the Comprehensive Doctoral Activities, students must engage successfully in a number of professional activities that are intimately associated with the creation, communication, and dissemination of scholarship in social psychology. Although this milestone is not a requirement of the Graduate Center Psychology doctoral program, all students will be required to complete the Comprehensive Doctoral Activities to complete the BASP program.
To successfully complete the comprehensive doctoral activities milestone, students are required to complete all of the following activities:
- Submit a first-authored manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal, and complete any necessary follow-up revise-&-resubmit procedures. The process of publishing the manuscript should allow students to develop skills of responding to editor and peer reviews (either directly via a revise & resubmit OR via a new submission to a different journal). The manuscript could be based on the student’s first-doc research project, an alternative project with her or his faculty advisor, or a project with a faculty member who is not the advisor (e.g., another BASP faculty member or non-CUNY or BASP faculty member). The peer-reviewed journal to which the article is submitted is subject to the approval of the student’s faculty advisor.
- Present a poster or paper at a relevant regional, national or international conference. The student should be first author on the presentation.
- Attend two professional conferences. One of the conferences must be SPSP, and the second conference must be hosted by a different organization. Acceptable conferences include, but are not limited to SPSP, APA, SPSSI, ISPP, APS, AP-LS, SBM, SESP, and regional conferences such as EPA and MPA.
