1. Psychology
  2. Training Areas
  3. Basic and Applied Social Psychology
  4. Path to Degree

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		  
 
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:

  1. 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.
  2. Present a poster or paper at a relevant regional, national or international conference.  The student should be first author on the presentation.
  3. 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.