Areas of Study

Students can choose to develop their own unique plan of study within the low residency Masters in Psychology and Counseling Program based on their individual interests and goals. Individualized studies incorporate theory and research, personal experience and self-knowledge, and are influenced by current social complexities and the state of psychology. Students not interested in licensure can develop a non-clinical plan of study and internship, such as a community-based project. In addition, students can choose to focus on one of the low residency MA in Psychology and Counseling Program’s two concentrations.

Imagine a student who is interested in mythology and dreams. This student might choose to do work in the various histories of mythology across cultures. The student could examine those histories, in part, through the lenses of history and systems of psychology, social bases of behavior, personality, abnormal psychology, and cognition and learning. The student could explore their interest in dreams, in part, by examining our understanding of the sources and meanings of dreams through the lenses of biological bases of behavior, research methods, and human development. Each of these ways of understanding human experience can speak to this interest and all others.