PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY PROGRAM

                         DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

The University of New Hampshire Department of Psychology Ph.D. program was started in the mid-1960s with support from the National Science Foundation and the University. The goal of the program is to prepare Ph.D. level psychologists who would secure faculty positions. The curriculum was designed to provide graduate students with a strong general background, opportunity to study with faculty in a specialty area, in-depth coursework in statistics and research methods, and a solid grounding in history and theory of psychology. The centerpiece of the program during the past 30 plus years has been and continues to be the formal background students receive in the area of college teaching and faculty roles.

The entire experience that our graduate students receive is designed to foster their development as psychologists and as faculty members. A full description of our curriculum is provided in a Teaching of Psychology article (1993, 20, 149-155). Our graduates have been highly successful in securing academic positions. Many of them have taken positions at liberal arts colleges and comprehensive universities. Some graduates have secured positions at research universities, after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship.

In the years ahead, we anticipate developing our program in significant ways that reflect emerging PFF practice and building on what we have learned over the last 30 years. Higher education has changed much during this period. The next generation of our program will respond to those changes and, hopefully, play an important role in shaping the preparation of future faculty.

  Links

UNH Psychology Department Program

UNH PFF Program

Cognate and Master of Science for Teachers (MST)

Other PFF links

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