PGSP's Distance Learning Program/Courses
What is the Program?
The program consists of 41 quarter units of coursework. There is no thesis requirement. These courses are taken over a two-year period during the regular academic year (i.e., no summer classes). The courses are structured so that most quarters there are only two courses running at any point in time.
The courses in the program are the same courses as those offered to the doctoral students in the first year in PGSP’s residential Ph.D. program with two exceptions (Clinical Interviewing and Introduction to Psychotherapy). The courses are didactic in nature and do not contain an applied clinical component. That is why the degree associated with the program is in psychology and not clinical psychology, even though some of the content is obviously relevant to clinical psychology.
The schedule for 2008-09 is in the table below.
Distance Learning Schedule for 2008-2009
Courses for Students Entering Fall 2008
Fall 2008
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| P253A-DL Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy I | Sharp | 3 |
| T301A-DL History & Systems | Wagner | 3 |
| T301B-DL Child & Adolescent Development | Wagner | 1.5 |
| T303A-DL Adult Development & Aging | Gomez | 1.5 |
| | Total=7.5 |
Winter 2009
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| T301C-DL Cognitive Bases of Behavior | Field | 2 |
| T302A-DL Affective Bases of Behavior | Field | 2 |
| T303B-DL Neuropsychology | Wisniewski | 2.5 |
| | Total=6.5 |
Spring 2009
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| F201-DL Ethics in Clinical Psychology | Packman | 3 |
| T302B-DL Psychopharmacology | Wisniewski | 2.5 |
| T303C-DL Social & Personality Bases of Behavior | TBA | 2 |
| | Total=7.5 |
Courses for Students Entering Fall 2008
(i.e., second year of program)
Fall 2008
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| E212A-DL Psychopathology I | Briscoe-Smith | 2 |
| R201-DL Research Methods | Gomez | 4 |
| | Total=6 |
Winter 2009
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| E212B-DL Psychopathology II | Zalewski | 2 |
| R202-DL Statistics I | Gomez | 4 |
| | Total=6 |
Spring 2009
| Course |
Instructor |
Units |
| E212C-DL Psychopathology III | Zalewski | 2 |
| R203-DL Statistics II | Gomez | 4 |
| | Total=6 |
By offering the same courses as we do on campus taught by the same faculty members, we have been able to insure that the quality of instruction in the DL program is very high. Data we currently have indicates that the performance of students in the DL program is comparable to that of students taking the same classes on campus.
