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Psychology Graduate Program (MA, PhD)

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MA Program Requirements (Clinical Psychology)


To be awarded the Psychology MA (Clinical Psychology) degree, students must complete the following requirements.

The Master of Psychology is offered on a full-time basis only, and is a two-year program. Required courses are typically offered every year; elective courses offered vary from year to year.

MA Degree Requirements (Clinical Psychology)

PS8101 Statistics and Research Design I
-normally completed in the Fall term of MA Year 1
PS8301Psychopathology
-normally completed in the Fall term of MA Year 1
PS8309
Psychological Assessment I
-normally completed in the Fall term of MA Year 1
PS8102 Statistics and Research Design II
-normally completed in the Winter term of MA Year 1
PS8303Systems of Psychotherapy
-normally completed in the Winter term of MA Year 1
PS8310
Psychological Assessment II
-normally completed in the Winter term of MA Year 1
PS8306Practicum in Clinical Psychology I
-normally starts in the Summer term of MA Year 1
PS8103Clinical Research Methods
-normally completed in the Fall term of MA Year 2
PS8304
Treatment of Psychological Disorders
-normally completed in the Winter term of MA Year 2
Milestone: MA Thesis
-to be completed by August 31 of MA Year 2
Electives: 2 Psychology electives*
-a minimum of one elective should be completed in MA Year 1,
and all electives should be completed by May 1 of MA Year 2

* * Clinical psychology students are required to take graduate or undergraduate courses covering the five core areas.

Core Areas 

The Canadian Psychological Association defines five core areas that must be covered by the curriculum of all CPA accredited programs. Core areas include:

  1. Biological Bases of Behaviour
  2. Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behaviour
  3. Social Bases of Behaviour
  4. Individual Behaviour
  5. Historical and Scientific Foundations of General Psychology

To meet the first four core areas, students are required to have taken two senior undergraduate classes or one graduate class in each area (by the end of the PhD in clinical psychology).

Students must have taken one class at the undergraduate or graduate level fulfilling the historical and scientific foundations core area by the end of the PhD in clinical psychology (e.g.: PS9101 History of Psychology).

For official program requirement listings, please see the official Graduate Studies Calendar.

The School of Graduate Studies minimum residency requirement for the MA and PhD programs in psychology is six academic terms (for each program); note that each academic year is three terms. Continuous enrollment throughout the residency period is required.

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