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Behavior Analysis

• Description
• Faculty
• Admissions
• M.A. Requirements
• Ph.D. Requirements

The Doctoral Program in Behavior Analysis prepares students for teaching and for applied work and research involving behavioral pharmacology, business and industry, community mental health, developmental disabilities (including autism), education, government, and substance abuse. A minimum of 78 semester hours, with a minimum grade of B in each course, is required. The student must have completed all MA requirements, including the MA project or thesis, before additional academic credits can count towards the Ph.D. Thirty hours of coursework and 12 dissertation credit hours are required after 36 credits for the Masters degree.

Requirements

I. CORE COURSES (27 hrs.)^#

Area 1: Applied Behavior Analysis (6 hrs.)

• Two of the following:
  6090 Advanced Seminar in ABA Research
  6450  Psychology of Work
  6510  ABA:  A Systems Approach
  6650  Behavioral Approaches to Treatment         
  6680  Analysis & Intervention in Devopmental Disabilities

  One of the following may be substituted for one of the above
  courses by petition:
  5400 Psychology of Safety
  6170  Applied Behavior Analysis in Education
  6440  Personnel Training and Development
  6640  Behavior Therapy
  6690  Child Behavior Therapy
  6900  Behavioral Approaches to Training and Education
  

 

Area 2: Experimental Analysis of Behavior (6 hrs.)

• 6100 Conditioning and Learning
• 6110 Current Research in EAB

Area 3: Conceptual & Theoretical Issues (6 hrs.)

• 6710 Complex Behavioral Processes and Their Applications
• 6740 Verbal Behavior
• 6760 Skinner's Behaviorism
• 6970 Behaviorism and the Philosophy of Science

Area 4: Research Methods & Statistics (6 hrs.)

• 6080 Research Methods in ABA
• 6340 Exp design & Analysis I

Area 5: Professional Issues (3 hrs.)

• 6050 Professional & Ethical Issues in Psychology

II. ELECTIVE COURSES (15 or more hrs.)

Area 6: Electives

• 5400 Psychology of Safety
• 5600 Behavioral Medicine
• 5950 History of Psychology
• 5970/6970 Advanced Seminars (up to 6 hrs.)*
• 6120 Advanced Physiological Psychology
• 6130 Behavioral Pharmacology and Toxicology
• 6170 Applied Behavior Analysis in Education
• 6200 Analysis of Abnormal Behavior
• 6360 Experimental Design and Analysis II
• 6430 Personnel Selection and Placement
• 6440 Personnel Training and Development
• 6450 Psychology of Work
• 6510 Applied Behavior Analysis: A Systems Approach
• 6520 Systems Analysis
• 6640 Behavior Therapy
• 6650 Behavioral Approaches to Treatment
• 6680 Analysis and Intervention in Devopmental Disabilities
• 6690 Child Behavior Therapy
• 6710 Complex Behavioral Processes & Their Applications
• 6740 Verbal Behavior
• 6760 Skinner's Behaviorism
• 6860 Advanced Behavioral Assessment
• 6900 Behavioral Approaches to Training and Education
• 6970 Developmental Psychopathology
• 6970 Social & Cognitive Development of Children

The student also can select from Psychology courses not listed above and from courses offered outside of the Psychology Department. These courses must be relevant to the student's career goals as a behavior analyst and approved by the student's advisor prior to enrolling in the course.

III. RESEARCH & PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE (27 or more hrs.)

Area 7: Master's Thesis or Project (6 hrs.)

• 6970 ABA Project
• 7000 Master's Thesis

Area 8: Professional Experience (9 or more hrs.)

• 5470 Practicum in Organizational Performance Improvement
• 5980 Special Projects in Psychology
• 5990 Practicum
• 6910 College Teaching Practicum
• 7100 Independent Research
• 7120 Professional Field Experience
• 6950 Doctoral Internship in Behavior Analysis

Area 9: Doctoral Dissertation (12 hrs.)

• 7300 Doctoral Dissertation

Area 10: Research Tools

The student will show a working knowledge of two research tools (5-6 hrs. for each research tool). This knowledge will be demonstrated through satisfactory completion of course work and/or a clear demonstration of competence in tool use in the preparation, implementation, and dissemination of research data. Research tools should be selected in conference with the student's dissertation committee.

Area 11: Professional and Scholarly Activity

The student will complete a six-hour examination prepared by his or her doctoral committee. The area of study is defined by the student in consultation with his or her advisor and dissertation committee. As an alternative, a student can publish a first-authored article or prepare and submit a grant proposal. These activities will be approved by appropriate faculty members.

*Students entering the Ph.D. program during the 2008-2009 academic year must follow these guidelines. Students enrolled at an earlier data may follow these guidelines, or those in place when they were admitted.

^#Please note that a course cannot satisfy more than one requirement in Areas 1-6.
* 5970/6970 is not a course for substition petititons.