Each masters level minor in the Department of Educational Psychology requires 12 credit hours of courses in Educational Psychology. These twelve hours must form a coherent program of study.
For the doctorate program the minor in the Educational Psychology consists of 15 credit hours of courses in Educational Psychology. At least six of these credit hours must be in courses open exclusively to graduate students (900 level or 800 level without 400 level or lower counterparts). In addition, if the minor is associated with the doctorate program of studies, then the student’s supervisory committee must have a Department of Educational Psychology faculty member on the committee.
There are three minors possible: Statistics and/or Measurement, Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, and Cognition, Learning, and Development.
I. Statistics and/or Measurement Minor
EDPS 859 Statistical Methods (or equivalent)
Plus three of the following:
EDPS 870 Intro to Ed & Psych Measurement
EDPS 860 Applications of Selected Advanced Systems
EDPS 941 Intermediate Statistics: Experimental Methods
EDPS 942 Intermediate Statistics: Correlational Methods
EDPS 969 Nonparametric Statistics Methods
EDPS 970 Theory and Methods of Educational Measurement
EDPS 972 Multivariate Analysis
II. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Minor
EDPS 859 Statistical Methods (or equivalent)
EDPS 800 Foundations of Educational Research or equivalent
EDPS 900A Correlational and Experimental Methods
OR
EDPS 900B Single Case/Small N Methods in Educational Research
EDPS 900J Historical Methods in Educational Research
OR
EDPS 900K Qualitative Approaches in Educational Research
III. Cognition, Learning, and Development Minor
Any of the four of the following; two of which must be at the 900 level:
EDPS 850 Child Psychology
EDPS 851 Psychology of Adolescence
EDPS 854 Human Cognition and Instruction
EDPS 855 Teaching Learners to Learn
EDPS 863 Human Behavior Analysis
EDPS 960 Problem Solving and Concept Learning in Humans
EDPS 966 Psychology of Learning
EDPS 961 Cognitive Development
EDPS 962 Research Literature in Personality & Social Development
EDPS 963 Development Psychobiology
EDPS 977 College Student Development
EDPS 989 Psychology of Reading
EDPS 991 Seminar in Educational Psychology
