M.A. and Ed.S Program Required Courses

To be eligible for School Psychology licensure in the state of Indiana, students must complete a minimum of 60 semester hours of graduate work beyond the bachelor's degree including a school-based internship, amounting to the equivalent of two years of course work and a year of internship. To address National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) accreditation requirements, the course sequence in the M.A./Ed.S. program includes at least 73 semester hours of course work.

Required Courses:

EDPSY 606 - Human Learning and Achievement Motivation
EDPSY 612 - Psychological Consultation
EDPSY 640 - Methodology of Educational and Psychological Research
EDPSY 641 - Statistical Methods in Educational and Psychological Research
EDPSY 651 - Personality Assessment of Children and Adolescents
EDPSY 750 - Developmental Psychopathology

6 hours

EDPSY 653 - Individual Cognitive Assessment

4 hours

EDPSY 687 - Pre-Practicum--Introduction to School Psychology

1 hour

EDPSY 688 - Practicum in Consultation

3 hours

EDPSY 689 - Practicum in School Psychology

6 hours

EDPSY 690 - Supervised Internship in School Psychology

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CPSY 621 - Theories and Techniques of Counseling
CPSY 688 - Process and Techniques of Group Counseling

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SPCED 600 - Education of Exceptional Children
EDPSY 745 - Diagnosis and Interventions for Learning and Related Disorders

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EDPSY 646 - Tests and Measurements
EDPSY 746 - Theory of Measurement

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PSYSC 623 - Theories of Personality
CPSY 631 - Introduction to the Study of Personality

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PSYSC 632 - Abnormal Psychology
CPSY 636 - Psychopathology

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EDPSY 652 - Introduction to Neuropsychology
EDPSY 656 - Child Neuropsychology
PSYSC 668 - Physiological Psychology

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EDCUR 601 - Principles and Procedures of Curriculum Development
EDCUR 610 - The Elementary School Curriculum
EDCUR 620 - The Secondary School Curriculum
EDCUR 630 - The Junior High and Middle School Curriculum

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EDPSY 600 - Advanced Educational Psychology
EDPSY 765 - Theories of Learning
EDPSY 768 - Theories of Cognitive Development

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EDPSY 603 - Psychology of Human Development
EDPSY 627 - Child Development
EDPSY 628 - Adolescent Development

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EDRDG 610 - The Teaching of Reading in the Elementary School
EDRDG 620 - Content Area Reading
EDRDG 640 - Issues in the Teaching of Reading
EDRDG 680 - Classroom Reading Diagnosis
EDPSY 669 - Concepts in Devlopmental Neuropsycholinguistics

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SOPSY 610 - Social Psychology
SOPSY 615 - Social Cognition
SOPSY 620 - Group Dynamics
SOPSY 640 - Social Psychology of Attitudes
SOPSY 655 - Counseling Applications of Social Psychology
SOPSY 660 - Contemporary Social Psychology

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EDMUL 660 - Multicultural and Multiethnic Education in American Schools
EDMUL 670 - Social and Cultural Minorities in American Education
EDEL 644 - Education in a Diverse Society
EDFON 651 - Educational Sociology
CPSY 678 - Theories and Techniques of Counseling the Culturally Diverse