Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology is a broad field of study which examines the behavior of people at work and in group settings. Applied industrial psychologists work with organizations in the area of personnel psychology (selection and placement), organizational development, personnel research, employee motivation, and consumer psychology.
Graduates of the program will be skilled in employee selection methods, performance assessment, job design methods, employee reward and compensation systems, career planning and development, organizational development methods, work motivation, leadership styles, and research methodology.
Most of the jobs held by graduates of this concentration are in Human Resource Departments of corporations. Graduates would likely begin at the research or technician level, but would be eligible for management positions because of the breadth of their training.
Health Psychology
The Health Psychology curriculum focuses on psychological and behavioral factors in illness, dysfunction, and medical treatment. The emphasis is on psycho-social, cognitive, and behavioral approaches for helping with a wide range of illnesses and dysfunction such as chronic pain, coronary/artery diseases, and the problems associated with treatment of cancer patients.
Beyond assisting in medical treatment interventions, health psychologists also are involved in developing and implementing interventions affecting fitness, disease prevention, work environment modification, and lifestyle change.
The core competencies in the Health Psychology concentration could be utilized in health care, human services, business/industry, and community settings for promoting healthy lifestyles, aiding the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of illness and related dysfunction, and in applying psycho-social approaches facilitating rehabilitation.
Program Evaluation
Program evaluators conduct applied studies in organizational planning, decision-making, and accountability. Program evaluators are involved with project evaluation, compliance reviews, program audits, quality control, quality assurance, and planning and development.
Examples of typical expectations for program evaluators may include designing and conducting studies of the effectiveness of current social programs, of consumer needs for products and services, and of the comparative efficiency of alternate processes and products.
Employment may be in business and industry, in government agencies, in educational institutions, in human service agencies, and in consulting and contract research organizations.
| Selectives Part of your concentration includes selective courses. These selectives are chosen in part from all of the concentrations. We highly encourage you to choose courses from the other two concentrations in order that you gain a breadth of learning from the fields of Applied Psychology that the MSAP represents. Discuss other appropriate selective courses with the Program Director. |