From: dermer@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Marshall Dermer)
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Subject: Graduate Studies in Behavior Analysis at UW-Milwaukee
Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:54:28 GMT
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                    GRADUATE TRAINING IN BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
                   AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN--MILWAUKEE

    Behavior analysis is concerned with explaining the behavior of
    organisms by describing past and current features of the environment. 
    The program offers training in basic behavior analytic research
    methods, principles, and philosophy as well as their application in
    educational and other settings.  Although completion of an
    undergraduate major in psychology is desirable, it is not required.  
    Most important is a keen interest in experimentally evaluating the
    relations between the environment and behavior.
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    SPONSORS:  Alan Baron, Marshall L. Dermer, John C. Moore

    ADDRESS:   Department of Psychology/University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
               Milwaukee, WI 53201

    PHONE:     (414) 229-4746

    COORDINATOR: Please contact sponsors. Send for admission material now
                 to be considered for admission this fall.
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    DEGREES:  M.S., Ph.D. in Psychology.  Ordinarily students who wish to
    earn only the M.S. are not accepted into the program.  Most students
    earn the M.S. as preparation for earning the Ph.D.

    RESEARCH FACILITIES: The department has well-equipped laboratories.  
    The City of Milwaukee provides additional opportunities for research at
    such facilities as hospitals, local schools, the Milwaukee County
    Museum, and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

    TUITION AND FEES:  Resident: $1,643 Nonresident: $4,936.  All students
    enter the Ph.D. program with financial support in the form of teaching
    assistantships ($11,500 per 9 months) or research assistantships. With
    this support nonresident tuition is waived. Subsequent support, including
    fellowships, depends on the student making satisfactory progress and
    being in good standing.
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    MINIMUM GRADE POINT AVERAGE: At least a B average in psychology, if a
    psychology major was completed; at least a B average for the M.S., if
    an M.S. in psychology was completed; or at least a B average for the
    last two years of the B.A., if a major in psychology was not completed.

    MEDIAN GRE SCORES FOR ACCEPTED STUDENTS: Verbal/565; Quantitative/635;
    Analytical/645; Psychology/605.

    OTHER CRITERIA:  Besides grades and GRE scores, applicants are
    evaluated in terms of their: letters of recommendation, technical
    writing, and preparation for research.
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    PHILOSOPHY: Behavior Analysis is offered within a general program in
    experimental psychology which emphasizes training in the philosophical
    and scholarly foundations of psychology, and the acquisition of
    research skills through apprenticeship. Behavior analytic students
    complete a major in the area of conditioning and learning, and two
    minors chosen from the areas of: cognition and perception,
    developmental, social, physiological, quantitative, history and
    systems, and psychopathology.
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    SPONSORS, INTERESTS, AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES):

    ALAN BARON, Professor   (ab@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) Ph.D., University of
    Oregon, 1957 Conditioning and Learning; Human Operant Research;
    Behavioral Gerontology

    MARSHALL L. DERMER, Associate Professor  (dermer@convex.csd.uwm.edu)
    Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1973 Social Behavior; Behavior
    Analysis; Verbal Behavior; Research Methods

    JOHN C. MOORE, Associate Professor  (jcm@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) Ph.D.,
    University of California, San Diego, 1975 Learning and Motivation;
    Systems of Psychology

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    CONDITIONING AND LEARNING COURSES:

    502 Applied Behavior Analysis
    514 Conditioning and Learning
    516 The Experimental Analysis of Social Behavior
    551 Learning and Motivation Theories
    565 Methods of Behavior Control
    711 Current Topics in Conditioning and Learning
    790 Masters Research with Behavior Analytic Sponsor
    914 Seminar in Learning
    890 Graduate Research with Behavior Analytic Sponsor
    915 Seminar in Operant Behavior
    919 Seminar in Learning Theory