All materials for application must be received by the department and application to the University must be made by March 1 for consideration for the following Fall semester. The developmental training program is designed to train graduate students to become researchers, university and college teachers in the field of developmental psychology. Cognition, perception, learning, emotion, infancy, socialization, personality and social development, and language development are represented in depth in proseminars and graduate seminars. Program courses are designed to help students grow in their sensitively to sociocultural factors that must be considered when designing an equitable and socially just curriculum to meet the educational needs of children from many backgrounds. One Shields Ave.
Developmental psychology is represented in all three areas.
The training program involves a strong commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship and an emphasis on knowledge and theory, research competencies, and professional skills. The doctoral program in Human Development focuses on the development of individuals across the life course and the effects of the social, physical, and cultural contexts in which development takes place. Graduate courses introduce students to developmental theories, concepts, and empirical research at all phases of the life course. The graduate program in Developmental and Evolutionary Psychology crosses traditional disciplinary lines. The research foci of the developmental faculty encompass primarily, but are not restricted to, issues such as human circadian rhythmicity and social development, psychophysiology and self-regulation, and media effects.