Records of the department include correspondence, staff meeting minutes, and miscellaneous information on lectures, undergraduate, and graduate degrees. The collection also contains materials on the teaching of psychology at County Teacher Colleges of Wisconsin, and a file on a survey course given on the WMVS television station. There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. However, the researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection. The files are organized alphabetically by subject, and then chronologically.
Files can contain a variety of materials, including correspondence, staff memos, and reports.
Prior to 1956, the predecessor colleges offered psychology courses. Since its inception in 1885, the Wisconsin State Normal School offered general psychology courses as part of its education curricula. After 1927, when the school became the Milwaukee State Normal School, psychology courses were offered under the Department of Education and Psychology. The Dept. of Psychology at UWM began to offer Graduate level courses in 1961, offered a full Master of Science in Psychology in 1963, and the PhD in Psychology in 1966. Dept. of Psychology.