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Graduate Program Requirements

The basic graduate program for either Ph.D. consists of:

  • Relevant coursework in the areas of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, social/health psychology to provide breadth in the areas of psychology best represented by our program.
  • Training in basic and advanced statistical and computational skills.
  • Teaching assistantships to provide trainees with mentored experiences in university-level instruction.
  • Professional development seminars to build professional skills and enable individualized pathway planning.
  • Training in the responsible conduct of research and reporting to train ethically responsible scientists who produce rigorous and reliable research.

Graduate Student Handbook

Overview of the Requirements by Year

  • The student takes an orientation course during the first week of the semester, proseminar, and a statistics or methods course.
  • The student chooses an advisor and committee.
  • A first-year research project is designed, conducted, and the results are written up as a research paper and presented in a spring brown bag to the department.
  • A second-year research project is designed, conducted, written up as a research paper, and presented in a spring brown bag to the department.
  • Coursework continues, typically 2 courses per semester. If proseminar is not offered in Year 1, it is taken in Year 2. Students also complete a statistics or methods course.
  • Students also takes the teaching practicum class, which typically involves acting as a TA for a class. Students must take this class three times during their residency in the program.
  • Research continues. Coursework continues, as agreed upon by student and committee.
  • A literature review paper is proposed and completed by September 15. The student continues the teaching practicum class.
  • The dissertation topic is selected and presented formally to the student’s committee in an oral and written format.
  • The dissertation research is conducted, completed, and defended.
  • Reading and research activity is expected in the summer.
  • Students are required to attend department colloquia and professional development.
  • Foundations requirement satisfied by one of:
    • 865-765: Foundations of Neural Basis of CognitionCognitive Neuroscience (emphasizes neural circuits/animal/systems.  
    • 85-770: Foundations and Frontiers in Brain Behavior (emphasizes human cognitive neuroscience)
  • Neurophysiology requirement satisfied by one of:
    • 03-762, Advanced Cellular Neuroscience 
    • BIOENG 2585, Quantitative Cellular Neuroscience
    • NROSCI/MSNBIO 2100/2101, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
  • Systems Neuroscience requirement satisfied by either of the following courses:
    • 03-763: Systems Neuroscience
    • NROSCI 2102/2103: Systems Neurobiology
    • BIOENG 1586, Quantitative Systems Neuroscience (PITT, Spring Semesters)
  • Computational Neuroscience requirement satisfied by one of the following: 
    • 15-883, Computational Models of Neural Systems 
    • 85-719, Introduction to Parallel Distributed Processing
    • 10-733, Representation and Generation in Neuroscience and AI 
    • NROSCI 2146, Introduction to Computational Neuroscience 
    • MATH 3370, Mathematical Neuroscience 
    • **42-632/18-698, Neural Signal Processing 
    • 86-718, Brain Computation 
    • 86-675, Computational Perception
    • **42-631, Neural Data Analysis