The Neuropsychology Subprogram of the City University of New York Doctoral Program in Psychology, located at Queens College

Curriculum

The Clinical Neuropsychology Program consists of 82 credits and admits only full-time students. The program is designed to be completed in six to seven years (including the internship year), although students who enter with a master’s degree may be able to complete all of the requirements in five years, with credit given for comparable didactic coursework (upper limit of 30 transfer credits). See the handbook for information about transfer credits. The expected order and timing of coursework, related academic requirements (e.g., doctoral exams, dissertation) and training experiences is detailed below. The course number is followed by the course title and number of credits.

Note that this is a sample sequence: required courses and electives or seminars listed in the table below for Years 3 and 4 may be taken in a different order.

Year in
Program
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Year 1 70500 Statistics I (3)
70801 Neuroanatomy (3)
70802 Neurophysiology (3)
76000 Psychometric Methods (3)
Choose research mentor/join lab
70310 Research Design (3)
70803 Psychopharmacology (3)
71000 Physiological Psychology I (3)
76600 Psychodiagnostics I (3)
Research
Year 2 71100 Physiological Psychology II (3)
75500 Psychopathology I (3)
76700 Psychodiagnostics II (4)
81700 Survey of Clinical Neuropsychology (3)
Complete Part 1: 1st Doctoral Exam
Research
76100 Neuropsychological Assessment (4)
77100 Ethics/Professional Issues (3)
87800 Systems of Psychotherapy (3)
80200 Independent Research/2nd Yr Project (3)
Complete Part 2: 1st Doctoral Exam
Research
Year 3 70000 History of Psychology (3)
74000 Personality (3)
Seminar or Elective (3)
70341 Externship I (Summer;3)
70342 Externship II (Fall;3)
Research
70343 Externship III (Spring; 3)
70600 Statistics II (3)
74600 Social Psychology (3)
Seminar or Elective (3)
Research
Year 4 72001 Lifespan/Developmental Psychology (3)
Seminar or Elective (3)
Externship
Dissertation Topic Proposal
Complete Second Doctoral Exam
Externship
Dissertation Research
Year 5 Externship (recommended)
Dissertation Research
Internship Application
Externship (recommended)
Dissertation Defense (recommended)
Year 6 Internship (12 months) Dissertation Defense (if necessary)
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