gmcfly
August 18, 2011, 2:39pm
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<p>How's the psych department here? I'm looking to apply but I'm not sure how the program is.. anyone know?</p>
<p>This is what I found from the Rutgers’ psychology department website. Although I am not a psychology major, I can say that Rutgers’ psychology department seems pretty good. I can at least say that they offer a wide breath of courses and concentration areas:</p>
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"We have over 40 full-time faculty members in the Psychology Department, and a larger group of graduate faculty from outside of our Department who contribute to our graduate programs. We provide graduate training in four major areas — behavioral neuroscience; clinical psychology; cognitive psychology; and social psychology. We also have an intradisciplinary program in health psychology. Our Department has close ties to the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science; the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research; the Center of Alcohol Studies; and the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. The Department participates in the Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Perceptual Science funded by an IGERT grant from NSF. Research grants held by Psychology faculty average nearly $6.0 million per year.</p>
<p>In addition to its research, the Psychology Department has a strong undergraduate teaching program, with both the most majors (approximately 1,200) and the most minors (approximately 1,600) of departments in the School of Arts and Sciences (SAS). Enrollment in undergraduate psychology courses exceeds 20,000 per year. The Department typically teaches about 130 lecture courses (including several advanced topics and honors courses), 50 laboratory sections, and 10 internship/fieldwork courses each year. Approximately 300 undergraduates per year conduct independent and honors research with the faculty. The Psychology Department attracts more applications to the graduate program than any other SAS department in the University (well over 400 each year). "
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