Graduate Program in General/Experimental Psychology

The Department of Psychology at the University of North Dakota offers an undergraduate minor and major in psychology and graduate programs leading to degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Located within UND's College of Arts and Sciences, the Department meets a demanding undergraduate teaching mission as well as providing scholarly and professional graduate training and maintaining active research programs. In addition to its core faculty of 16, the Department also utilizes the expertise of area professionals who serve as clinical and adjunct faculty. Enrollment in graduate programs is limited to maintain a favorable student-faculty ratio. The Department offers doctoral programs in Clinical(APA-approved) and General/Experimental Psychology.

The Department and its training programs are characterized by several common assumptions about the nature of graduate training. Each student is expected to develop general skills in the scientific method early in the program. By exposing students to a broad spectrum of psychological issues, an attempt is made to establish a firm theoretical and scholarly foundation which can support subsequent specialty training. Students are expected to develop the experimental and quantitative skills necessary to read the literature and conduct research, and the creative flexibility to generate new hypotheses and novel approaches to new and old questions.

Presently, there are 8 full-time faculty in the General/Experimental Psychology program. For additional information about any aspect of our program, please contact one of the program faculty members.

The experimental group has identified three areas of emphasis:

• applied cognition
• social psychology and the law
• experimental analysis of behavior

Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Post Office Box 8380, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8380

Director of Experimental Program: Ric Ferraro, Ph.D.

Telephone: (701) 777-2414
Facsimile: (701) 777-3454