Psychology, Ph.D.

z2020-2021 Graduate Revise Program Request

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  • Welcome to the University of West Georgia's curriculum management system. 

    Please TURN ON the help text before starting this proposal by clicking  next to the print icon directly above this message. 

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    If you have any questions, please email curriculog@westga.edu.


    **CHANGES TO PROGRAMS MUST BE SUBMITTED 9-12 MONTHS IN ADVANCE OF THE DESIRED EFFECTIVE TERM**

  • Modifications (Check all that apply)*
  • If other, please identify.
    Organization of entries and additional items
    Organization of entries and additional items
  • Desired Effective Semester*
    Scroll to the bottom and choose Fall, Spring, or Summer.
    Desired Effective Year*
Program Information
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  • Select Program below, unless revising an Acalog Shared Core.

  • Type of Program*

  • IMPORT curriculum data from the Catalog by clicking icon in the top left corner. To search for courses select the "PREFIX" filter. To search for programs select the "NAME" filter. 

    NOTE: The fields below are imported from the catalog. Edits must be made in these fields in order for the changes to be updated correctly in the catalog. 

    • Program Name
    • Program Description
  • Program Name*
    Psychology, Ph.D.
    Psychology, Ph.D.
  • Program ID - DO NOT EDIT*
    2829
    2829
  • Program Code - DO NOT EDIT
  • Program Type*
  • Degree Type*
  • Program Description*
    The Ph.D. program in Psychology offers an in-depth analysis of the intersection between consciousness and society. This analysis is informed by three foundational theoretical approaches: Humanistic, Transpersonal, and Critical Psychologies. -This foundation provides the reflexive and reflective anchor for our students scholarly trajectory in the development of their own research interests. The humanistic existential tradition provides a phenomenological grounding of consciousness while interrogating relevant research in psychology and other disciplines, from philosophy to the neurosciences. The transpersonal approach extends this analysis to include the spiritual dimensions of psychological life informing mind/body studies, integrative health, and the farther reaches of human existence. The critical traditions examine the historical position of the discipline as well as cultural representations and practices, situating the constitution of consciousness and subjectivity within discursive, social, and institutional contexts. In addition, the program emphasizes rigorous training in qualitative research methodologies, creatively addressing the relationship between theory and praxis through ethically informed and engaged modalities of research.
  • Status*
  • Program Location*
Curriculum Information
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  • PROGRAM CURRICULUM

    **IF NO COURSES OR CORES APPEAR IN THIS SECTION WHEN YOU IMPORT, DO NOT PROCEED. Contact curriculog@westga.edu for further instruction.

    This section allows departments to maintain the curriculum schema for the program which will feed directly to the catalog. Please click here for a video demonstration on how to build your program curriculum.

    Follow these steps to propose courses to the program curriculum. 

    Step 1 - Deleting Courses

    In order to delete courses that you are removing the courses from you program, please follow these steps:

    • First, delete the course from the core it is associated within the curriculum schema tab. For removing courses click on the  and proceed.
    • Next, delete the course from the list of curriculum courses tab. For removing courses click on the  and proceed.

    Step 2 - Adding New Courses

    In order to add courses to your program, you must first add all courses to be included in the program of study through the view curriculum courses tab

    • If this new program proposal includes the UWG undergraduate General Education Curriculum, scroll to the top of this form and click on the  icon to import the "University of West Georgia General Education Requirements."
    • For courses already in the catalog, click on "Import Course" and find the courses needed.
    •  For new courses going through a Curriculog Approval Process click on "Add Course"-- a box will open asking you for the Prefix, Course Number and Course Title.

    NOTE: A New Course Request proposal must also be submitted along with the New Program Proposal if the course is new. 

    Step 3 - Adding Courses to Cores in the Curriculum Schema

    To add courses to the cores (sections of the program of study, e.g., Semester 1, Semester 2, etc.) in the curriculum schema  click on  "View Curriculum Schema."  Select the core that you want to add the course to.  When you click on "Add Courses" it will bring up the list of courses available from Step 2.

  • Prospective Curriculum*
Justification and Assessment
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  • Rationale*
    A. Rationale for re-organizing the structure of the catalog: 1) The structure of the current catalog is not clear enough, repeatedly leading to the same questions from potential as well as from current PhD students; 2) in addition, the language was often times not clear enough, also repeatedly leading to same questions. The aim of both 1-2 is to allow information to be located more easily and effectively. 3) The information provided in the catalog was less than the one provided through the department's website; the aim is thus to render both sites of information coherent and to make the information sustainable through catalog entry. For this reason, most of the additional text here entered is not new information. 4) New policies and procedures were discussed and developed by the PhD committee in AY 2018-19 and it is important to give them a meaningful place within the catalog. One policy is added here, see D. B. Rationale for Adding the Mission Statement of the Program. Given the fact that each of our programs in psychology has a recently crafted mission statement, it seems more than appropriate to add it to the catalog; this follows also practices in other programs. C. Rationale for adding an admission requirement: As PhD program, we want to make sure that our students complete successfully their PhD work by submitting substantial academic work. We framed a scaffold that encourages and helps the students to work early on their dissertation research for enhanced effectiveness and quality of the final written work. The new admission requirement -- writing a potential research project(see template attached as PDF that will be provided per link) -- gives us a new instrument to estimate an applicant's general ability toward academic work as well as it presents our program as attaching importance to high quality academic work. D. Rationale for the policy added under "Financial Aid and Stipends" 1) By this policy, we want to make the agreement and its terms concerning its timing between the Department and the PhD student transparent. 2) We want also to protect our undergraduate students, ourselves as well as UWG from late cancellations and allow these only in specified cases. E. Rationale for Reorganization of "Credit Breakdown" The former text is one paragraph that makes it difficult to locate important information. Our breakdown through numbered elements clarifies and systematizes the information. We added clarifying language in 3 and 4, and gave 6 a new order within the sequence of information. F. Rationale for re-locating the information to the required quantitative/statistics class: it belongs in the same the category as the research method course. Deleted under "Required for teaching assistants"; language clarified to make transparent when credit hours are counted, when not (sentence added).
  • If making changes to the Program Learning Outcomes, please provide the updated SLOs in a numbered list format.

  • SACSCOC Substantive Change

    Please review the Policy Summary and Decision Matrix
    Send questions to cjenks@westga.edu

  • Check all that apply to this program*
  • SACSCOC Comments
    To submit new tracks/concentrations together with a new program, list them here. For instance, "New Tracks/Concentrations: name 1, name 2, name 3....

  • REQUIRED ATTACHMENTS

    ATTACH the the following required documentsl by navigating to the Proposal Toolbox and clicking  in the top right corner.

    1.) Program Map and/or Program Sheet

    For advising purposes, all programs must have a program map. Please download the program map template from here, and upload.

    Make sure to upload the new program sheet that reflects these changes. When uploading both the old and new program for reference, please ensure that you distinctly mark them and upload as one document.

    2.) Assessment Plan

    All major programs must include an assessment plan. Stand-alone minors must have an assessment plan as well.  A stand-alone minor is a minor that can be earned in a program that does not offer an undergraduates degree with a major in that discipline (for example, a student can earn a minor in Africana Studies but cannot complete a bachelor's degree with a major in Africana Studies). Minors in a discipline where a corresponding major is offered, are not required to include an assessment plan.

    Please download the assessment template from here complete, and upload.

  • Program Map*
  • Assessment Plan*
Routing Information
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  • Routes cannot be changed after a proposal is launched. Please be sure all fields are filled out correctly prior to launch. If a routing error is made it can result in the proposal being rejected and a new proposal will be required. 

    Please refer to this document for additional information: UWG Shared Governance Procedures for Modifications to Academic Degrees and Programs.

    If there are any questions or concerns regarding the routing of your proposal please contact curriculog@westga.edu.

  • School/ Department - DO NOT EDIT*
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    Is this a College of Education Program?*
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