Minor in Quantitative Psychology

Overview

Psychology students who wish to obtain certification of their interest and expertise in either mathematical psychology or quantitative methods for psychological research may establish a Minor in Quantitative Psychology. When requirements outlined below are met, the completion of the minor will be recorded on the student's official records and can be included on the student's resume/vitae.

Students interested in the minor must apply before their fifth semester in the Ph.D. program. Applications can be obtained from a psychology faculty member associated with the quantitative minor program who agrees to serve as the student's quantitative mentor. A list of faculty who can serve as quantitative mentors can be found here. Students admitted to the minor program will usually have received an A or an A- in the quantitative courses required for the students' Ph.D. program. Applications will be approved or disapproved at biannual meetings of the quantitative faculty. Certification that requirements have been met will also be confirmed at these meetings

Requirements for Minor in Quantitative Psychology

1. Successful completion of a total of six quantitative courses. These may be chosen from courses offered by the Department of Psychology that have substantial quantitative content, such as:

• Intermediate Statistics (G89.2228)
• Regression (G89.2229)
• Simulation and data analysis (G89.2233)
• Linear systems (G89.2236)
• ANOVA (G89.2239)
• Psychometric theory (G89.2243)
• Multivariate statistics (G89.2244)
• Structural equation methods (G89.2247)
• Analysis of change (G89.2248)
• Math tools for cognitive science and neuroscience (G89.3404)

With the approval of the quantitative mentor, courses may also be chosen from those offered by the Department of Statistics and Operations Research in the Stern School of Business, the Mathematics Department, the Economics Department, the Computer Science Department or from other departments offering statistical or mathematical graduate courses.

Successful completion of these courses normally means that the student achieves a grade of at least B+.

2. Experience in teaching quantitative psychology, either as a teaching assistant of a graduate quantitative course, or as an instructor of a college level course on quantitative methods, or through equivalent experience. The student's quantitative mentor must certify that the student satisfactorily prepared and presented lab sessions or course lectures.

3. Demonstration of ability to communicate advanced quantitative material. The student must give an oral presentation involving advanced quantitative material in one of the Department's workshop or seminar series, and the student must submit a written report that demonstrates competence in writing about quantitative psychology. This report might be a senior-authored empirical research paper that requires sophisticated quantitative methods, or it might be a review of quantitative models or methods.

The course catalog and schedule are online.

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