Rutgers GSAPP New Brunswick
Practicum and Courses

Community Psychology Practicum:

One semester, one day per week. Subject to approval of CPC Practicum Subcommittee based on brief student proposal of community relevance of the practicum.

Courses Required:

  1. Program Planning & Evaluation: two semesters

  2. Core courses currently required for all GSAPP students that have a community focus:
    • Community Psychology
    • Psychological Interventions Ethnic & Racial Minority Clients and Families; or, Diversity and Racial Identity
    • Theoretical Foundations of Intervention: Organizational

  3. Choice of one of the following:
    • Crisis Intervention
    • Adult Learning & Training
    • Innovation Implementation and School Change
    • Family Therapy
    • Consultation Methods
    • Qualitative Research Methods
    • Severe Mental Illness
    • Course from another Rutgers unit such as Public Health or PH.D. Psychology (Strength-Based Consultation to Religious, Public Education, and Private Education Settings: A Community Psychology Approach) approved by CPC faculty.


Encouraged:

A Community Psychology Dissertation approved by CPC subcommittee based on brief student proposal of community relevance. Committee must include one of the listed Community Psychology faculty.