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Students must satisfy all program requirements for the Ph.D. in Psychology. The Ph.D. thesis must be on a topic relating to language acquisition.
A thesis for the doctoral degree must constitute original scholarship and must be a distinct contribution to knowledge. It must show familiarity with previous work in the field and must demonstrate ability to plan and carry out research, organize results, and defend the approach and conclusions in a scholarly manner. The research presented must meet current standards of the discipline; as well, the thesis must clearly demonstrate how the research advances knowledge in the field. Finally, the thesis must be written in compliance with norms for academic and scholarly expression and for publication in the public domain.
Linguistics : Examination and discussion of the leterature on a selected topic in language acquisition.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Clayards, Meghan (Winter)
Psychology : An examination that must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Summer 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in language acquisition issues.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Communication Sci & Disorders : An examination that must be passed by all doctoral candidates in order to continue in the doctoral program.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Nadig, Aparna (Fall)
15-32 credits
12 credits (one course per term in Year 2 and Year 3) chosen from the following list:
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Hardt, Oliver (Winter)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in personality and social psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Bartz, Jennifer (Winter)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in comparative and physiological psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Clinical psychology as a profession, with particular emphasis on ethical issues.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.
Psychology : Issues related to psychological measurement and assessment.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.
Psychology : Techniques used in the study of biological aspects of clinical disorders, including methods in epidemiology, course and outcome, behavioural and molecular genetics, neuroimaging, psychophysiology and psychopharmacology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Restriction: Permission of instructor.
Psychology : Review of clinical psychology.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Students must register for both PSYC 732D1 and PSYC 732D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 732D1 and PSYC 732D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
PSYC 732D1 and PSYC 732D2 together are equivalent to PSYC 732
Psychology : Review of clinical psychology.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Prerequisite: PSYC 732D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 732D1 and PSYC 732D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
PSYC 732D1 and PSYC 732D2 together are equivalent to PSYC 732
Psychology : Review of clinical psychology.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Students must register for both PSYC 733D1 and PSYC 733D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 733D1 and PSYC 733D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
PSYC 733D1 and PSYC 733D2 together are equivalent to PSYC 733
Psychology : Review of clinical psychology.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Prerequisite: PSYC 733D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 733D1 and PSYC 733D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
PSYC 733D1 and PSYC 733D2 together are equivalent to PSYC 733
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in developmental psychology and language
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in developmental psychology and language.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in developmental psychology and language
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Titone, Debra Ann (Fall)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Palmer, Caroline (Fall)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Otto, Ross (Fall)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in perception and cognition.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Harnad, Stevan (Fall)
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in quantitative and individual difference.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in quantitative and individual difference.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in quantitative and individual difference.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in quantitative and individual difference.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Miocevic, Milica (Winter)
Psychology : Bayesian statistics, emphasizing applications to commonly encountered models in the social sciences (regression analysis, mediation and moderation, and latent variable models). Focus will be on differences between classical and Bayesian statistics, Bayesian analyses for several commonly used models in psychology, reporting results of a Bayesian analysis, and critical evaluation of methods and results sections of papers in psychology journals that used Bayesian analysis.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : A practice-oriented course. Staff and students discuss current cases being treated with a variety of psychotherapeutic and behavioural change techniques.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Fuks, Nate (Fall)
Students must register for both PSYC 752D1 and PSYC 752D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 752D1 and PSYC 752D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Psychology : See PSYC 752D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Fuks, Nate (Winter)
Prerequisite: PSYC 752D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 752D1 and PSYC 752D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in health psychology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
At least 3 credits selected from the following list:
Education in Second Languages : An examination of social identity, non-dominant languages, and power relations among speakers, and their impact on the nature of second/additional language teaching, learning and use, from the perspective of critical applied linguistics. Topics range from the micro level of the individual to the macro level of language planning and policy-making.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Sarkar, Mela (Winter)
Education in Second Languages : Seminar in second language acquisition theory and research and their relevance to teaching a second language.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Galante, Angelica (Fall)
Fall
Education in Second Languages : Seminar in the social, cultural and political dimensions of English second language learning and teaching.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Fall
Education in Second Languages : Seminar in second language classroom-centred research focusing on instructional procedures and practices in relationship to learning outcomes.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Ballinger, Susan Gail (Fall)
Education in Second Languages : Theory and research related to the teaching and learning of second language literacy. The orientation is on reading and writing as a socio-cognitive activity.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Mueller, Caroline (Fall)
Fall
Linguistics : An examination of theoretically informed work on the first language acquisition of phonology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Linguistics : Interlanguage grammars and the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Winter
Prerequisite: LING 671 or permission of instructor.
Linguistics : An advanced seminar on current experimental research in linguistics. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Linguistics : An advanced seminar on current experimental research in linguistics. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Psychology : Psychological mechanisms and theories of first language acquisition in infancy and early childhood. Topics such as: infant speech perception, acquisition of grammar, word learning, pidgin and Creole languages, critical and sensitive periods, genetic and evolutionary bases of language.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Onishi, K (Winter)
Fall
Psychology : Advanced area seminar on a topic in developmental psychology and language.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Communication Sci & Disorders : Theories and research related to normal and abnormal phonological development in children will be studied.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Rvachew, Susan; MacGrath, Laura (Fall)
Communication Sci & Disorders : The nature of phonological disorders and clinical approaches for their remediation in children will be presented.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: MacGrath, Laura (Winter)
Communication Sci & Disorders : The nature of developmental language disorders and the assessment of language competence and performance in both speaking and non-speaking children will be studied.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Knecht, Stacey; Rioux, Eve (Fall)
Communication Sci & Disorders : Major theories of language disorders are translated into intervention principles used in language treatment programs. Adaptations of intervention techniques to suit specific disorders (including augmentative communication) will be explored.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Thordardottir, Elin; Ovadia, Amanda (Winter)
Communication Sci & Disorders : Pro seminar in which current research topics in communication disorders will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Instructors: Nadig, Aparna; Guesgen, Mirjam (Fall)
This course may be taken as an advanced course for M.Sc. students.
Communication Sci & Disorders : Pro seminar in which current research topics in communication disorders will be discussed.
Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Instructors: Nadig, Aparna; Guesgen, Mirjam (Fall)
This course may be taken as an advanced course for M.Sc. students.
Communication Sci & Disorders : Current research topics in communication sciences and disorders.
Terms: Fall 2023, Winter 2024
Instructors: Nadig, Aparna; Guesgen, Mirjam (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
0-2 from the following:
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Seminar on language science controversies and their associating literature, and practical implications in education and learning in general.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Education in Second Languages : Review of language acquisition issues.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year.
0-3 credits of statistics from the following list:
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : Concepts and procedures of conducting basic descriptive and inferential statistics, including analysis of variance, correlation, and regression models. Provides experience with data-analysis tools.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Robinson, Kristy (Fall)
Ed Psych & Couns (Psychology) : General linear model as a unified data analytic system for estimation and hypothesis testing that subsumes regression, analysis of variance, and analysis of covariance for single dependent variables. Introduction to generalizations involving multiple dependent (criterion) variables. Applications oriented toward education, educational psychology and counselling psychology. Experience with data-analysis tools.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Cutumisu, Maria (Winter)
Prerequisite: EDPE 676
Linguistics : Introduction to experimental research methods for linguists.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Sonderegger, Morgan (Fall)
Prerequisite: PSYC 305 or equivalent
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Miocevic, Milica (Fall)
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in multivariate techniques.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Hwang, Heungsun (Winter)
Students who have taken an equivalent course in statistics will be deemed to have satisfied this requirement for the Language Acquisition Option.
These 3 credits are only required for students who have not previously taken an equivalent course in statistics.
0-12 credits from the following (students without a Æ»¹ûÒùÔº master's degree need to take all 12 credits):
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in experimental design.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Miocevic, Milica (Fall)
Psychology : A course in advanced statistics with specialization in multivariate techniques.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Hwang, Heungsun (Winter)
Psychology : Professors representing the various research areas within the Department discuss critical issues and developments within their fields of expertise.
Terms: Fall 2023
Instructors: Ditto, Blaine (Fall)
Students must register for both PSYC 660D1 and PSYC 660D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 660D1 and PSYC 660D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Psychology : See PSYC 660D1 for course description.
Terms: Winter 2024
Instructors: Ditto, Blaine (Winter)
Prerequisite: PSYC 660D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both PSYC 660D1 and PSYC 660D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
Note: The Department of Psychology does not ordinarily require an examination in a foreign language however, all students planning on practicing clinical psychology in the province of Quebec will be examined based on their proficiency in French before being admitted to the professional association.