Psychology
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Overview

The Department of Psychology is committed to the concept of lifelong learning, the encouragement of part-time learners, and the celebration of diversity. Our undergraduate programs prepare students for a variety of career paths and parallel our graduate programs with a focus on both the science and the application of psychology. Our clinical graduate program is accredited by both the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association.

Department of Psychology

The Department currently has a complement of 33 full-time faculty members, 1/2 staff psychologist, approximately 108 full-time graduate students, and a support staff that includes five secretaries and one technician. The Department's offices and research areas are located in Chrysler Hall South which was built in 1966. Two of the faculty and one secretary are assigned to the Psychological Services Centre (Director). The Psychological Services Centre occupies two houses near the Department.

Undergraduate

Mission Statement: The mission of our undergraduate programs is to educate our students through challenging and supportive educational experiences that facilitate their understanding of psychology by encouraging critical research skills and application in the classroom and the world beyond.

Our undergraduate program provides a comprehensive education in the discipline of psychology and includes specific courses that reflect the areas of specialization in our graduate program: adult and child clinical psychology, applied social psychology, and neuropsychology. We offer General and Honours B.A. degrees in both Psychology and Developmental Psychology and a BSc Honours in Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN). Students may choose to complete a thesis as part of their Honours degree. Students are encouraged to consider combining psychology with another discipline in a double-major Honours BA. We also offer minors in both psychology and child psychology.

If you are a current student and require academic counselling or have any career-related questions, please contact our academic advisor at 253-3000 (ext. 2216) or at psychology@uwindsor.ca.

Graduate

Mission Statement: The mission of the graduate programs in the Department of Psychology at the University of Windsor is to provide graduate students with a foundation of theory, research, and practice to enable them to conduct research and/or apply psychology in a variety of settings including universities, private practice, schools, health/medical organizations, social service agencies, businesses, and basic/applied research firms.

The Department of Psychology’s PhD program is unique in that all areas of specialization (Applied Social, Clinical Neuropsychology, Adult Clinical and Child Clinical) have an applied focus. Applied training and research resources include the Psychological Services Centre, the Child Study Centre, the Emotion-Cognition Research Laboratory, the Health & Well-being Lab, Health Research Centre for the Study of Violence against Women, the Student Counselling Centre, the Gambling Research Centre and the Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Laboratory among other faculty research facilities. There are faculty-student research groups in the areas of eating disorders, trauma and psychotherapy, problem gambling, feminist research, emotional competence, culture and diversity, health psychology, neuro-psychoanalysis, aging, forgiveness, applied memory, multicultural and counselling research, and autism. The department is affiliated with the Summit Centre for Preschool Children with Autism. Researchers have access to a participant pool and web-based participant recruitment as well as systems that allow for web-based data collection. The university campus has wireless computer access throughout.


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Your support of the Psychology Department would be greatly appreciated.

If you would like to support the Department of Psychology financially you can e-mail our fund development staff at donations@uwindsor.ca. To donate online, please visit www.uwindsor.ca/donations.