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Degree Requirements

A minimum of 76 credit hours of course and practica work and 12 hours of dissertation work (PSYC 899) are required beyond the baccalaureate degree. Course work includes 19 hours of core psychology courses plus 8 hours of research courses, 20 hours of specialty content courses, 20 hours of specialty practica within the program area, and 9 hours of electives.*

The Ph.D. degree in clinical-community psychology also requires successful completion of qualifying requirements, a general comprehensive examination (comprehensive paper), a specialty comprehensive examination (either in clinical or community), an oral comprehensive examination, and a predoctoral research apprenticeship.

Also required are an approved Ph.D. dissertation, and a one-year, predoctoral, full-time internship. Most students obtain an APA-approved (or approval-seeking) internship.

The sequence of events and more details concerning specific aspects (including the required concurrent master’s degree) are in the current Clinical-Community Psychology Doctoral Program Graduate Student Handbook, provided to all incoming students.

*Pending S.C. Commission on Higher Education approval.