Social Psychology, Ph.D

This is an interdisciplinary program administered by a social psychology committee. Students interested in this program must have a minimum of 18 credits in either sociology or psychology.

Students must meet all the requirements for admission to graduate school and the general requirements for obtaining a doctoral degree at the university. A full year in teaching or research is also required, which students may satisfy by spending a suitable amount of time in teaching or research concurrently with graduate study.

The Ph.D. degree requires 72 credits beyond the B.A. degree. Of these credits 1 credit will be comprehensive examination and may be used to satisfy the 30 credits of required 700-level course work.

For additional information about this program, contact the director of the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in social psychology, 300 Mack Social Science, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557. Contact the director by phone at (775) 784-1878 or see the program web site: http://www.unr.edu/cla/socpsy