Jul 01, 2025  
2024-2025 Student Handbook 
    
2024-2025 Student Handbook

Required and Elective Courses (MSSP)


Required and Elective Courses  

The required foundation and clinical courses, together with the elective courses and all practices available through the program, are presented below. The program curriculum is designed to be completed in three years by regular students. Students entering with a bachelor’s degree complete the core curriculum in three years. Our curriculum includes all competencies for the training of school psychologists proposed by the National Council of Schools and Programs in Professional Psychology and is updated periodically according to the Model for Comprehensive and Integrated School Psychological Services (the NASP Practice Model). 

 

Required Foundation Courses 

SCP 5150       Lifespan Human Development (3)  

SCP 5220       Psychology of Personality and Individual Difference (3) 

SCP 5320       Social Bases of Behavior and Diversity (3) 

SCP 5730       Professional Behavior and Ethics (2) 

SCP 6230       Research Methods and Statistics (3)   

SCP 6250       Test and Measurement (2) 

Total Credits: 16 

 

Required Core Clinical and Professional Courses 

NPS 5110      Biological Base of Behavior: Neuroscience (3) 

SCP 6500      Psychological Disorders in Children & Adolescents (2) 

SCP 6520      Intellectual Assessment (3) 

SCP 6590      Social-emotional Assessment Techniques (3) 

SCP 6600      Behavior Modification: Theory & Practice (2) 

SCP 7180      Psychopharmacology for School Psychologists (2) 

SCP 7300      Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention (3) 

SCP 7680      Family Integration in School Setting (2) 

SCP 7690      Group Therapy in School Settings (2) 

SCP 5710      Socio-emotional Intervention Models (2) 

SCP 6130      Consultation and Collaboration in School Settings (2) 

SCP 5420      Crisis and Trauma Intervention in Educational Settings (2)  

IDH 9190      Interprofessional Perspective in Health Disparities (1) 

Total Credits: 31

 

Required Courses for Neuropsychology Sub-specialization. 

The following track are designed to give students broad exposure to specific areas of interest beyond the required program’s courses. The idea is that students can carry out a subspecialty in areas related neuropsychology that allow them to delve into the biological aspects that can impact learning and their socio-emotional development. These tracks are compulsory.  

 

NSL 0611 Design and Administration of Neuroscience-Based Learning Environments (2) 

NPS 5241 Neurocognitive Approaches to the Study of Cognition and Emotion (2) 

NPS 8510 Neuropsychological Assessment (3) 

NSL 0612 Neurodevelopmental Alterations: Learning and Behavioral Manifestations (3) 

Total Credits: 10 

 

Elective Courses   

NSL 0502 Sensory and Sensory-Motor Development: Implications for Assessment and Teaching (2) 

NSL 0601 Brain-Based Learning (2)   

SCP 8650      Autism Spectrum Disorders (2) 

SCP 8390      Child Maltreatment and Sexual Abuse (2)  

SCP 5410      General Principles of Psychopathology (2) 

 

Required Practice 

SCP 5800   School Psychology Practice I (1) 

SCP 5900   School Psychology Practice II (1) 

SCP 6000   School Psychology Practice III (1) 

SCP 6010   School Psychology Clinical Practice IV (1) 

SCP 7000 School Psychology Internship I (600 hrs.) (0) 

SCP 7001 School Psychology Internship II (600 hrs.) (0)