All students who wish to
pursue graduate studies in psychology will need to meet admissions
prerequisites and program requirements according to their area
of concentration.
Admission
Requirements
Program Prerequisites:
All students who
wish to pursue studies in applied or research psychology must have
completed at least three courses in psychology at the upper division
undergraduate or at the graduate level before their application
can be considered for admission. Prospective students who have
not met this requirement should arrange to take appropriate courses
at local universities before applying to the program or discuss
the possibility of completing an individualized course through
the ILPS Department as a nonmatriculated student. Recommended courses
include abnormal psychology, personality theory, social psychology,
and introduction to counseling methods. At least one of these courses
must be in the area of concentration identified in the educational
goals statement as the student’s focused area of study.
Selection Criteria:
We are interested in both your academic or theoretical background
and your practical or experiential background, and of course we
would hope that they would be interrelated. Academic background
might be gained through undergraduate or graduate course work in
psychology or related fields. We would expect some knowledge of
personality theory, abnormal psychology, and human development.
Readings in popular psychology, while potentially useful, would
not be adequate in themselves.
If you are concerned with the adequacy of your background in the field, you
may want to discuss the matter with our Enrollment Services Officer or with
a faculty member before applying to the ILPS master of arts program. You may
decide to pursue additional course work or gain additional experience in the
field before applying to the program.
We will assess the application in the following manner:
(1) Completion of three
upper-division undergraduate or graduate courses.
(2) Letters of reference and completed reference form from two professionals
in the field, People who serve as reference for you should be able to
address your background and academic readiness for self-directed, graduate
study. Please ask your references to complete the personal reference form
enclosed in the application packet.
(3) Statement of educational goals, which is part of your application
to the program. You should address all the questions listed on the educational
goals sheet in your application packet, being especially careful to give
us a very thorough picture of your background in the field. Discuss the area
of concentration within the field of psychology in which you wish to focus
your program. In addition, you must include an autobiographical sketch to
give us a sense of the course of your life that has led you to desire to
do graduate work in counseling psychology at this time.
(THE ABOVE ITEMS MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE IN ORDER TO COMPLETE
YOUR APPLICATION.)
(4) Personal interview with an Antioch faculty member. In most instances,
a member of the faculty will contact an applicant for a personal or telephone
interview. The interview takes place after the completed application has
been received and reviewed by the admissions committee.
Please note that if you plan to
use courses in this degree to satisfy professional license or certification
requirements, you should research the requirements for that license
or certification with the appropriate board and ensure they can be met
with this degree. Note that as an ILPS student, you will be a registered
student in Ohio.
Curricular
Requirements
All ILPS students take their first
two courses with their advisor: Foundations of Academic
Discourse and Applied Curriculum Design. In addition, students
in applied psychology or research psychology fields are
expected to complete at least one research methods course,
core theories courses, courses in the students’ area
of concentration, and either a thesis (10 credits) or a
capstone project (5 credits).
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