| Overview
The CILS PhD program in Developmental Psychology reflects
the UCSC faculty’s research priority on inclusion and
learning in communities often underserved by schools. Faculty
share the view that it is essential to understand the variation
that occurs across cultural communities in order to improve
K-12 science and math education. Attention to the learning
approaches of underserved minorities is especially crucial,
now that 70% of the 100 largest U.S. school districts are
composed of students from African-American, Latino, and Native
American backgrounds. Many of these students are not well
served by the usual formats of schooling, and this is especially
true of the usual approaches to instruction in science and
mathematics.
The CILS Developmental Psychology program has encouraged graduate
students to focus on processes of learning, especially science
learning in diverse settings. The emphasis of CILS work is
consistent with the departmental faculty's previous work,
and also has helped to consolidate this direction and to focus
student and postdoc interest and expertise more explicitly
along these lines.
Supervision/Advising of Graduate
Students
Key faculty engaged in the UCSC Developmental Psychology program
include Maureen Callanan and Barbara Rogoff.
CILS faculty from the Developmental Psychology department
work closely with CILS faculty from the Education department
to design, lead, and co-supervise CILS courses and students.
CILS faculty in the Developmental Psychology department are
especially interested in cultural variation in discourse practices
and participation structures that organize the ways that children
and their peers, parents, and teachers interact. The research
in developmental psychology examines forms of interaction
that organize children's participation in schools, families,
museums, and in community-based shared endeavors in several
cultural communities.
Required Courses
CILS Psychology PhD students take a required set of core courses,
and work with faculty mentors on research of mutual interest
to the professor and the student, as well as to local museums
and schools. CILS students participate in a monthly doctoral
seminar for all UC CILS graduate students as well as monthly
video-seminars with faculty and students from King’s
College London and the Exploratorium. In addition to the weekly
meetings with their main advisor’s group, CILS students
are also invited to attend the lab groups of other CILS faculty.
As a result lab groups often are a mix of education, psychology
and natural science students in addition to the graduate students
of that specific faculty member. More information on the core
psychology PhD program is available at www.psych.ucsc.edu.
Core Department Ph.D. Requirements
for all students
Statistics
All first-year students, regardless of area, must take two
courses in statistics: Psychology 204, Quantitative Data Analysis
(fall quarter), and Psychology 214A, Multivariate Techniques
(winter quarter).
Proseminar
Students must also in their first year take the two-quarter
proseminar sequence for their particular research area in
the fall and winter quarters: Psych 244A (download
PDF file>> ) and 244B.
Developmental course requirements
- Psych 225A: Introduction to Developmental Research I
- Psych 225B: Introduction to Developmental Research II
- Psych 246: Diversity: Issues in Human Development download
PDF file>>
- One advanced Developmental graduate seminar courses
- A graduate course in Cognitive Psychology
- A graduate course in Social Psychology
A substantive advanced course in a discipline other than Psychology
Samples of Course Syllabi
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