MS in Psychology: Industrial Organizational Track Curriculum
Curriculum Details
30 total credit hours required
In the online Master of Science in Psychology: Industrial Organizational track at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM), you will develop skills that are vital to applying psychological principles to the workplace. Through this program, you will learn to conduct research and earn the credentials to seek positions in human resources, talent acquisition, organizational development, and more.
This 10-course master’s program can be completed in 21 months, consists of 16-week terms, and includes courses in personnel selection and talent management, workforce training and development, motivation in the workplace, and a variety of related topics. These courses will prepare you to advance your career in human resources and give you the confidence you need to be a valuable workforce asset.
Curriculum
Credits
A seminar on the general ethical and professional issues facing researchers and practitioners in the field of Industrial and Organizational psychology.
Investigative techniques of research, with special emphasis on principles and practices of research design and methodology. Offered spring term.
An advanced lecture and laboratory course using statistical analysis for complex research designs. Offered spring term.
The purpose of this course is to teach the “psychometric” foundations of psychological assessment. Topics covered include reliability. validity, standardized scores, confidence intervals, and use of base rates and hit rates for decision-making. Offered fall term.
Prerequisite; PSYC 6153
Selected theory and research in socialization process, interpersonal dynamics, conformity and attitude formation and change. Offered every other fall term.
An advanced course on staffing, recruiting, and selecting personnel, including such topics as analyzing jobs and performance, measuring psychological characteristics, legal considerations, and more.
Prerequisite; PSYC 6603
An advanced seminar on the theory and practice of training and development in a workplace setting.
Attention, memory, emotions and higher order cognitive processes, with an emphasis on their biological bases.
This course covers aspects of motivation and science as they generally apply to employees, organizations, leaders and managers, and other stakeholders.
Provides an in-depth focus on issues in industrial-organizational psychology. Basic theoretical positions and empirical findings emphasized.
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