Developmental Psychology Certificate

The faculties in developmental psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University offer a collaborative approach to graduate training in developmental psychology: the UNC-Duke Collaborative Graduate Certificate Program in Developmental Psychology. Graduate students at Duke in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and students in UNC's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience can apply to this program that offers training opportunities in addition to those of their home department. Students in the certificate program attend developmental talks at both universities and have opportunities to take developmental seminars or engage in supplemental research training with the faculty of their non-home university. Among the research emphases of the participating faculty are cognitive development, social development, applied development, and developmental psychobiology. Students apply to the program by the beginning of their third year of graduate study.

Course Requirements

Non-Course Certificate Requirement

• Each student must participate in a research activity with a developmental faculty member from the non-home university. This requirement may be fulfilled in various ways as deemed appropriate by the faculty member providing the experience (e.g., by enrolling in a formal research practicum course, by collaborating on a research project for no course credit, or by employment as a research assistant).
• Students are expected to attend at least three Program-affiliated developmental events each semester at the non-home institution. These events include talks organized by the Center for Developmental Science and the Center for Child and Family Policy, the Colloquium series at both universities, the brown bag developmental research and current topics groups that meet regularly at both universities, and other Program-affiliated events that may emerge in the future.