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that can be put to use in the evaluation of a wide
range of social service, public health, community
development, and environmental programs. In
addition to a bachelor’s degree, applicants are
expected to have three to five years of professional
experience in a particular field. (See Program
Evaluation in this bulletin for description.)
This certificate requires four courses (format
code: UEP = Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning; CD = Child Development, PSY =
Psychology; NUTR = Nutrition; SOC = Sociology;
OTS: Occupational Therapy; ED = Education;
MPH = Public Health). Courses in statistics, data
analysis, and research methods are offered by
several departments. Course substitutions can be
made with the approval of the certificate faculty
advisor.
1. Foundation course: Program Evaluation
(UEP 256) (also CD 247)
2. One course in applied statistics and data
analysis, for example:
• Problems of Research: Statistics (CD 140)
• Advanced Statistics (PSY 107/108)
• Principles of Biostatistics (MPH 205)
• Statistical Methods for Nutrition Research
(NUTR 209)
• Nutrition Data Analysis (NUTR 211)
• Quantitative Research Methods (SOC 101)
• Quantitative Reasoning for Policy and
Planning (UEP 254)
3. One course in research methods, for example:
• Problems of Research: Methods and Design
(CD 142)
• Principles of Epidemiology (MPH 201)
• Methods of Educational Research (ED 271)
• Survey Research in Nutrition (NUTR 210)
• Field Research (SOC 105)
• Research Methods (OTS 210)
4. One elective in your area of interest or expertise:
education, child development, nonprofit
management, social or environmental policy,
nutrition, or public health.
For more detailed information, please visit the
website http://ase.tufts.edu/uep/.
Psychology
Professor Lisa M. Shin, Chair; clinical neuroscience
Professor Richard A. Chechile, mathematical psychology,
memory
Professor Robert G. Cook, animal cognition and learning
Professor Joseph F. DeBold, endocrinology and behavior
Professor David W. Harder, clinical psychology, personality
assessment
Professor Phillip J. Holcomb, cognitive neuroscience,
language
Professor Robin A. Kanarek, Dean ad interim of Gerald J.
and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and
Policy; John Wade Professor; physiological psychology and
nutrition
Professor Gina R. Kuperberg, cognitive neuroscience,
language (semantics), neuropsychiatry
Professor Klaus A. Miczek, Moses Hunt Professor of
Psychology; psychopharmacology
Professor Holly A. Taylor, Director of Graduate Program;
spatial cognition, language, memory
Associate Professor Keith B. Maddox, Interim Chair; social
cognition
Associate Professor Aniruddh Patel, music cognition
Associate Professor Samuel R. Sommers, Director of
Undergraduate Program; social perception and judgment
Associate Professor Ayanna K. Thomas, memory and
aging
Associate Professor Heather L. Urry, affective neuroscience
Assistant Professor Ariel M. Goldberg, linguistics and
psychology of language
Assistant Professor Jessica D. Remedios, social cognition
Senior Lecturer Sinaia B. Nathanson, Associate Dean of
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; conflict resolution and
leadership
Research Professor Ray Nickerson, cognition and human
factors
Research Assistant Professor Tad Brunye, applied
cognition
Research Assistant Professor Katherine Midgley,
psychology of bilingualism
SECONDARY APPOINTMENTS:
Professor Joanne Berger-Sweeney, Biology; neurobiology
Professor Ray Jackendoff, Philosophy; linguistics and
psychology of language
Professor Linda Tickle-Degnen, Occupational Therapy;
social functioning and wellness
Associate Professor Matthias Scheutz, Computer Science;
artificial intelligence, robotics, cognitive science
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