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Optional Programs
Accelerated Combined-Degree Programs
Today, an undergraduate degree doesn’t necessarily
guarantee a job in the workforce or provide long-term
career security. However, the Institute of Psychology
offers combined, accelerated undergraduate and graduate
programs that help minimize both concerns. These flexible
programs give students solid professional credentials
in more than one field—improving their marketability
and expanding their career options.
A specialization in psychology may be used as the basis
for the combined undergraduate-graduate professional
degree programs in law (B.S./J.D.), business
(B.S./M.B.A.), public administration (B.S./M.P.A.), rehabilitation
counseling (B.S./M.S.) or personnel and human
resources development (B.S./M.S.) offered by IIT.
Students wishing to participate in the accelerated
B.S./J.D. option must indicate this as early as possible.
Rehabilitation
IIT’s Rehabilitation Counseling Master’s Program prepares
students to assume vital roles as counselors fully
qualified to help in the vocational, educational and personal
adjustment of people with physical, mental and
emotional disabilities.
Since its inception, IIT’s Rehabilitation Counseling
Education Program has been continuously funded by
the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the U.S.
Department of Education to provide rehabilitationcounseling
education. The Council of Rehabilitation
Education has accredited the program since 1975. IIT
rehabilitation graduates are eligible to become nationally
certified rehabilitation counselors and licensed professional
counselors in Illinois.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Rehabilitation
Counseling Program fifth in the nation in 2003 & 2004.
Current Research Projects
Assessment of readiness for change and
treatment matching.
Psychosocial adjustment to disability and chronic illness.
Traumatic brain injury rehabilitation and neuropsychological
assessment.
Disability and health.
Technology applied to human behavior and rehabilitation.
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With the consent of the Institute of Psychology director,
undergraduate psychology students may enroll in some
graduate-level psychology courses. Close communication
with advisers is required for students to reach their target
completion dates for accelerated programs. Students
must also meet the minimum graduate program admission
criteria, apply, and be accepted into the graduate
program they wish to enter.
For undergraduate psychology majors, it is possible to
earn a Masters of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling or
a Masters of Science in Personnel and Human Resources
Development (PHRD) in one-and-a-half years instead of
the normal two years. By taking psychology courses that
apply to the rehabilitation counseling or PHRD program,
graduate program coursework can be reduced by up to
15 credit hours, or one full-time semester.
IIT Undergraduate Bulletin 2006–2008
Institute of Psychology
Rehabilitation Counseling Courses
Students in the accelerated program may take the following
courses as part of required or elective courses for the
B.S. in Psychology. If taken as an undergraduate student,
the courses listed below do not have to be repeated for
the graduate Rehabilitation Counseling program. A
grade of B or better is required for courses to be used
toward a graduate degree.
PSYC 410 Vocational Rehabilitation
PSYC 411 Medical Aspects of Disabling Conditions
PSYC 412 Multicultural and Psychosocial Aspects
of Disability
PSYC 513 Assessment in Rehabilitation Counseling
PSYC 523 Introduction to Theories of Psychotherapy
PSYC 557 Pre-Practicum in Rehabilitation Counseling
PSYC 562 Job Placement
PSYC 563 Human Growth and Career Development
PSYC 583 Rehabilitation Engineering Technology I
PSYC 590 Introduction to Psychiatric Rehabilitation
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