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For Immediate Release
Minato-ku, Tokyo, September 17, 2002—Temple University, Japan Campus
(TUJ) is pleased to introduce an exciting addition to its Undergraduate
Program: a major in psychological studies. TUJ’s new psychological
studies major will be offered for the first time in the spring semester
starting January 2003.
A major in psychological studies from TUJ is viewed as a big plus
for applicants to graduate programs and to entry-level positions
in personnel management and in the counseling field in Japan. This
new undergraduate major from TUJ also is seen as an excellent means
of preparing students to meet or exceed the imminent changes to the
Japanese government’s licensing requirements for psychology-related
professions.
As with other TUJ courses, TUJ’s new major is an offshoot
of studies offered at the Temple University main campus in Philadelphia.
The Psychology Department of the College of Liberal Arts at the main
campus is recognized as one of the best in the United States and
boasts an international reputation for excellence in research. Its
accumulated and innovative resources form the basis for the new psychological
studies major at TUJ.
The new major requires one general methods course and a choice of
two applied courses and emphasizes cross-cultural understanding and
the history of special issues in psychology in Japan. It also includes
a significant training and practicum component viewed from the Japanese
perspective as essential, academically and experientially. Students
will gain hands-on experience in counseling and have an opportunity
to work one-on-one with a professor in the field.
TUJ’s psychological studies major spans a variety of courses.
They include psychology as a social science, psychology as a natural
science, cognition-memory, language and thought, developmental psychology,
social psychology, psychopathology, theories of personality, systems
of psychotherapy, a practicum, topics in psychology, and statistical
methods and concepts, among others.
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