Wisconsin Schools
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Graduate Experience:
Program:
Clinical Psychology
My graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) were obtained at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. In the graduate program, there is a heavy emphasis on evidence-based practice and scientific principles. The program has really evolved in the past 25 years and they have been systematically shaking free all of the non-science-based professors (they're all the old guard and have been aging out). However, the undergraduate may be a different story. I taught (was a teaching assistant, but let's be honest, we're the ones who teach) many undergraduate psych courses. Time and again, (mostly in 101, but creeping up in several other courses), I'd be handed Freud, Kohut, etc, to teach to the students. I would introduce it as "The History of Psychology; similar to a physician learning about leeches or the four humors." I do not think my contemporaries were as avid about this as I was, fearing they would get in trouble if they deviated from the course material.
Overall:
Great for graduate; questionable for undergraduate
Graduate Experience:
Program:
Clinical Psychology
My graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) were obtained at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. In the graduate program, there is a heavy emphasis on evidence-based practice and scientific principles. The program has really evolved in the past 25 years and they have been systematically shaking free all of the non-science-based professors (they're all the old guard and have been aging out). However, the undergraduate may be a different story. I taught (was a teaching assistant, but let's be honest, we're the ones who teach) many undergraduate psych courses. Time and again, (mostly in 101, but creeping up in several other courses), I'd be handed Freud, Kohut, etc, to teach to the students. I would introduce it as "The History of Psychology; similar to a physician learning about leeches or the four humors." I do not think my contemporaries were as avid about this as I was, fearing they would get in trouble if they deviated from the course material.
Overall:
Great for graduate; questionable for undergraduate