AMU/APUS posts IT and Psychology details

See(psychology):

AMU Degree Program: Master of Arts in Psychology

and(IT):

AMU Degree Program: Master of Science in Information Technology

Best wishes----Jim

 

Thanks for posting this information.

 

Those look nice, although I'm not too sure what the benefit of the MA in Psychology would be besides personal enrichment.

 

You'd be surprised what a good grounding in psych is applicable to. The obvious teaching notwithstanding, there's a long history of corporate exploitation of the modelling of human behavior for profit.

Ex: Any video game that bases itself on the constant reinforcement via reward model to keep people subscribing and logged in.. has someone who does human factors and social behavior on the design team.

Ex: Any military project that has anything to do with detection or rangefinding likely has someone on staff that does cognition and human factors.

Essentially, if a project has any way for anyone to interact with it, there's an applied psych application that's being served by someone. The catch is getting into a program that makes that application clear enough that someone can choose to specialize in that application.

 

IT- I think the trick would be having Applied Psych in the title or concentration. As the description of the degree even says generalist, I don't think it would work that way. It looks like exactly what it is, I think- a general Psych degree that provides a little more in-depth knowledge than a B.A. but doesn't qualify for anything. Helpful as a supplement to CJ, HR, Management, etc.

 

I think that more than any other discipline, psychology is taught as a general field and it's up to the student to forge out their specialty based on sampling electives. This is certainly the way my spouse started out and certainly the take that everyone who I know of who are in the fields I stated earlier, started. (If you want to get into cognition, start with illusion, if you want to get into human factors, take some math and engineering electives)

Of course the most successful examples have grounding in other fields that go beyond electives (e.g. the engineering masters with a psych doctoral degree) but my experience states that if you put "applied" on a liberal arts degree in general you pretty much get labeled as a half breed. We're probably approaching the same idea from different personal starting points.

 

Agreed. I would be much less likely to enroll in a program that had the word "applied" in the title, especially a psych program.

BTW, it appears that APU/AMU has unique admissions requirements for the MA in Psychology program.

 

I like those additional requirements. Seems like they're trying to make sure that the degree isn't an entry level program.

I would love it if they developed a MA in Professional Counseling that could lead to becoming a LPC. If they don't by the time I'm done with my M.Div, I'll just do it at Liberty U.

 

Yes, it seems s though APUS is adding additional BA's and MA's to their suitcase. Good for them. If they had a MA in English years ago, I would have done that, but it looks like that will never come for the new students.