The mission of the Prevention Track of the CCNY MA Program in Psychology is to produce highly qualified, culturally-diverse scientist-practitioners equipped with the core concepts and skills necessary to develop, implement, and evaluate community-based prevention programs that aim to increase psychosocial and physical health, particularly of underserved populations. With New York City as a laboratory, a faculty representing clinical, health, social, cognitive, and developmental psychologies, and City College’s long tradition of recruiting ethnically, racially, and culturally diverse students -- many of whom come from underserved, at-risk urban populations -- the CCNY MA Program in Prevention is uniquely poised to recruit and train a cohort of prevention specialists dedicated to promoting the health of their own or other communities. Below is a description of requirements for Masters students who enter the Prevention Track

Credits	Courses
3	Prevention of Psychological Disorders The basic theory course teaching students how to look at psychological disorders from a prevention perspective
3	Psychoeducational and Community Intervention The basic methods course teaching students how to begin to put together a community-based program, work with relevant others (funders, clients etc.), and do basic evaluation
3	Statistics 1 (already on books as V0500)
4	Experimental Psychology OR Research Methods in Epidemiology “Lab” courses designed to teach students the basic research methods needed to understand the work that is published on prevention
3	Practicum (2 semesters) All students would be required to participate in an ongoing prevention program. The program might be one run by our own faculty, including programs on homelessness, immigration, partnerships between Psychologists and Clergy, prevention of violence, prevention of HIV infection, early intervention for language/learning disability, prevention of cancer, prevention of depression among adolescent women.. Placements are also available in prevention and early intervention programs in the community.
3	Methods Modules (3 modules at 1-credit each) A variety of 1-credit courses (probably 2.5 hours per week for 5 weeks) are offered on a rotating basis. These offer training in particular skills that students need. Some modules that have been discussed are Proposal Writing, Consulting in Schools, particular computer skills, Website Design, perhaps writing a Needs Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Techniques of Effective lecturing, Administering tests of language disability
3	Colloquium in Applied Cognition and Prevention (one semester) Students attend a 1.5 hour weekly colloquium with presentations from our own faculty, from other CUNY faculty, and from world experts.
6	Thesis (2 semesters) All students in the Prevention Track do a thesis, signing up for two semesters with an advisor. In addition to a traditional thesis testing a research hypothesis, students may also do an evaluation of an actual prevention program, a grant proposal, or another applied project that assists an ongoing prevention program.

Total credits of required courses = 28

Elective courses
Students take 12 credits of elective courses. At least 6 credits from group A (content courses) and at least 3 credits from group B (Intervention courses) below
Group A (Content Courses)	Health Psychology Positive Psychology Substance Abuse Social Psychology Causes and Prevention of Violence Developmental Psychology 1 Psychopathology Language/Learning Disability Immigration & Acculturation Medical Anthropology Culture, Cognition, and Development of Psychopathology (doctoral, permission of instructor) Program Evaluation Psychopharmacology Family Psychology Language & Thought
Group B (Intervention Courses)	Group Counseling Parenting & Parent Education Counseling Multicultural Counseling