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The Department of Psychological Sciences represents the combined strengths of the fields of psychology and communication sciences. We offer two undergraduate majors: Psychology and Communication Sciences, as well as two minors: Psychology and Communication for Health Professionals. Students can tailor their experience to meet their own career and educational goals. This can be accomplished in many ways, including through independent studies and experiential learning opportunities with faculty, honors Capstone projects, and Pathways. Pathways provides student with guidance to structure coursework based on their specific career interests. Pathways include Clinical, Lifespan Development, Pre-Health, Neuroscience, and Research. Students may choose several Pathways that meet their needs.
We also provide graduate programs, including a masters in Communication Sciences, and three Ph.D. programs: Communication Sciences, Clinical Psychology, and Developmental, Cognitive, and Affective Sciences (DCAS). Our Ph.D. students conduct cutting edge research, learn effective and engaging pedagogical skills, and those in Clinical Psychology and Communication Sciences programs learn to provide empirically supported treatments in a variety of settings.
DEPARTMENT NEWS & UPDATES
Happy Retirement, Dr. Betsy Short!
Elizabeth Short: Remembering Her Youth, Reflecting on Her Career, and Retiring With a Bang Set to retire in August 2026, Short shares her wisdom by discussing her childhood and career as a faculty member at CWRU and a developmental and child clinical psychologist By Haddy Dardir Author’s Note: The interview for this...
Graduation 2026!
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the Psychological Sciences department! We had over 100 students graduate from our department with degrees from Bachelors, Masters SLP, and PhD. Below are some of the students we have highlighted on social media regarding their next steps. We are proud of each...
2026 Graduate Student Awards
The 22nd Annual Graduate Student Award Ceremony was held yesterday, April 29, 2026 in the Tinkham Veale University Center Ballroom. Over 100 students were honored with awards from the College of Arts and Sciences, Case School of Engineering, Weatherhead School of Management, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of...
Intersections Poster Symposium
Last Friday, undergrad students presented their research projects at the annual Intersections Poster Symposium. The students represented many different disciplines: Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. This event gives us the opportunity to interact with the undergraduate research that has been done here at...
Undergrad Psych students present research at Social Science Research Day
On Friday, April 10th, students from various Social Science departments participated in the first ever Social Science Research Day. This day was organized by Anthropology PhD students Jenna Hays, Anuoluwapo Ajibade, Sarah Namirembe, and Aria Wanek, and supported by professor and Anthropology department chair Janet McGrath, PhD. Clinical Psychology PhD...
Psychological sciences’ Wilson Brown examines connections between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and severe mental illnesses
Wilson Brown, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, and other researchers at Case Western Reserve University recently reported new findings in Psychiatry Research clarifying how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms interconnect with severe mental illnesses (SMI), such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The work, titled “Modeling the...
In University News
Researchers in Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Psychological Sciences recently published a study in Nature Human Behavior, challenging implicit biases that contribute to discrimination and societal inequities. The study, titled “Challenging the mechanism for the Implicit Association… [...]
From the moment they step foot on campus, Case Western Reserve University undergraduate students have ample opportunity to gain real-world experience in research settings. Across disciplines, they make integral contributions to the university’s research landscape. At the end of each term (fall,… [...]