Ph.D. students who concentrate in ecological psychology gain intellectual and technical skills demanded by problems in the field. They take courses in the Department of Psychological Sciences, such as:

• Sensation & Perception
• Control and Coordination of Movement
• Ecological Foundations of Psychology
• Ecological Social Psychology
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Movement Control I and II
• Introduction to Complex Systems
• Applied Time Series Analysis
• Dynamics and Language
• Approaches to Emergent Structure
• Evolution and Development

The concentration also requires two basic courses in statistical methods; these courses may be augmented by courses in a variety of advanced statistical methods.

Depending on a particular student’s interests, they can pursue courses outside of psychological sciences. Examples include biomechanics, computer graphics, embryology, evolutionary biology, neurobiology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of language, philosophy of physics, kinesiology, nonlinear dynamics, differential equations, and tensor calculus.