Fielding Graduate University - Santa Barbara
- School of Psychology,
- 2112 Santa Barbara Street
- Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Why Fielding Graduate University?
Fielding Graduate University sets the standard world-wide for quality and innovation in transformational distributed graduate education and research. We support the well-being and success of our students as they pursue their goals and seek significance as life-long learners and leaders in their professions in the service of ethical social change and social justice. Our graduates make a difference.
The mission of Fielding Graduate University is to meet your educational and professional needs as an adult learner and a mid-career professional. To this end, we have developed an educational model that builds on your existing learning and professional experience, that features collaborative, competency-based learning and assessment, and provides flexible scheduling to accommodate the many demands placed upon your time as a working professional.
We offer fully accredited, high quality graduate education programs that are rigorous and demanding. Our outstanding faculty will challenge you in many ways as they help prepare you for the life of the scholar-practitioner. As a Fielding student, you will become part of a community of scholars dispersed throughout the country and around the world. This community is committed to transforming graduate education and research to advance individuals, organizations and society.
School of Psychology
Multicultural awareness and self-development are among the core values of the School of Psychology. Students evolve as scholar-practitioners within their own social and cultural contexts. Our programs attune students to the ways in which differences in race, class, gender and ethnicity relate to the theory and practice of psychology.
MA in Media Psychology & Social Change
Fielding Graduate University's School of Psychology offers a master's degree in media psychology and social change with the cooperation of UCLA Extension. Students study the specific benefits of understanding human behavior when working with media applications, how media affects individuals and cultures, and how media can be used for socially constructive purposes. Open to those with a bachelor's degree or higher, this partnership program provides a sequence of four courses from UCLA Extension that may be applied directly to a master's degree in media psychology and social change from Fielding Graduate University. In addition, special provisions are available to those who may later wish to pursue a doctorate at fielding. Offered entirely online, the program allows for great flexibility and attention to individual goals; carefully planned activities to allow you to maintain your professional career while in the program.
