{"id":975,"date":"2012-06-04T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/?page_id=975"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T21:49:36","slug":"change-in-major-area-of-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/student-handbook\/academics\/change-in-major-area-of-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Major Area of Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a student\u2019s research interests change to the point that the student and his\/her Guidance Committee decide his\/her interests would best be served by participation in a different major area of study, the procedure to do so is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px; list-style-position: outside;\">A brief request signed by the student and the Guidance Committee chair stating the desire to change major area of study should be prepared.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-left: 10px; list-style-position: outside;\">The request should then be submitted to both Co-Directors, with a copy to the co-leaders of both the old and the new major area of study. This can be done electronically. Major areas of study are represented by faculty co-leaders from each university. Please refer to the <a href=\"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/major-areas-of-study\/\">Major Areas of Study<\/a> webpage for the co-leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Once approved, let both Program Coordinators know of the change so that program records and listserv memberships can be updated accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Updated 8\/20\/2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a student\u2019s research interests change to the point that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":41,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-975","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16667,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/975\/revisions\/16667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.sdsu.edu\/doctoral\/clinical\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}