Psychology (MSc) in Canada at WLU Canada

Program Overview for Psychology (MSc) in Canada:

Our Master of Science in Psychology (MSc) program is offered in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience. In our course, you will begin the investigation with the teacher advisor in the fall of the first year. Over the course of 16 to 24 months, under the close guidance of your consultant, you will learn how to develop a research plan, use research methods and statistical techniques, present your work at conferences and posters, and use your research as an expert in the field.

You will establish close connections with faculty, staff, and peers through small intensive courses, research lab groups, and regular regional meetings (including seminars and magazine clubs). Students who have a master's degree in psychology specializing in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience generally enter a doctoral program or find employment in an environment that requires research skills.

COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCES

Neuroscience is one of the most exciting and fastest-growing fields of all life sciences. At Laurier, we use a comprehensive perspective to study the interactions between the behavior, cognition, and nervous systems of different species from fish to humans, populations to individuals and cells, and time scales from milliseconds to generations. 

In the course, you will start working and researching with the teacher advisor in the fall of your freshman year. In the course of 16 to 24 months, with the close advice of your consultant, you will learn how to develop a research plan, use research methods and statistical techniques, present your work in lectures and posters, and communicate as an expert. Your research on this matter. 

You will build close connections with teachers and peers through small intensive courses, research laboratory groups, and regular regional meetings (including seminars and magazine clubs). Our research interests are interrelated, focusing on underlying mechanisms:

• Visual and auditory perception;
• Motor control, attention, and memory;
• Language;
• Medical (mental) disorders, including addiction, eating disorders, and age-related memory disorders;
• The neurobiology of learning and memory, the evolution of learning, social learning, comparative cognition, the learning-motivation interface, and neural plasticity; and
• Social organization and collective behavior.

The goal of the master's program is to develop abilities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of neuroscience research. The program's purpose is to prepare students for Ph.D. studies or employment in an environment that requires research skills. 

Research Focus

Our faculty work in the fields of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. Specific research foci include:

• Animal models of human medical/mental disorders including addiction, eating disorders, and age-related memory disorders.
• The importance of learning processes including the neurobiology of learning and memory, comparative cognition of time and number processing, learning-motivation interface, and neural plasticity.
• Our Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience researchers spans a broad range of cognitive neuroscience topics, including visual and auditory perception, motor control, attention, memory, and language.

Careers

Our graduates have gone on to work in medical research, policy and planning for various agencies, and both staff and faculty academic positions.

Examples of jobs held by our graduates include:

• faculty positions at Algoma University and Grant MacEwan University
• Multi-Health Systems, Toronto
• federal government research
• survey research

Facilities 

Our facilities allow teachers and students to use a wide variety of tools and techniques, including:

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), high-density evoked potentials (EP), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
• Animal models of human medical (mental) disorders, including addiction, eating disorders, and age-related memory disorders.
• Automated tracking of collective behavior and operant behaviors.
• Confocal imaging, immunohistochemistry, patch-clamp electrophysiology, quantitative gene expression analyses, and in situ hybridization.

In addition, a field station is equipped to study large groups of freely behaving animals to study the neural mechanisms organizing complex social behavior.

The eligibility for Psychology (MSc) in Canada for both domestic and international student is:

Admission Requirements:

• A four-year (honors) undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in psychology or a related field.
• A minimum B average in your last two years of study.
• Applications are reviewed by the graduate program committee, which considers all prior university grades, a writing sample, and letters of reference.

Application Checklist:

After you have submitted your OUAC application, paid the non-refundable application fee, and Laurier has received your application, you'll receive an email from gradadmissions@wlu.ca advising you to upload the additional required documentation to Laurier’s Online Registration & Information System (LORIS).

An application for admission to our MA/MSc programs in Psychology must include:

• The Application Summary is generated after you complete your OUAC application (log back into OUAC to retrieve it).
• Transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work.
• A completed statement of intent.
• A resume of your academic and work experience. Include a history of your publication and scholarly paper activity, and any other information you feel will interest the admissions committee.
• A sample of your scholarly writing (10-20 pages in length). This may be a paper written for a senior undergraduate course.
• Completed reference forms. Two academic references are required. Applicants to the community psychology field are required to submit, in addition to two academic references, one professional reference letter. Note: Reference forms are electronically submitted to Laurier by the referee and do not need to be uploaded.

Proficiency in written and spoken English is essential to graduate studies at Laurier. Applicants whose language of instruction during their previous postsecondary education was not in English must submit evidence of proficiency in English. If applicable, results from accepted testing services must be uploaded to LORIS.

These are the test eligibilities for the Psychology (MSc) to qualify.

The international student tuition fees and costs for Psychology (MSc) in Canada.

The tuition fees are based on the term(Not per academic year). Wilfred offers generous funding to its graduate students. Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA), Research Assistant, Contract Teaching Faculty (CTF), Internal scholarships and awards, and external funding are also available to support students. Some other funding includes:

• Winners of major external awards (OGS, QEII, and Tri-Council) may be eligible for top-up funding, including the Dean's Graduate Scholarship (total value exceeds $10,000).
• Eligible domestic students admitted studying on a full-time basis receive a minimum of $22,000 a year. This support may be made up of teaching assistantships, internal/external scholarships, and/or faculty-funded studentships or research assistantships.
• Our graduate funding web page includes a list of all funding opportunities available to Laurier graduate students, including information about OGS, QEII, and Tri-Council.

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