COVER STORY
The NICHE question: How specialized should you get?

To specialize or generalize is not the question
Get a good general education, then specialize, many advise.

Three programs: three different training models

A bull market for creative grads
Your career options depend in part on how wisely you monitor and act on employment trends.

CAREER CENTER

Real learning in virtual classes
So you're teaching a course online. How do you know your students are learning?

CV dos and don'ts
Your curriculum vitae gives potential employers a first look at you. How you cast it determines whether they give you a second one.

Taking control
Establishing your authority in the classroom doesn't mean you have to be a dictator.

DEGREE IN SIGHT

Match mysteries solved
Knowing the facts helps dispel the myths of internship selection.

Students in the client's seat
Individual and group psychotherapy enrich the graduate school experience, many agree, as long as privacy concerns are carefully considered.

Meet your APAGS officers

CLASS ACT

Early 'Eureka!' leads to Harvard postdoc
A curious undergraduate asks a question that launches a psychology career.

MONEY MATTERS

How to live on an internship budget
Making your money stretch during your final training year.

Big winners
Three graduate students get a $20,000 boost for their research from the American Psychological Foundation's Koppitz Fellowship program.

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