Alliant International University is a professional practice University committed to excellence in four areas:  Education for Professional Practice, Scholarship, Multicultural and International Competence and Community Engagement.  The University provides students with the highest quality of education through excellence and innovation in academic scholarship, applied training and research, and community service, particularly to underserved populations.  Through its Mission, the University's goal is to equip students with the competencies they need to provide public benefit and make an impact in their communities by addressing major contemporary social issues.  Core competencies of the University's training programs include cultural diversity, which is infused in courses and field placements and is manifest in the diversity of its students, faculty.

 

Our Mission:
Alliant International University prepares students for professional careers of service and leadership, and promotes the discovery and application of knowledge to improve the lives of people in diverse cultures and communities around the world.

 

 Our Vision:
An inclusive world empowered by Alliant alumni.

 

 

 

The Clinical PSYD Program in San Diego follows a Practitioner-Scholar model that emphasizes the applications of theory and research to clinical practice. The program develops competent professional health-care psychologists skilled in delivering a variety of clinical services to diverse populations in varied settings. The program’s most distinctive component is its dual emphasis on clinical expertise and clinical scholarship. Students take courses in a wide range of subjects, including statistics, theories of personality, psychological assessment, multicultural issues, and psychological practice. Students may follow their own clinical interests and further their individual career goals by selecting a specialized series of courses, research, and field placements related to a particular area of practice.

Adjunct professors are in the following programs/courses:

Specific Courses:

Fall 2025 (Aug. 18, 2025- Dec. 7, 2025)

PSY60300 Advanced Statistics (3 units)

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 

 

• Describe, tabulate, and summarize data; 
• Compute measures of central tendency and variability; 
• Use probability distributions in hypothesis testing; 
• Compare means by the t test;
• Compare means by analysis of variance (ANOVA); 
• Compute and interpret correlation and regression; 
• Conduct multivariate and factor analyses; 
• Evaluate others’ data analyses as well as conduct one’s own analyses. 

 

PSY65010 Intellectual Assessment (3 units)

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to identify key content in the following areas by demonstrating competency through oral examination, written examination and through integrative conceptualization in written report in the following domains:  

 

• History and Systems
  • Historical development of concepts about intelligence. Awareness of the current research and current controversies related to intellectual assessment 
  • Theoretical concepts that underlie development of IQ tests particularly with respect to theoretical factors related to intelligence, genetics, culture, and ethnicity. Relationship of IQ to personality functioning 
• understand the relationship between brain processes and intellecual behavior 
• Understanding the psychometric underpinnings of tests, in general and of the Wechsler