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The following is an excerpt from the department program. Download entire program. Community and Culture Concentration The Community and Culture Concentration (CCC) is a graduate specialization leading to the Ph.D. in psychology. The importance of multi-disciplinary education is recognized and, therefore, the core CCC curriculum is combined with offerings from other departments at the University of Hawai'i. This multi-disciplinary curriculum is designed to provide systematic coverage of the major theoretical and empirical work in the field with sufficient flexibility to meet student interests, enthusiasms, and career goals.
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Roland
G. Tharp (Ph.D., University of Michigan), Emeritus Professor of
Psychology at the Universities of Hawai'i and California, won the
Grawemeyer Award in 1993, for the book Rousing Minds to Life, based
on twenty years' work as Principal Investigator of the
Kamehameha Early Education Program (KEEP). His research and theory
in the fields of psychotherapy, behavior therapy, family
relationships, human development, education, culture, and linguistic
diversity span 40 years and 250 publications. Behavior Modification
in the Natural Environment, a study of intervention strategies
for pre-delinquents, was in print for 20 years and
is a recurrent Citations Classic. He is Director of the federal
government's National Center for Research on Education,
Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) and currently lives in Santa
Cruz, CA. Major awards have been made to his fiction, poetry and
films, and to his teaching.