Pamela Rutledge, Doctoral Faculty at Fielding Graduate University, reveals her passion behind the Brand #Psychology and Audience Engagement certificate program concentration at #fieldinggraduateuniversity #mediapsychology #mediagraduatedegree

PhD in Media Psychology
The Fielding PhD in Media Psychology provides a comprehensive study in an emerging and exciting field. Media Psychology applies the psychology of human behavior and emotion to media and technology impact, design and distribution. Our students come from a variety of professional experiences and academic backgrounds with the common goal of applying psychological science to the media and technology landscape.

https://www.fielding.edu/our-programs/school-of-psychology/phd-media-psychology/

What Is Different?
Media psychology starts with psychology. Where traditional communication, media studies, sociology, or psychology programs focus on process or isolate media from human experience, media psychology offers the answer to the ‘why,’ integrating the expertise of psychology with in-depth knowledge of media and technology. Students explore the ways in which cognition, emotion, and instinct can influence human responses to different media stimuli and alter technological impact. Students use these skills to anticipate consumption and use patterns, engagement, and access and look for leverageable solutions to global problems, from smart technology design to economic, social, and environmental impact.

What We Do
Media psychologists are finding new roles across multiple domains. Fortune 100 companies, for example, increasingly recognize the need for applying media psychology to organizational communications, structure, products and strategy. Our graduates have innovated new roles working with companies like Mozilla, Fox Films, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and Disney among others, as well as crafting new business and consulting opportunities and developing successful advocacy campaigns. Special projects within the program give students the opportunity to have real-life experience during the course of their education. Recent projects include partnering with the Department of Defense deconstructing the narrative, cognitive and neuroscience triggers of terrorism in the social space and developing brand-aligned corporate social responsibility programs for companies like Grub Hub.

Students also participate alongside faculty and practitioners to present in forums such as Media Week, Digital Hollywood, and academic conferences such as the Pop Culture Association and the American Psychological Association. A recent student-faculty collaboration at the Pop Culture Association resulted in the publication of a book on the Fandom of Mad Men. Recent presentations at the American Psychological Association created multiple offers from publishers for books on brand psychology, immersive reality and media ethics.

Balance Your Studies with Your Busy Life
You don’t have to move or quit your job to study at Fielding. Coursework is offered in a distributed environment, making it possible for you to balance your studies with the demands of work, family, and community commitments. There are also plenty of opportunities to network and collaborate with faculty and peers both #online and in-person.
Customize Your Learning Experience
You can tailor your degree to follow your passions and achieve your goals. You will partner with faculty to create a customized plan of study and research. You may also elect to study popular topics, such as immersive media & augmented reality, media literacy, social impacts of technology, neuromarketing and the psychology of brand storytelling. At Fielding, we encourage you to use what you already know to inform your research. Our goal is to support yours. You are the driver of your educational journey. Every faculty member is committed to helping you build a program that will achieve your goals, from individual coursework to your dissertation.

Karen Dill-Shackleford shares how the distance learning model works.

Vision, Mission, and Values
The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.

Vision

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.
We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Mission

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar-practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values

Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge and experiences of our diverse community.

Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and ­­­­in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

Jenene Craig, PhD, discusses her doctoral journey. Dr. Craig is the program director for the Infant and Early Childhood and Development (IECD) program at #FieldingGraduateUniversity. IECD offers both a doctorate and master's degree program. Find out more at Fielding.edu/IECD.

The Fielding PhD in Media Psychology provides a comprehensive study in an emerging and exciting field. Media Psychology applies the #psychology of human behavior and emotion to #media and #technology impact, design and distribution. Our students come from a variety of professional experiences and academic backgrounds with the common goal of applying psychological science to the media and technology landscape.

Balance Your Studies with Your Busy Life
You don’t have to move or quit your job to study at Fielding. Coursework is offered in a distributed environment, making it possible for you to balance your studies with the demands of work, family, and community commitments. There are also plenty of opportunities to network and collaborate with faculty and peers both online and in-person.

Fielding has a lifelong community. Here you're part of a professional network and an academic network that extends across time and distance.

The Fielding #PhD in #MediaPsychology provides a comprehensive study in an emerging and exciting field. Media Psychology applies the #psychology of human behavior and emotion to media and #technology impact, design and distribution. Our students come from a variety of professional experiences and academic backgrounds with the common goal of applying psychological science to the media and technology landscape.

Balance Your Studies with Your Busy Life
You don’t have to move or quit your job to study at Fielding. Coursework is offered in a distributed environment, making it possible for you to balance your studies with the demands of work, family, and community commitments. There are also plenty of opportunities to network and collaborate with faculty and peers both online and in-person.

Fielding faculty, Keith Melville, PhD, tells the story of Fielding Graduate University, an institution that started a radically innovative doctoral program in the 1970s, and initiated many changes that have been widely adopted in his book titled, A Passion for Adult Learning: How the Fielding Model is Transforming Doctoral Education. Published by Fielding University Press.

Clinical psychology graduate, Natalie Montfort, says brick-and-mortar schools didn't work for her. "Fielding gave me the flexibility and quality of education that I need to be a practitioner."

Become a catalyst for positive change in your school, agency, or community. Fielding’s Doctor of Education (EdD) degree is designed for professionals inspired to tackle the challenges in today’s educational and human services systems.

Intellectual Power
Fielding’s EdD degree offers supportive, mentoring faculty who help students integrate their life experiences with rigorous academics. The #EdD degree helps students harness their own transformative power, building on their existing knowledge and experience. Energized by the freedom and encouragement to explore interests they care deeply about, our students move beyond knowledge consumption to knowledge production.

Individualized, Participatory Learning
Our faculty are actively engaged with each student and his or her learning plan. Fielding’s EdD provides a self-directed pathway for students to identify, explore, and pursue a personally and professionally relevant dissertation topic. Students develop customized learning plans to study their unique interests. Through a combination of project-based learning and competency-based instruction, they learn to solve real-world education problems in their communities.

Collaborative, Transcultural Community
A blended learning model — including synchronous face-to-face and flexible, #onlinelearning opportunities — allows students to engage in a global, interactive network. In Fielding’s distributed dialogue, all voices are valued. Learning is enhanced by the interaction of varied social, ethnic, and cultural perspectives.

Inspired Activists
Fielding’s EdD degree is designed for professionals committed to tackling the challenges in today’s educational and human services systems. Teachers, administrators, leaders, innovators, activists, and advocates develop new skills and profound insights from doctoral-level study. They become change agents, working for social and ecological justice.

Meaningful Impact
Through action-oriented research, students systematically analyze, evaluate, and improve educational processes and practices. Students with Fielding’s EdD degree are empowered and equipped to lead positive, systemic change in their communities.

Dr. Kimberly Harrison explains how Fielding enabled her to overcome her insecurities and continue on her journey on the road to "PhD City".

Fielding Graduate University's Vision, Mission, and Values

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.

Vision

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.
We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Mission

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar-practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values

Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge and experiences of our diverse community.

Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and ­­­­in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

3 certificates in Forensic Psychology from a leader in graduate psychology education, Fielding Graduate University. Certificate in Forensic Psychology for professionals in the legal field (law enforcement, attorneys, and other professionals). Certificate in Forensic Psychology for Mental Health Professionals designed for mental health (non-psychologists) professionals. And the Certificate in Forensic Psychology for Clinicians designed for clinical psychologists and clinical psychology doctoral students.

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.

Vision

We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Mission

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar-practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values

Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.

Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge and experiences of our diverse community.

Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and ­­­­in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

Fielding Graduate University's Vision, Mission, and Values
The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.

Vision

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.
We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Mission

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar-practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values

Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge and experiences of our diverse community.

Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and ­­­­in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

Fielding Graduate University's Vision, Mission, and Values

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.

Vision

The Fielding educational experience is informed by values that guide us in creating a rigorous and supportive academic learning environment.
We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Mission

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within a distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar-practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values

Academic Excellence: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.Community: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Diversity: We commit to having a faculty, staff and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge and experiences of our diverse community.

Learner-centered Education: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

Social Justice: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and ­­­­in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

Transformational Learning: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.