The Wright Institute's PsyD curriculum is carefully designed to acquire progressively more sophisticated knowledge and clinical capabilities systematically. This developmental approach to learning builds on a solid foundation of research, assessment techniques, and theoretical knowledge.

The doctoral-level competencies enable program graduates to fully utilize the scope of practice of a California licensed acupuncturist, including ordering and interpreting labs and diagnostic imaging, giving effective nutrition advice and exercise counselling, collaborating with other practitioners inpatient care, and incorporating scholarship, research, evidence-based and functional medicine into clinical practice.

A necessarily interdisciplinary and often cross-cultural field, the historical study of Buddhism at the GTU is well balanced with anthropological, cultural, and area studies perspectives.

Students in the Hindu Studies concentration focus on the history of Hindu thought traditions and their cultural expressions.

Students in this concentration work to develop competencies in the study of the Qur’an and Prophetic Tradition. Contextualizing these foundational sources through their historical development and the contributions of generations of Muslim scholars, students study related texts and traditions, including Islamic law, theology, and spirituality that together inform the textual and interpretative community of Islam.

Students in Anthropology of Religion study cultural contexts, beginning with conceptualizing “religion” itself as the product of Christian, European, and colonial genealogies in order to understand this concept’s impact on the world.

Students in the Jain Studies concentration study Jain philosophy, ethics, and living streams of religious experience based on non-harming.

Students in this concentration acquire the requisite skills to investigate “lived religion” both over time and amid contemporary contexts.

Students in this concentration study Christian religious experience. The focus is on Christian Spirituality in the context of the broad contemporary understanding of spirituality.

Students in this concentration study the Christian religion through critical historical investigation of the unity, diversity, and development of Christian communities, their material cultures and spiritualities, and their relations to other religions.

Students in this concentration engage in the interdisciplinary study, research, and teaching of Islam in its theological, historical, cultural, and comparative contexts, with a focus on Islamic texts in contemporary contexts, Islam as a lived tradition, and the global expressions of Muslim diversity, both past and present.

The Ethics concentration prepares students to contextualize the major figures in the development of ethics and social theory, to interrelate ethics with a secondary concentration, to do research, and to construct an ethical argument.

This concentration focuses on the systematic study of the Muslim intellectual tradition devoted to explorations of divine revelation, religious belief, and philosophical developments.

Inspired by an increasingly pluralistic global context that brings diverse religious worlds into contact, this concentration prepares students to engage in the study of the distinct theologies, practices, and ethics of different religions from a dialogical perspective.

Students in this concentration work to develop competencies in broad-ranging aspects of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament