Course Requirements

Admission Into the Major

We encourage interested students to formally declare a major in psychology during the sophomore year. Conditional acceptance will be granted upon completion of the Major/Advisor form available in the Office of Academic Advisement; final acceptance into the major requires a minimum grade of C in Psy 201, and 202.

Requirements (For students admitted to the College August 2007 or later)

Core Courses (13 credits)

PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology: Physiological, Cognitive, and Sensory Processes

PSY 102: Introduction to Psychology: Personality, Development, and Social Behavior

PSY 201: Statistics and Research Methods I

PSY 202: Statistics and Research Methods II

Distribution Requirement (12 credits)

Choose one course from the developmental sequence:
- PSY 221: Child Development

PSY 224: Development in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Psy 321: Middle Age and Aging

OR CHOOSE

Psy 222: Social Psychology

Choose one of the following:

PSY 315: Physiological Psychology
PSY 314: Sensation and Perception

Choose one of the following:

PSY 311: Learning
PSY 312: Memory and Cognition

Choose one of the following:

PSY 323: Abnormal Psychology
PSY 314: Psychology of Personalit

ELectives (6 credits)

Students may choose two courses from the distributon requirement that they had not taken and/or any other psychology courses.

Capstone Courses (3 credits) Choose one of the following:

PSY 442: History of Psychology

PSY 444: Senior Seminar

Requirements (For students admitted to the College prior to August 2007)

A. Required Core (13 credits)

Psy 101 - Introduction to Psychology
Psy 200 - Theories in Psychology
Psy 201 - Statistics and Research Methods I
Psy 202 - Statistics and Research Methods II

B. One course must be selected from each of the following areas (9-10 credits)

AREA I: Psychological Processes
Psy 311 - Learning
Psy 312 - Memory and Cognition
Psy 313 - Motivation
Psy 314 - Perception
Psy 315 - Physiological Psychology

AREA II: Psychological Functioning
Psy 221 - Developmental I: Childhood and Young Adulthood
Psy 222 - Social Psychology
Psy 223 - Psychology of Women
Psy 321 - Developmental II: Middle Age and Aging
Psy 322 - Personality
Psy 323 - Abnormal Psychology
Psy 324 - Issues in Aging
Psy 327 - Human Sexual Behavior

AREA III: Psychological Applications
Psy 231 - Behavior Modification
Psy 331 - Tests and Measurements
Psy 332 - Exceptional Individual
Psy 333 - Organizational Psychology
Psy 334 - Counseling and Psychotherapy
Psy 335 - Environmental Psychology
Psy 336 - Human Factors

C. One of the following must be selected as an Upper Level Integrator (3 credits)

Psy 442 - History of Psychology
Psy 444 - Senior Seminar

D. The remaining three courses may be chosen from any psychology course offerings (9 credits)