Department of Psychology
Core Courses
REQUIREMENT I: Majors are required to take the following three courses.
1) PSYC-001. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (3 credits)
2) *MATH-040. PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 credits)
*MATH-040 Probability and Statistics must be taken prior to PSYC-002: Research Methods and Statistics; it may be taken before PSYC-001 General Psychology.
3) PSYC-002. RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS (3 credits)
There are three areas of study:
AREA 1: CONCEPTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS
AREA 2: SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY
AREA 3: COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICAL BASIS
REQUIREMENT II: Majors are required to take one core course from each of the three areas of study.
— AREA 1. CONCEPTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS
110 History of Modern Psychology
111 Philosophy of Psychology
114 Philosophy of Psychology: Cognitive Science
115 Philosophy of Psychology: Wittgenstein
160 Childhood and Adolescence
262 Early Child Development
263 Psychology of Aging
264 Nature, Nurture and Human Development
266 Families, Parenting and Child Development
— AREA 2. SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY
140 Social Psychology
144 Social Psychology: Sociological Approaches
150 Theories of Personality
151 Abnormal Psychology
241 Cultural Psychology
252 Community Psychology
— AREA 3. COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICAL BASIS
120 Physiological Psychology
121 Behavioral Neuropsychology
130 Cognition
131 Learning
223 Monkeys, Apes, Humans
BIO-226 Animal Behavior
231 Psychology of Memory
232 Sensation and Perception
234 Cognitive Neuroscience
REQUIREMENT III: Majors are required to take any two courses at the Seminar Level (i.e., 300-level).
ICOS-202 Research Modules in Cognitive Science
301 Human Learning and Education
310 Images of the Mind
311 Philosophical Foundations of Psychology and Cognitive Science
312 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research
313 Psychology of Individual and Group Differences
314 Senior Research Seminar
320 Contemporary Issues in Neuroscience
321 Clinical Neuropsychology
IDST-324 Critique of Social Science
327 Biological Basis of Interpersonal Behavior
LING-333 Cross Cultural Communications
340 Social Psychology of Emotion
343 Psychology and Law
345 Emotion and the Arts
352 Madness, Genius, & Creativity
353 Culture and Psychopathology
354 Theories of Therapy
361 Children and Technology
362 Theories of Development
363 Developmental Psychopathology
365 Science, Politics, Children
366 Evolutionary Perspectives on Development and Cognition
367 Infancy
368 Children, Families, and the Law
369 Brain and Conscious Experience
370 Psychology and Literature
371 Contemporary Research on Emotion
372 Multiculturalism, Democracy, and Intergroup Relations
373 The Roots, Growth and Fruits of Cognitive Neuroscience
374 Key Thinkers in Developmental Psychology
PHIL-401 Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Language
LING-451 Bilingualism
REQUIREMENT IV: Majors are required to take two additional courses from the combined offerings of core, seminar, and elective categories. Electives count toward the major but do not count toward filling the area requirements.
ICOS-201 Introduction to Cognitive Science
230 Psychology, Photography, and the Visual Arts
250 Psychology of Criminal Behavior
If you have specific questions about the major or minor and cannot find the answers in the Undergraduate Handbook, please contact one or both of the Co-Directors of the Undergraduate Program, Professor W. Gerrod Parrott and Professor James T. Lamiell.