Majors, Minors & Requirements

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MAJOR IN PSYCHOLOGY

A total of 11 courses or forty-four (44) credits in the major as follows:

  1. Psychology 150 to be taken as early as possible in the student’s course of study.
  2. Psychology 200 to be taken as early as possible in the student’s course of study.
  3. Psychology 211.
  4. One advanced method course from among Psychology 350 - 353.
  5. Three content areas courses from: Psychology 216, 220, 225, 229, 311, 318, 323, 326, and 327.
  6. One course designated as writing intensive in psychology
  7. One course applying psychology which may be an internship(460), a service-learning course, 229, 326, 338, 351 or a course in education that is not cross-listed in psychology.
  8. Psychology 485 to be taken during the senior year.

One course beyond the introductory level outside the department in a field that can be connected to Psychology.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINOR IN PSYCHOLOGY

A total of 6 courses or twenty-four (24) credits as follows:

  1. Psychology 150.
  2. Psychology 200.
  3. Four additional psychology courses to be chosen in consultation with a departmental advisor and to be approved by the department chair.  These will be selected to coordinate with the student’s major and career aspirations, and will normally include at least one 300- or 400-level course.

HONORS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Members of the faculty of the Department of Psychology encourage students of exceptional academic accomplishment to pursue research with a departmental faculty sponsor that is of an in-depth, rigorous nature; this work will introduce the student to the quality of research one would normally experience in a graduate program. Because the level of involvement of the student and his or her faculty sponsor will be greater in Honors research than that in either a Tutorial or Directed Inquiry, the faculty of the Department of Psychology have established rules for student admission to and conduct in the Departmental Honors Program. The policies are described on the department website and in the Major’s Handbook.