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Dec 11, 2024
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Psychology, BA
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In accordance with the learning aims of the undergraduate psychology major, students are provided with a unique degree of flexibility in selecting courses from seven required areas to prepare them best for graduate programs or careers of their choice.
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Requirements for All Psychology Majors
The following four courses are required for all psychology majors:
Seven Required Areas
In addition, majors choose the specified number of courses from each of the following groups:
Group I: Advanced Topics (choose two)
Group II: Learning and Cognition (choose one)
Group III: Behavioral Neuroscience (choose one)
Group IV: Developmental (choose one)
Group V: Social and Personality (choose one)
Group VI: Clinical/Applied (choose one)
Group VII: Culture and Context (choose one)
Notes:
In addition to the 11 three- and four-credit courses and the one-credit course mentioned above, students are to choose three more courses from any of the groups to serve as psychology electives.
Requirements for the Major
Requirements for a major and an example of a typical program of courses are as follows:
Spring Term
- PY Group I Course**
- PY Group III Course**
- Ethics Core (PL/TH 300- or 400-Level)
- Theology Core
- Elective
Fall Term
- PY Group I Course**
- PY Group VI Course**
- Nondepartmental Elective
- Elective
- Elective
Spring Term
- PY Elective**
- Nondepartmental Elective
- Elective
- Elective
- Elective
Key:
* Required for major.
** Terms may be interchanged.
Notes:
- PY 101 is a prerequisite for all other PY courses.
- ST 110 or ST 210 or ST 265 is ideally taken prior to PY 291 , but it may be taken concurrently. This statistics requirement must be completed prior to taking PY 292 . These are the only math courses that fulfill the pre-/corequisite for PY 291 .
- Psychology majors and interdisciplinary majors are strongly encouraged to take BL 105 ; however, they may take BL 121 /BL 126 (and in the case of BL/PY are required to take BL 121 /BL 126 ). Taking either BL 105 or BL 121 serves as the prerequisite for Group III courses.
- All PY 200-level courses (except PY 200 , PY 291 , and PY 292 ) may be used by the nonpsychology major as social science core courses, provided the PY 101 prerequisite is met.
- Students must complete the diversity core requirement through a designated diversity core, major, or elective course (see Diversity Core Requirement under Curriculum and Policies).
Honors in Psychology
An honors option is available to psychology majors who meet the requirements listed below.
- A 3.700 GPA in the major and a 3.500 overall GPA. This GPA determination is based upon cumulative grades and is confirmed in the student's second to last semester.
Entry into the honors option is contingent upon the approval of the Director of Undergraduate Education. Students should meet with the Director of Undergraduate Education no later than the close of the student's second to last semester.
Semester Sequences and Seminal Project
To complete the requirements for honors, students will complete one of three possible two-semester sequences listed below and present a seminal project in a professional forum* (e.g. Undergraduate Research and Scholarship Colloquium, Psi Chi Induction, professional local, regional, or national conference).
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