Psychology Major Requirements
COURSES BY CONTENT AREAS
For 2002-08 Catalogs
Note: Not every course on this list is offered every semester.
Limit one lower-division topic course for PSY majors.
Clinical/Social
- PSY 309 - Personality
- PSY 319 - Social Psychology
- PSY 339 - Behavior Problems in Children
- PSY 343K - Substance Abuse
- PSY 350 - Motivation
- PSY 352 - Abnormal
- PSY 364 - Intro to Clinical
- PSY 365G - Gender and Racial Attitudes
- PSY 365L - Advanced Social Psy
- PSY 365M - Cross-Cultural Psy
Cognition/Language
- PSY 305 - Intro to Cognitive Psy
- PSY 333N - Cognitive Development
- PSY 333P - Language Development
- PSY 337 - Psy of Language
- PSY 338K - Psy of Reading
- PSY 345 - Individual Differences
- PSY 350K – Environmental Psy
- PSY 355 – Cognition
- PSY 355C - Introduction to Cognitive Science
- PSY 355D - Animal Cognition
- PSY 355R - Reasoning and Decision Making
Developmental/Evolutionary
- PSY 304 - Intro to Child Psychology
- PSY 333C - Controversial Issues in Development
- PSY 333D - Developmental Psy
- PSY 333E - Identity Formation
- PSY 333F - Fantasy and Reality
- PSY 333M - Infant Development
- PSY 333R - Social Development
- PSY 333T - Adolescent Development
- PSY 333V - Family Violence
- PSY 334C - Evolution of Human Behavior
- PSY 334D - Psy of Human Mating
- PSY 334E - Evolutionary Psy
- PSY 340M - Industrial Psy
- PSY 346K - Psychology of Sex
Neuroscience/Perception
- PSY 308 - Biopsychology
- PSY 323 – Perception
- PSY 323P - Perc Systems: Neurons/Behavior/Evol
- PSY 323S - Sex Diff in Cognition and Perception
- PSY 326K - Principles of Conditioning & Learning
- PSY 332 - Behavioral Neuroscience
- PSY 332C - Hormones & Behavior
- PSY 333 - Comparative Psy (note: course retired)
- PSY 353K - Psychopharmacology
- PSY 371 - Learning Theories & Applications
- PSY 373K - Behavior Genetics
Additional courses not in any area:
- PSY 317 - Statistical Methods in Psy (offered by correspondence only)
- PSY 325K - Advanced Statistics
- PSY 341K - Topics in Psy
- PSY 458 - Experimental Psy
Courses required for all Psychology majors with a grade of 'C' or better
- PSY 301 - Intro to Psychology
- PSY 418 - Statistics & Research Design
