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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Psychology Major Requirements

COURSES BY CONTENT AREAS
For 2002-08 Catalogs

Advising | Admission to Psychology | Course Information | Career Planning | UT Resources
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

Content Categories for 2000-2002 Catalogs

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Updated 9 August 2006
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