MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (FOR STUDENTS WHO MATRICULATED IN AND AFTER FALL 2022)
Ten 4-point courses (40 points), completed with a grade of C or higher, are required:
- Introduction to Psychology (PSYCH-UA 1)
- One of the following statistics courses:
- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (PSYCH-UA 10; cannot count for more than one major requirement)
- Statistics and Data Analysis for Research in Psychology (PSYCH-UA 11; cannot count for more than one major requirement)
- One of the following additional quantitative courses:
- Data Literacy for Psychology (PSYCH-UA 8)
- Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (PSYCH-UA 10; cannot count for more than one major requirement)
- Statistics and Data Analysis for Research in Psychology(PSYCH-UA 11; cannot count for more than one major requirement)
- Or one quantitative advanced elective, chosen from:
- From Illusions to Inference (PSYCH-UA 60)
- Computational Neuroscience (PSYCH-UA 300)
- Computer Programming for the Psychological Sciences (PSYCH-UA 300)
- Decision Making (PSYCH-UA 300)
- Other quantitative advanced electives may be added to this list; please regularly check this Bulletin section online, and/or the website of the Department of Psychology, for new options.
- Quantitative advanced electives, if taken, do not count toward the general advanced elective requirement (below).
- Two courses from Core A (psychology as a natural science), chosen from:
- Perception (PSYCH-UA 22)
- Cognitive Neuroscience (PSYCH-UA 25)
- Cognition (PSYCH-UA 29)
- Developmental Psychology (PSYCH-UA 34)
- Social Neuroscience (PSYCH-UA 35)
- Two courses from Core B (psychology as a social science), chosen from:
- Personality (PSYCH-UA 30)
- Social Psychology (PSYCH-UA 32)
- Developmental Psychology (PSYCH-UA 34)
- Social Neuroscience (PSYCH-UA 35)
- One laboratory course from Core C, chosen from:
- Laboratory in Social and Organizational Psychology (PSYCH-UA 38)
- Laboratory in Personality and Social Psychology (PSYCH-UA 39)
- Laboratory in Developmental Psychology (PSYCH-UA 40)
- Laboratory in Infancy Research (PSYCH-UA 42)
- Laboratory in Cognition and Perception (PSYCH-UA 46)
- Psychological Science and Society (PSYCH-UA 53)
- Two advanced electives (quantitative advanced electives, if taken, do not count toward this requirement), chosen from:
- Teaching in Psychology (PSYCH-UA 2)
- Language and Mind (PSYCH-UA 27)
- Practicum in Clinical Psychology Research (PSYCH-UA 43)
- Linguistics as Cognitive Science (PSYCH-UA 48)
- Abnormal Psychology (PSYCH-UA 51)
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics (PSYCH-UA 56)
- First Language Acquisition (PSYCH-UA 59)
- From Illusions to Inference (PSYCH-UA 60)
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology (PSYCH-UA 62)
- Motivation and Volition (PSYCH-UA 74)
- Political Psychology (PSYCH-UA 75)
- Experiments in Beauty (PSYCH-UA 79)
- Clinical Psychology (PSYCH-UA 81)
- Special Topics in Psychology - Topics Vary (PSYCH-UA 300)