A total of 11 courses or forty-four (44) credits in the major as follows:
- Psychology 150 to be taken as early as possible in the student’s course of study.
- Psychology 200 and 211 should be taken as early as possible. Ideally they should be completed by the spring semester of the sophomore year.
- At least one course from each of the following five content domains (At least three of these courses must be core courses (bolded) from separate domains). * each course can only count in one content domain:
- Development Across the Lifespan: Psychology 222, 229, 230, 231.
- Cognition and Learning: Psychology 216*, 306, 327, 345/345L.
- Biological Bases of Behavior: Psychology 216*, 317* or 318*, 344/344L; Neuroscience 270.
- Sociocultural Bases of Behavior and Experience: Psychology 232, 240, 280, 323, 330.
- Health and Well-Being: 218, 220, 224, 311, 324, 317* or 318*.
- One course should be a 300-level course from one of the content domains.
- One advanced methods and statistics course from among Psychology 350 – 353 or content courses that include substantial integration of statistical analysis and work with datasets (i.e., 306, 338). This course should be taken junior year. Before taking a particular advanced methods course, students should complete PSYC 200 and 211, as well as the core course that relates to it.
- One community-based or independent investigation course: Psychology 229 (some sections), 231, 330, 451, 452, 460, 495, or 496; Education 360 or 460.
- One other course in psychology (only one 105 course may count) or one of the following: EDUC 222, URBN 250, MUS 145.
- Psychology 485 to be taken during the senior year.