Major
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The major consists of at least 10 credits.
Statistics
Math 141, or Math 151, or Bio 212.
Psychology
Psy 202 Quantitative Research Methods
Biological
Two of the following:
Psy 225 Brain, Mind and Behavior
Psy 226 Comparative Animal Behavior
Psy 227 Drugs and Behavior
Psy 235 Human Sexuality
Psy 261 Psychobiology of Sex and Gender
Psy 265 Health Psychology
Psy 275 The Body in Human Experience
Psy 341 Laboratory in Behavioral Neuroscience
Psy 348 Laboratory in Animal Communication and Cognition
Psy 367 Cognitive Neuroscience
Individual
Two of the following:
Psy 203 Developmental Psychology
Psy 211 Learning and Memory
Psy 221 Experiencing: The Phenomenology of Everyday Life
Psy 222 Cognition
Psy 241 Personality: The Study of Lives
Psy 247 Abnormal Psychology
Psy 312 Perception
Psy 315 Social and Emotional Development
Psy 324 Childhood Behavior Disorders
Psy 330 Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
Psy 343 Laboratory in Cognitive Psychology
Psy 344 Laboratory in Qualitative Research
Psy 345 Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
Psy 369 Clinical Psychology
Sociocultural
Two of the following:
Psy 232 Social Psychology
Psy 251 Multicultural Psychology
Psy 260 Psychology of Religion
Psy 270 Adolescent Development
Psy 272 Psychological Anthropology
Psy 290 Psychology of Women
Psy 306 Infancy across Cultures
Psy 326 Political Psychology
Psy 334 Practicum in Human Services
Psy 336 Child Development in the Navajo Nation
Psy 340 Laboratory in Social Psychology
Of the six courses in the above three categories, one must be a 300-level course and one must be a laboratory course (i.e., at least two 300-level psychology courses are required).
Seminar or thesis
Psy 400 Psychology Senior Seminar
Honors Work
Students with an overall GPA of 3.4 or higher are encouraged to consider completing an honors thesis in psychology. Proposals for honors theses must be reviewed and approved by the department, generally in the spring of the junior year.
Psy 500 Senior Honors Thesis
Students who undertake a senior thesis must also take the Senior Seminar in Psychology.
Courses in the following subject areas outside of psychology are also recommended: writing; philosophy, including logic and ethics; other social sciences; computer science; biology and the physical sciences.