Minor Requirements
I. Minors are Required to Take Six Courses.
Core Course
001 General Psychology
II. Minors are required to take One Core Course from each of the Three Different Areas
Courses at the 100-level are taught in lecture format, and assessment is based primarily on examinations.
Courses at the 200-level are smaller in many cases and involve more discussion, writing assignments, and special class activities. Either format can fulfill the requirement for Core courses.
Area 1. Conceptual and Developmental Foundations
111 Philosophy of Psychology
114 Philosophy of Psychology: Cognitive Science
115 Philosophy of Psychology: Wittgenstein
160 Childhood and Adolescence
153 (formerly 161) Lifespan Development
216 (formerly 110) History of Modern Psychology
262 Early Child Development
263 Psychology of Aging
264 Nature, Nurture and Human Development
Area 2. Social and Personality
140 Social Psychology
144 Social Psychology: Sociological Approaches
150 Theories of Personality
151 Abnormal Psychology
241 Cultural Psychology
252 Community Psychology
Area 3. Cognitive and Biological Basis
120 Physiological Psychology
130 Cognition
131 Learning
223 Monkeys, Apes, Humans
BIOL-226 Animal Behavior
231 Psychology of Memory
234 Cognitive Neuroscience 235 Social and Affective Neuroscience
III. Minors are Required to Take Two Additional Courses from the Following List or Any Other Course from the Preceding Lists at Any Level and from Any Areas
ICOS- 202 Research Modules in Cognitive Science
230 Psychology, Photography, and the Visual Arts
250 Psychology of Criminal Behavior
301 Human Learning and Education
312 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research
313 Psychology of Individual and Group Differences
321 Clinical Neuropsychology
IDST-324 Critique of Social Science
327 Biological Basis of Interpersonal Behavior
LING-333 Cross Cultural Communications
340 Social Psychology of Emotion
345 Emotion and the Arts
353 Culture and Psychopathology 358 Empathy, Altruism, and Aggression
361 Children and Technology
362 Theories of Development
363 Developmental Psychopathology
365 Science, Politics, Children
366 Evolutionary Perspectives on Development and Cognition
367 Infancy
368 Children, Families, and the Law
369 Brain and Conscious Experience
370 Psychology and Literature
371 Contemporary Research on Emotion
372 Multiculturalism, Democracy and Intergroup Relations
373. The Roots, Growth and Fruits of Cognitive Neuroscience
374. Key Thinkers in Developmental Psychology
375 Political Psychology
PHIL-401. Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Language
LING-451. Bilingualism
If you have specific questions about the major or minor and cannot find the answers in the Undergraduate Handbook, please contact one or both of the Co-Directors of the Undergraduate Program, Professor David Crystal and Professor Steve Sabat.
