Department of Psychology

Core Courses

REQUIREMENT I:  Majors are required to take the following three courses.

1) PSYC-001. GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (3 credits)

2) *MATH-040. PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (4 credits)

*MATH-040 Probability and Statistics must be taken prior to PSYC-002: Research Methods and Statistics; it may be taken before PSYC-001 General Psychology.

3) PSYC-002. RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS (3 credits)

Areas of Study

There are three areas of study:

AREA 1:  CONCEPTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS
AREA 2:  SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY
AREA 3: COGNITIVE AND BIOLOGICAL BASIS

REQUIREMENT II:  Majors are required to take one core course from each of the three areas of study.

— AREA 1. CONCEPTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATIONS

111 Philosophy of Psychology
114 Philosophy of Psychology: Cognitive Science
115 Philosophy of Psychology: Wittgenstein
153 (formerly 161) Lifespan Development
160 Childhood and Adolescence
216 (formerly 110) History of Modern Psychology
262 Early Child Development
263 Psychology of Aging
264 Nature, Nurture and Human Development
266 Families, Parenting and Child 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
234Cognitive Neuroscience                                                                                                                           235 Social and Affective Neuroscience

REQUIREMENT III:  Majors are required to take any two courses at the Seminar Level (i.e., 300-level).

ICOS-202 Research Modules in Cognitive Science
301 Human Learning and Education
311 Philosophical Foundations of Psychology and Cognitive Science
312 Statistical Thinking in Psychological Research
313 Psychology of Individual and Group Differences
314 Senior Research Seminar
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

REQUIREMENT IV: Majors are required to take two additional courses from the combined offerings of core, seminar, and elective categories. Electives count toward the major but do not count toward filling the area requirements.

ICOS-201 Introduction to Cognitive Science

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 Janet Mann.