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Major Requirements – 63 Total Credits

Introductory Course – Required 6 credits

This requirement may be waived if the student received an AP score of 4 or 5 or a higher level IB score of 6 or 7.

Measurement & Methods Course and Lab – Required 8 credits

  • PSYC 200: Measurement and Data Analysis in Psychology
  • PSYC 201: Measurement and Data Analysis Lab

Ideally to be taken during the sophomore or junior year.

Group Core Courses – Required 24 credits

Courses cannot count in two groups.

Biological and Behavioral Processes Group – (6 credits)

  • PSYC 210: Psychology of Learning and Memory (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 214: Neuropsychology of Aging
  • PSYC 216: Behavioral Neuroscience (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 218: Hormones, Brain, and Behavior
  • PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 263: Sleep and Dreaming
  • PSYC 267: Clinical Neuroscience

Cognitive Studies Group – (6 credits)

  • CGSC 232: Cognitive Processes
  • CGSC 236: Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making (not offered 2025-26)
  • MUSC 227: Perception and Cognition of Music (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 220: Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 232: Cognitive Processes
  • PSYC 234: Psychology of Language (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 238: Memory Processes

Social Behavior, Development and Personality Group – (6 credits)

  • PSYC 244: Positive Psychology (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 246: Human Sexuality
  • PSYC 248: Cross-Cultural Psychology (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 250: Developmental Psychology (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 251: Lifespan Development
  • PSYC 252: Personality
  • PSYC 254: Psychopathology
  • PSYC 256: Social Behavior and Interpersonal Processes (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 258: Social Cognition (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 260: Health Psychology
  • PSYC 264: Relationship Science

Other Group Course – (6 credits)

Any course from the above courses listed in the groups.

Laboratory Courses – Required 4 credits

Two laboratory courses in addition to PSYC 201: Measurement and Data Analysis Lab.

  • CGSC 233: Laboratory in Cognitive Processes
  • MUSC 228: Perception and Cognition of Music Lab (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 211: Laboratory Research Methods in Learning and Memory (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 215: Neuropsychology of Aging Lab Practicum
  • PSYC 217: Laboratory Research Methods in Behavioral Neuroscience (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 219: Laboratory Research Methods in Hormones, Brain, and Behavior
  • PSYC 233: Laboratory in Cognitive Processes
  • PSYC 235: Psychology of Language Laboratory (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 253: Research Methods in Personality
  • PSYC 257: Laboratory Research Methods in Social Behavior and Interpersonal Processes (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 259: Laboratory Research Methods in Social Cognition (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 261: Health Psychology Lab
  • PSYC 265: Relationship Science Lab

Upper-level Courses – Required 12 credits

  • CGSC 382: Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescents (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 318: Psychopharmacology (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 354: Counseling Psychology
  • PSYC 358: Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Psychopathology (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 366: Cognitive Neuroscience
  • PSYC 370: Behavioral Neuroimmunology
  • PSYC 375: Language and Deception
  • PSYC 382: Topics in Social and Personality: Endings (not offered 2025-26)
  • PSYC 384: Psychology of Prejudice
  • PSYC 386: Intervention Science: Using Psychology to Advance Social Good
  • PSYC 389: LGBTQ+ Psychology
  • PSYC 394: Directed Research in Psychology

Only one of which may be PSYC 318: Psychopharmacology (not offered 2025-26), PSYC 354: Counseling Psychology or PSYC 358: Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Psychopathology (not offered 2025-26).

Senior Capstone Seminar – Required 6 credits

Senior Integrative Exercise – Required 3 credits

Additional Departmental Notes

Particular courses in biology, education, linguistics, mathematics and computer science, economics, philosophy, and sociology may also be recommended, depending on an individual’s interests and plans.

Majors will take the capstone seminar during the fall term of their senior year and their integrative exercise during the winter term of their senior year.