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Psychology Curriculum

Our Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to begin taking your Psychology classes beginning in your first semester. In the first two years of the program, you will be immersed in a strong disciplinary foundation through a range of required courses, while still getting a strong background in liberal arts through the Core Curriculum.

All of your upper-level courses will be hands-on and more practical than those offered at our competitor schools and include professional and/or research internships. In your third and fourth years, you'll have the flexibility to choose a minor in another discipline like Environmental Policy, Legal Studies, Global Studies, Business Administration, among other minors -or dig deeper into a specific area of Psychology.

Interested in studying abroad for a semester? The Psychology faculty designed the curriculum so you can take a semester studying abroad without getting behind on required courses for your major.

Psychology Curriculum 2013 - 14

First Year

First Semester
Concepts of the Self (COR 110)
Rhetoric I (COR 115)
Introduction to Psychology (PSY 100)
Learning Exposed: Psychology (PSY 105)
Introduction to Applied Psychology (PSY 110)

Second Semester
Concepts of Community (COR 120)
Rhetoric II (COR 125)
Positive Psychology (PSY 180) Or General Elective
Cognitive Psychology (PSY 210)
Developmental Psychology (PSY 220)

Second Year

First Semester
200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Statistics (MTH 180)
Research Methods and Analysis I (PSY 201)
Abnormal Psychology (PSY 205)

Second Semester
200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
200-level COR course (COR 2XX)
Research Methods & Analysis II (PSY 202)
Social Psychology (PSY 240)
Human Biology with Lab (SCI 115L)

Third Year

First Semester
Global Studies I: Technology & Development (COR 310)
Global Studies II: Human Rights (COR 320)
Behavioral Neuroscience (PSY 340)
Choose PSY 3XX course (PSY 3XX)
Choose PSY 3XX course as elective OR General Elective Examples of PSY 3XX options: Attachment and Close Relationships (PSY 310) Personality Theories (PSY 320) Psychology and Law (PSY 330)

Second Semester
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
International Cultural Studies (COR 330)
General Elective
Choose PSY 3XX course (PSY 3XX)
Choose PSY 3XX course as elective OR General Elective Examples of PSY 3XX options: Sports Psychology (PSY 350) Media Psychology (PSY 360) Health Psychology (PSY 370) Multicultural Psychology (PSY 380)

Fourth Year

First Semester
Applied Psychology: Internship I (PSY 490)
Choose one PSY 4XX course (PSY 4XX)
Choose PSY 3XX OR PSY 4XX (PSY XXX)
Choose one PSY 3XX OR PSY 4XX course as elective OR General Elective
General Elective
Examples of PSY 4XX options: Applied Psychology: Community Activism (PSY 410) Applied Psychology: Forensic Practice (PSY 420) Applied Psychology: Healthy Aging (PSY 430)

Second Semester
College Capstone: Psychology (CCC 410-07)
Choose one PSY 4XX course (PSY 4XX)
General Elective
General Elective
Examples of PSY 4XX options: Applied Psychology: Counseling Skills (PSY 450) Applied Psychology: Healthy Organizations (PSY 460) Applied Psychology: Internship II (PSY 491)