General Education | 30-40 |
Required Core Courses for Degree | 36-43 |
Psychology Core | 12-13 |
| PSY100 Introduction to Psychology (includes natural science lab) This course provides an introduction to the principles and content areas of the science of psychology. As an introduction to psychology online course, the focus is on the philosophy and methodology of science, using selected problems from psychology as examples for application and demonstration. The course includes laboratory experience. | 4 |
| PSY160 Seminar for Psychology Majors This seminar provides an introduction to psychology careers, jobs in psychology and the areas of research in the field of psychology | 1 |
| PSY201 Psychological Research 1: Statistical Applications This course provides an interpretation and application of basic descriptive statistics and an introduction to statistical inference, including correlations, chi square and analysis of variance. The course includes coverage of basic research designs. Statistical software used for computation work as a laboratory experience | 4 |
| PSY202 Psychological Research 2: Experimental Design and Methodology This course provides an introduction to the methods and designs used to acquire knowledge in different types of research in psychology, including causal research (controlled experimental research) and non-causal research (survey, correlation and naturalistic observation). The course also includes empirical studies conducted in a laboratory experience. | 4 |
| PSY489 Graduate Assessment for Psychology Majors (taken when graduating) All graduating students must take the psychology exam as part of the Department of Psychological Science’s outcomes assessment effort. The two hour test will be given at multiple times during each semester. | 0 |
| Breadth Areas in Psychology | 16 |
| PSY210 Lifespan Developmental Psychology This course focuses on lifespan psychology. This area of development psychology applies knowledge from psychology to better understand the needs and critical issues facing humans from conception through old age and death. | 4 |
| PSY220 Social Psychology This course focuses on social psychology theories. Topics covered include social facilitation, interpersonal attraction, group processes, leader behavior, attitude measurement and attitude change, inter-group conflict, helping behavior psychology and environmental psychology. The course includes both field and laboratory research. | 4 |
| PSY230 Learning and Cognition This course surveys primary aspects of human learning and human cognition, including stimulus conditioning, complex reasoning, and decision making. | 4 |
| PSY251 Topics on Brain and Behavior This course focuses on the study of biological bases of human behavior with an emphasis on the major areas of study in this field. Topics include the relationship between central nervous system anatomy and physiology to sensation and perception, movement, emotion, motivation, and neuropsychological disorders. | 4 |
| Mental Health / Pre-Clinical Psychology Concentration | 14 |
| PSY 240 Abnormal Psychology This courses provides an examination of disordered behavior or dysfunctional behavior, mental illness and the perspectives through which they may be understood, in the context of relevant theory, research and treatment techniques. | 4 |
| PSY 460C Practicum / Research: Mental Health / Pre-Clinical Psychology This course offers students a supervised practicum or research experience in mental health psychology/ pre-clinical psychology. | 2 |
| Choose two of the following: | 8 |
| PSY 340 The Ethics and Practice of Clinical Psychology This course provides an introduction to the field of clinical psychology. Topics in the course cover many clinical psychology issues, including the history of clinical work, the American Psychological Association code of ethics, current professional issues, educational requirements, training, assessment procedures and therapeutic interventions. | 4 |
| PSY 342 Health Psychology This course examines the relationships of social, biological, behavior, and cognitive factors that affect physical health and mental health. Topics include health promotion and illness prevention, medical treatment factors, stress management and coping, psychosocial adjustment for serious health problems, and lifestyle factors. | 4 |
| PSY 457 Psychopharmacology This course provides students advanced coverage of psychoactive drugs used for recreational or therapeutic purposes. The major topics covered in the course include basic pharmacology, psychoactive drug effects on the nervous system functioning and behavior, recreational drugs, and pharmacotherapeutic drugs. | 4 |
| PSY 325 Psychology of Personality This course covers the basic principles of personality in psychology, including the development, assessment and modification of personality. The course also includes a description and analysis of major personality theories. | 4 |
| PSY 350 Neuropsychology This course focuses on the relationship between brain mechanisms and neurocognitive theory. Students develop an understanding of human psychological functions such as human memory, human language, cognition and emotion, as well as the study of how these functions become impaired as a consequence of brain damage or other neurological disorders. | 4 |
| PSY 444 Psychology of Nature and Wellness This course explores the neurological, cognitive, developmental and social psychological approaches to evaluating the health benefits of being in nature. These include nature’s impact on mental health and the impact of exposure to natural environments on human wellness outcomes. | 4 |
| PSY 445 Positive Psychology This course provides a combination of theoretical and practical applications of positive psychology. This course includes a focus on the background and history of positive psychology theory, and includes research, experience, and application of positive psychology. | 4 |
