Major Requirements

Psychology Major Degree Requirements

All students must complete the following courses:

PY 101 General Psychology 3 hours
PY 204 Experimental Psychology 3 hours
PY 331 Social Science Research Methods 3 hours
PY 334 Applied Quantitative Data Analysis 3 hours
PY 480 Senior Thesis 3 hours

  
All students must complete a statistics course:

MA 105 Elementary Statistics 3 hours

 
All students must complete one course (3 hours) from each of the following areas:

1. Biological Area 3 hours

PY 211 Psychology of Personal Adjustment
PY 348  Health Psychology



2. Applied Area 3 hours

PY 315 Sport and Exercise Psychology
PY 338 Applied Psychology
PY 353 Industrial/Organizational Psychology

 
 
 3. Counseling, Abnormal and Personality Area 3 hours

PY 301 Abnormal Psychology
PY 308 Personality
PY 351 Introduction to Counseling

 
 4. Developmental and Social Area 3 hours

PY 223 Developmental Psychology
PY 321 Family Relationships and Values
PY 324 Social Psychology


 
5. Additional elective hours in psychology 3 hours

 

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