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Guidelines for Advising the Experimental Psychology Concentration (2007/2008 to 2011/2012)
Core Requirements (8 credit hours)
PSY 301 Orientation and Entrance Assessment
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(Required in first semester of upper division enrollment)
PSY 302 Research Methods in Psychology
PSY 471 Senior Seminar
(Prerequisites: PSY 302, all core concentration courses and senior status)
Total Hours of Psychology Core:
8
Core Concentration Courses (20 credit hours)
PSY 303 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (required)
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Choose four courses from the following thirteen choices:
PSY 311 Cognitive Psychology, PSY 313W Critical Thinking, PSY 314 Sensation and Perception, PSY
315W Psychoactive Drugs, PSY 321W Life-Span Developmental Psychology, PSY 331 Social Psychology,
PSY 351W Abnormal Psychology, PSY 412 Introduction to Biopsychology, PSY 413W Psychology of
Learning and Memory, PSY 416 Psychology of Motivation, PSY 417 Perceptual Learning, PSY 441W
Theories of Personality, PSY 458 Psychological Tests & Measurement
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Total Hours of Core Concentration:
20
Relevant Psychology Electives (8 credit hours) *Any 300- or 400-level psychology course at UIS can be used
toward this requirement.
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Minimum Total Hours of Psychology Electives:
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8
General Elective Requirements (minimum of 11 credit hours)
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Minimum Total Hours of General Electives:
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11
ECCE Requirements (a course from each category must be taken for a minimum of 13 credit hours)
U.S. Communities
Global Awareness
Engagement Experience
ECCE Elective
Speakers Series
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UNI 301
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(Note: Freshman at UIS should have also taken a Comparative Societies Humanities and a Comparative Societies Social Science
course. TEP minors only need to complete the U.S. Communities, Global Awareness, and Speaker Series courses.).
Minimum Total Hours of ECCE Requirements:
Minimum Total Hours:
13
60
University requirements for graduation: completion of major requirements, 120 credit hours total (at least 30 from UIS), 48 upper division
credit hours, completion of General Education and ECCE requirements, a 2.0 GPA, and completed graduation contract.