Worksheet for Psychology Majors 2004-2005
A total of 70 credits are required to attain a degree in psychology
Note Prerequisites. Before declaring the major in psychology, the student must pass PSYC 100, General Psychology, or its equivalent and have an overall grade point
average of 2.0 or better. In addition, a single foreign language (two years at the high school level or one year at the college level) is required.
A Psychology Minor of 15 Credits is also available to students pursuing other majors. Psychology 309, Scientific Principles of Psychology, and 10 hours of upper
division course work are required.
Major Requirements (70 Credits)
Required Courses: (18 Credits)
PSYC 309, Scientific Principles of
Psychology (5 Credits)
CSBS320/PSYC 310,
Psychological Statistics (5 Credits)
PSYC 313, Research Methods in
Psychology (5 Credits)
Quarter
Credit
Grade
Focused Experience Requirement (3 Credits total in any combination)
PSYC 395/495, Internship OR
PSYC 398/498, Seminar OR
PSYC 399/499, Directed Study
Total Required Courses Credits
Cluster C: Students are required to take at least one of the following courses:
(4-5 Credits)
Required (4-5 Credits)
Quarter
Credit
Grade
PSYC 317, Health Psychology
(5 Credits)
PSYC 323, Drugs and Behavior
(5 Credits)
PSYC 331, Psychology of
Women (4 Credits)
PSYC 359, Human Sexuality
(5 Credits)
PSYC 432, Clinical Psychology
of Adult Life & Aging (4 Credits)
PSYC 450, Trauma: Theory,
Assessment & Treatment
(4 Credits)
PSYC 425, Psychology and the
Legal System (5 Credits)
Total Cluster C Credits
In Addition to the above core requirements, psychology majors are required to
take a specified number of courses from three cluster/groups as follows:
Cluster A: Students are required to take at least four of the following
courses: (20 Credits)
Required (20 Credits)
Quarter
Credit
Grade
PSYC 301, Theories of Personality
(5 Credits)
PSYC 302, Abnormal Psychology
(5 Credits)
PSYC 303, Foundations of
Psychotherapy (5 Credits)
PSYC 315, Conditioning and
Learning (5 Credits)
PSYC 316, Human Memory and
Cognition (5 Credits)
PSYC 340, Emotion and
Emotional Intelligence (5 Credits)
PSYC 381, Social Psychology
(5 Credits)
PSYC 420, Biological Basis of
Behavior (5 Credits)
Total Cluster A Credits
Note: One CEDP Developmental Psychology Class may be used to count as
one of the Cluster A courses as approved by the Psychology Department
Chair. If a CEDP Developmental Psychology Class is used, the total credits
in cluster A will be 19 instead of 20.
Cluster B: Students are required to take at least two of the following courses:
(7-10 Credits)
Required (7-10 Credits)
Quarter
Credit
Grade
PSYC 431, Stress and Coping
(3 Credits)
PSYC 312, Computerized
Statistical Analysis (5 Credits)
PSYC 314, Principals of Clinical
Assessment (5 Credits)
PSYC 318, Computerized Research
Techniques in Psychology
(4 Credits)
PSYC 430, Human
Psychophysiology (5 Credits)
PSYC 440, Happiness and positive
Psychology (4 Credits)
Total Cluster B Credits
Elective Psychology Credits: The Remainder of courses required to
complete the 70 credit major may be chosen from any other psychology
courses or from any of the above courses that are not used to meet the group
requirements.
Required (12 Credits)
Quarter
Credit
Grade
Total
Elective
Credits
Psychology
Credit Summation
Required Courses: (18 Credits
Credits
Cluster A: (20 Credits)
Cluster B: (7-10 Credits)
Cluster C: (4-5 Credits)
Elective Psychology Credits: (12 Credits)
Psychology Credits: (65 Credits)
Total Credits
Note: Capstone Class: PSYC 490, The Tradition of Psychology (6 Credits),
fulfills the University Capstone requirement and may also be used as an
elective within the departments major. This IS NOT A REQUIRED
COURSE. However, it is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED and should be
done the spring quarter of your junior year or fall quarter of your senior year if
you are planning to go on to a masters or Doctorate program.
Pre-requisities for Psychology Courses
Registration can be more easily accomplished if you are aware of which courses have pre-requisites.
Completion of the pre-requisites at the beginning of your program can increase success in your future courses.
The courses listed below require completion of the itemized pre-requisites:
Psyc 303, Foundations of Psychotherapy
Psyc 301, Theories of Personality
Psyc 302, Abnormal Psychology
Psyc 430, Human Psychophysiology
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 420, Biological Basis of Behavior
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Successful completion of a 200-level English Course
Successful completion of Math 100, Basic Arithmetic for College
Students, or Mathematics clearance by test
Psyc 432, Clinical Psychology of Adult Life Aging
Psyc 100, General Psychology or Agst 310, Multidisciplinary
Studies in Aging
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Successful completion of Math 104, Intermediate Algebra, or
Mathematics clearance by test
Math 115, Mathematical Reasoning, Recommended
Psyc 312, Computerized Statistical Analysis
CPLA 120, Computer Fundementals with Programing Concepts, or
the equivalent
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 313, Research Methods in Psychology
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 314, Principals of Clinical Assessment
Psyc 301, Theories of Personality
Psyc 302, Abnormal Psychology
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 315, Conditioning and Learning
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 316, Human Memory and Cognition
Junior level standing or permission of the instructor
Psyc 317 Behavioral Health Therapy
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 318, Research Techniques in Human Cognition
CPLA 101, Computer Literacy II or the Equivalent
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 316, Human Memory and Cognition
Psyc 323, Drugs and Behavior
Psyc 100, General Psychology, recommended
Psyc 331, Psychology of Women
English 201, Principles of Effective Thinking and Writing or the
Equivalent
Psyc 358, Madness in Literature
Psyc 302, Abnormal Psychology
Psyc 381, Social Psychology
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 313, Research Methods in Psychology
Psyc 415, Sensation and Perception
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 313, Research Methods in Psychology
Psyc 420, Biological Basis of Behavior
Psyc 420, Biological Basis of Behavior
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 490, The Tradition of Psychology (Capstone)
Psyc 309, Scientific Principles of psychology
Psyc 310, Psychological Statistics
Psyc 313, Research Methods in Psychology
Psychology Course Descriptions
PSYC 100 GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
PSYC 313 RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
[SATISFIES THE GECR FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES, LIST 2, ANTHROPOLOGY,
GEOGRAPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY.]
WINTER/SPRING
Prerequisites: PSYC 309 and 310.
A general introduction to psychology as the scientific study of behavior and
thought; an overview of the areas of psychology and their development;
methods in psychology; biological, sensory, and developmental influences on
behavior; physiological and cognitive components of behavior; theories of
learning; a survey of theories of normal and abnormal behavior; principles of
psychotherapy; personality theory and testing; and social influences.
PSYC 210 CAREER DEVELOPMENT - 2 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
A resource course designed to provide information and assistance with
academic and career decision-making. Standardized interest inventories are
used as part of the information gathering process. Open to students of any
academic level.
PSYC 295 INTERNSHIP - 1-5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
Prerequisites: Prior permission of the department Internship Director and the
department chair, and the university Career Services Internship office.
Individualized learning and career development through an off-campus
internship. An internship agreement-learning contract form is required and
can be picked up prior to registration, along with information about
placements and procedures from the Career Services Internship office. Two
sections are available, one for psychology majors, one for non-psychology
majors.
An introduction to typical research methods used in psychology. Students
complete several research projects reflecting these various methods.
PSYC 314 PRINCIPLES OF CLINICAL ASSESSMENT - 5 credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 301, 302, 310.
Course is to help test users evaluate, select, construct, and administer tests,
and to interpret results. The first part of the course covers the customary
statistics of tests that determine how good they are: validity, reliability,
norms, item analysis, and selection ratios. The rest of the course presents an
overview and evaluation of major tests in each area of testing, including
personality, intelligence, ability, and occupation interest.
PSYC 315 CONDITIONING AND LEARNING - 5 credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 309.
Overview of classical and instrumental conditioning: terminology, procedures
and current findings, contemporary topics such as biological constraints and
motivation as they influence learning.
PSYC 316 HUMAN MEMORY AND COGNITION - 5 credits
FALL
Prerequisite: Junior level standing or permission of the instructor.
Examination of the principles and theories of human memory and selected
topics in cognitive psychology.
PSYC 317 HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 309.
PSYC 298/398/498 SEMINAR - 1-6 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
PSYC 299/399/499 DIRECTED STUDIES - 1-6 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
Prerequisites: Prior permission of the instructor and the department chair.
PSYC 301 THEORIES OF PERSONALITY - 5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
An objective and comprehensive study of the major theories of personality.
PSYC 302 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
Explores and evaluates research and theoretical concepts relating to deviant
and abnormal behavior.
PSYC 303 FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - 5 credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 301 and 302.
Survey of theories of psychotherapy dealing with psychopathology. Particular
attention is given to effectiveness of theory construction. Evaluates the role of
intervening variables and logical consistency.
PSYC 309 SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200-level English course and MATH
100 or Mathematics clearance by test.
The study of the methodology and attitudes of psychology irrespective of any
special area. Considers techniques for evaluating information, discovering
invalid interpretations, and uncovering alternative explanations. These are
illustrated by reading research articles and classroom discussion of the
articles and of popular beliefs.
PSYC 310 PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS - 5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
Prerequisites: Successful completion of MATH 104 or Mathematics clearance by
test required; MATH 115 recommended.
This class introduces techniques for organizing distributions, summarizing
their key properties, describing the relative standing of individual scores, and
measuring relations between pairs of variables. In the second half of the
course, hypothesis testing is examined using a variety of common parametric
and nonparametric procedures.
An examination of the psychological influences on health including both
wellness and illness; a focus on the etiology and correlates of health and
illness as well as the prevention and treatment of illness. Exploring the
psychological dynamics at work in utilization of the health care system and
patient-practitioner interactions. Specific coverage of the illness process in
pain, lung disease, stress, chronic illness, and AIDS.
PSYC 318 COMPUTERIZED RESEARCH TECHNIQUES IN PSYCHOL-OGY
- 4 credits
Prerequisites: CPLA 101 or the equivalent, PSYC 309, 310, 316.
Introduces the use of computers in psychological research through software
that inexperienced users can program by filling out forms. Hands-on
experience on the system will be acquired during the first 2-3 weeks. Recent
experimental findings in a number of research areas will be introduced.
Working individually or in small groups, students will select a problem for
study and develop a method of investigation using the software system.
PSYC 323 DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR - 5 credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 100 recommended.
An introduction to the action, use, and abuse of psychotropic agents from
analgesics to hallucinogens. Special attention given to drug abuse. (Crosslisted
ADST 300)
PSYC 331 PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN - 4 credits
[SATISFIES CULTURAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATION
REQUIREMENT.]
Prerequisite: ENGL 201 or equivalent.
The psychology of women in terms of their bodies, socialization, personality,
affiliation and achievement motivations, abnormal behavior patterns, therapy,
and personal growth needs. (Cross-listed WMST 331)
PSYC 338 DISCOVERING WOMEN IN SCIENCE - 1 credit
The course uses several scientific themes to rediscover from the past, and
find in contemporary research, the women who have made significant
contributions to science. (Cross-listed BIOL 338, CHEM 338, GEOL 338,
HIST
338, PHYS 338, WMST 338)
PSYC 340 EMOTION AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE - 5 credits
PSYC 312 COMPUTERIZED STATISTICAL ANALYSIS - 4 credits
SPRING
Prerequisites: CPLA 120 or the equivalent, PSYC 310.
An introduction to the use of the computer package SPSS in the statistical
analysis of data. Topics include describing the distribution of a single
variable, graphing variables, organizing multivariate data, and testing
hypotheses with t-tests, the analysis of variance, regression, and selected
nonparametric tests. Factor analysis and discriminant function analysis are
also introduced.
Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or equivalent.
This course explores the psychology of emotion and how emotion impacts
behavior and experience. This class investigates what emotion is, how it can
be measured, basic theories of emotion, and what factors contribute to the
different emotional states. Issues related to emotional intelligence will also
be explored, with particular emphasis on emotion identification,
understanding, and regulation.
PSYC 359 HUMAN SEXUALITY - 5 credits
Psychological, biological, and cultural perspectives of human sexual
behavior. The basis for successful functioning; frequency and significance of
various types of sexual behavior; anatomy and physiology of reproduction;
sexual inadequacy and deviations.
PSYC 381 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - 5 credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 309, 313 are recommended prior to enrollment.
Individual behavior as socially determined: interpersonal attraction,
aggressiveness, attitude formation, group dynamics, conformity, and
leadership.
PSYC 395 INTERNSHIP - 1-5 credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
Prerequisites: Prior permission of the department Internship Director and the
department chair, and the university Career Services Internship office.
Individualized learning and career development through an off-campus
internship. An internship agreement-learning contract form is required and
can be picked up prior to registration, along with information about
placements and procedures from the Career Services Internship office. Two
sections are available, one for psychology majors, one for non-psychology
majors.
PSYC 403 WOMEN AND MEN IN PSYCHOLOGY - 1 credit
PSYC 484 INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATION PSYCHOLOGY -5
credits
This course examines organizations - what they are and how they work - from
a psychological perspective. It deals with the psychological problems an
organization must deal with if it is to survive: the succession of leaders,
creating motivation for members to remain in the organization and to
perform their roles, maintaining control, managing conflict, and adapting to
the changing conditions of the external world.
PSYC 485 MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY - 4 credits
This course deals with the human problems that occur within the leadership
ranks of organizations. The aim is to help managers understand the effects of
psychological variables, e.g., personality, motivation, and learning upon
individual role performance and upon productivity of groups and systems.
PSYC 490 SENIOR CAPSTONE: THE TRADITION OF PSYCHOLOGY -6
credits
WINTER/SPRING
[SATISFIES SENIOR CAPSTONE UNIVERSITY GRADUATION REQUIREMENT.]
Prerequisites: PSYC 309, 310 and 313; PSYC 313 can be taken concurrently.
This course fulfills the University capstone requirement and may also be used
as an elective within the department’s major. The course consists of three
components: (a) the history of psychology, (b) a collaborative project, and
(c) portfolio preparation.
SUMMER
A one day workshop designed to facilitate and provide frameworks for
gender-balancing psychology curricula (materials appropriate for secondary
education and college level instruction). (Cross-listed WMST 403)
PSYC 495 INTERNSHIP - 1-15 credits
PSYC 415 SENSATION AND PERCEPTION - 5 credits
Individualized learning and career development through an off-campus
internship. An internship agreement-learning contract form is required and
can be picked up prior to registration, along with information about
placements and procedures from the Career Services Internship Office. Two
sections are available, one for psychology majors and one for non-psychology
majors.
Prerequisites: PSYC 309, 313, 420.
Phenomena of perception: hearing, vision, body perception, illusions,
sensory deprivation, sleep, hypnosis, altered perceptual states. Theoretical
and interpretations and perceptual organization.
FALL/WINTER/SPRING
Prerequisites: Prior permission of the department Internship Director and the
department chair.
PSYC 420 BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR - 5 credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 309.
PSYC 496 EXPERIMENTAL COURSE 1-5 credits
Organic foundations of behavior.
PSYC 430 HUMAN PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY - 5 credits
PSYC 497 WORKSHOPS, SHORT COURSES, CONFERENCES -15 credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 310, 420 recommended.
FALL/WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER
An overview of the following topics: automatic nervous system, biofeedback,
clinical applications, emotion, instrumentation, measurement, pain,
psychosomatic processes, sleep, social aspects of physiological processes
and stress. Laboratory includes: biofeedback, blood flow, ECG, EDR, EEG,
EMG, and respiration. Course is especially suited for students of the health
sciences.
PSYC 431 STRESS AND COPING - 3 credits
Examines the psychological, physiological, and health consequences resulting
from selected psychological and environmental stressors. Psychological
stressors include personality type, social disorganization, competition, and
conflict. Environmental stressors include cold, heat, hypo- and hyperbaric
pressures, and exercise. Examines coping responses such as biofeedback,
progressive relaxation, autogenic training, and physiological adaptation.
PSYC 432 CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF ADULT LIFE AND AGING -4
credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 100 or AGST 310.
Psychological meanings of aging in terms of personal experience with
growing older, relations with older family members, and potential
professional roles. Focus is on sensory, cognitive and personality changes,
psychopathology, and coping with death.
PSYC 450 TRAUMA: THEORY, ASSESSMENT, AND TREATMENT -4
credits
Prerequisite: Recommend PSYC 302.
This class explores traumatic experience in terms of substance, impact, and
reactions, including the assessment and treatment of trauma-related
psychopathology.
PSYC 483 GROUP DYNAMICS - 5 credits
Introduces the principles formed through scientific study of small-group
dynamics, and considers the issues and problems arising in the study of
groups. (Cross-listed CEDP 483)