The 41 hours must include:

• PSYC 140 - Introduction to Statistics
• PSYC 220 - Psychology of Human Development
• PSYC 272 - Psychological Research Methods I

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• PSYC 273 - Psychological Research Methods II or
• BIOL 205 - Research Methods in the Natural Sciences*  

• *All Psychology majors must take the PSYC 273 exam for assessment, regardless of the course selected.

• PSYC 330 - Psychology of Learning or
• PSYC 333 - Human Memory and Cognition

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• PSYC 312 - Cultural Psychology or
• PSYC 351 - Social Psychology

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• PSYC 342 - Psychology of Personality or
• PSYC 344 - Abnormal Psychology or
• PSYC 380 - Introduction to Counseling and Guidance

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• PSYC 410 - Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity
• PSYC 440 - Neuroscience and Physiological Psychology
• PSYC 480 - Senior Seminar in Psychology

Additional Information/Electives

In addition to traditional course offerings, the department provides opportunities for practica in applied settings, participation in faculty research projects, and independent study of advanced topics.

Psychology majors must take at least twelve hours of electives chosen from 300- or 400-level psychology courses. A maximum of six of these upper-level hours may be PSYC 420 - Research Practicum  and a maximum of three may be PSYC 430 - Psychology Practicum . Students may earn a cumulative maximum of twelve credits of PSYC 420, six of which may be counted toward the psychology major and the other six toward overall graduation requirements.

Students planning for graduate study in psychology are advised to take as many upper-level psychology electives as their schedules permit and as their particular areas of anticipated graduate study dictate.