Advanced Placement: A score of 4 or 5 in Psychology earns college credit and counts toward the social science common area requirement. Students with AP credit in psychology are awarded advanced standing in the psychology curriculum and credit toward the psychology major. Students with AP credit in Psychology who choose to enroll in PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology, will forfeit their AP credit and should contact their class dean.
Majors: Students with no Psychology AP credit who are interested in psychology should enroll in PSYC 100 Introduction to Psychology, in the fall or spring of their first year. Students with AP credit in psychology are eligible to enroll in selected 200 level courses, as specified on the First Year website.
Advisory Note: To declare a psychology major, students must be enrolled in or have completed PSYC 100 or the equivalent. A minimum grade of a C is required to continue in the major. All students who wish to major in psychology must complete PSYC 200 - Statistics and Psychology 201 - Research Methods by the end of their third year. Consequently, if a student wants to study abroad during their third year, it is imperative that they declare their psychology major early so they can take Psychology 200 and PSYC 201 in their second year.
Courses
PSYC 100
Introduction to Psychology
Common Area: Social Science
An introduction to the principles of psychology emerging from the areas of physiological, sensation and perception, development, learning, cognition, and memory, social, personaLiteraturey, and abnormal. Required for the psychology major.
PSYC 236
Cognition and Memory
Common Area: Natural Science
Examines current perspectives on how a physical system can have intelligence and know its world. Historial Studiesorical, cognitive science (computer metaphor) and connectionist perspectives will be surveyed. Of interest is how we can model cognitive 'machinery' and how this machinery produces such phenomena as attention, pattern recognition, and information storage. One unit.
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