The field of psychology is broad and relevant to a variety of disciplines. The minor is offered for those students who wish to follow a systematic plan of study in psychology while completing a major in another department. Specifically, the minor is designed to give students a broad background in psychology. As designed, the minor is flexible and should meet the needs of many students. Accordingly, students should seek advisement to determine what courses would best suit their own particular interests and needs. To fulfill the requirements of the minor, students will be required to take 21 hours in psychology to be distributed in the following manner:
A. Required Course (3 credits)
- PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology (3 credits)
B. Electives selected by advisement
1. Students must choose at least one course from three of the following four areas (9 credits)
a. Bio/Cognitive Psychology
- PSY 304 - Learning: Theory and Research
- PSY 308 - Sensation and Perception
- PSY 321 - Comparative Animal Psychology
- PSY 340 - Cognitive Psychology
b. Social/Developmental Psychology
- PSY 325 - Social Behavior
- PSY 327 - Adult Development and Aging I
- PSY 355 - Life-span Developmental Psychology
- PSY 356 - Child Development
- PSY 357 - Adolescent and Young Adult Development
- PSY 370 - Environmental Psychology I
c. Clinical/Applied Psychology
- PSY 310 - Behavior Modification
- PSY 311 - Personality: Theory and Research
- PSY 365 - Workplace Psychology
- PSY 367 - Organizational Psychology
- PSY 375 – Forensic Psychology
- PSY 376 - Health Psychology
d. Statistics
- PSY 306 - Statistics in Psychological Research
2. Students must complete two courses from the following (6 credits)
- PSY 404 - Theories of Learning
- PSY 411 - Abnormal Psychology
- PSY 412 - Community Psychology
- PSY 415 - Competent Infant
- PSY 416 - Abnormal Child Psychology
- PSY 417 - Atypical Infant
- PSY 421 - Physiological Psychology
- PSY 427 - Adult Development and Aging II
- PSY 430 - Psycholinguistics: Language Structures and Processes
- PSY 432 - Human Motivation and Emotion
- PSY 441 - Introduction to Neuropsychology
- PSY 450 – Research Methods
- PSY 466 - Personnel Psychology
- PSY 470 - Environmental Psychology II
- PSY 471 - History and Systems of Psychology
- PSY 480 - Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, & Procedures
- PSY 481 - Psychological Tests and Measurements
3. Any Additional three hours of psychology at the 300-400 level (3 credits)
TOTAL REQUIRED CREDITS 21
Note: PSY 306 - Statistics in Psychological Research and PSY 450 – Research Methods are highly recommended for students planning to go to graduate school in Psychology or a related field.