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This recommended four-year plan is designed to provide a guide and framework for students to help them complete their degrees within four years.听 This guide illustrates a generally recommended sequence and arrangement of courses.听 Please use this guide to help you think through your plan.听 All students must meet with their Major Advisor to develop a more individualized plan to complete their degree.听 This plan assumes that no remedial courses are required.听 If remedial courses are needed, students may have additional requirements to fulfill which are not listed in the plan, and degree completion may take longer.
NOTE: This recommended Four-Year Plan is applicable to students admitted into the major during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Please be sure to read the full narrative text, below the four year plan template which follows here, to get a stronger sense of how the program is organized as well as how to proceed effectively through the Psychology Program.
First Year
Fall Semester
- Gen Ed: INTD 101 - FIRST YEAR SEMINAR (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed/School Core – SOCIAL SCIENCE INQUIRY (HRS 4)
- School Core: Sustainability, Society and Civic Mindedness: Intro Course Outside of Major – PSYC 101 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Recommended (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: CRWT 102 - CRITICAL READING AND WRITING II (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Gen Ed: QUANTITATIVE REASONING – (Preferred) MATH 108 - ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES formerly known as听STUDIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES听 AIID 201 - STUDIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (HRS 4)
- Major: NEUR 201 - INTRO TO NEUROSCIENCE (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH SS1 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 1 FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMAN SERVICES
- Total: (HRS 16)
Second Year
Fall Semester
- Major: BIOL 111 - FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY I LECTURE (HRS 4)
- Major: BIOL 111L - FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY I LAB (HRS 1)
- Gen Ed: Scientific Reasoning/Major: CHEM 116 - GENERAL CHEMISTRY I LECTURE – Prerequisite for CHEM 117 (HRS 4)
- Gen Ed: Scientific Reasoning/Major: CHEM 116L - GENERAL CHEMISTRY I LAB – Prerequisite for CHEM 117L (HRS 1)
- Gen Ed: GLOBAL AWARENESS (HRS 4)
- **Gen Ed: Distribution Category (Choose one): CULTURE AND CREATIVITY, OR SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY – recommended PSYC 226 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR VALUES AND ETHICS – recommended PSYC 206 - ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY (HRS 4)
- Career Pathways: PATH SS2 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 2 FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMAN SERVICES
- Total: (HRS 18)
Spring Semester
- Major: PSYC 242 - STATISTICS (HRS 4)
- School Core: SOSC 235 - HISTORY OF SOCIAL THOUGHT (HRS 4)
- Major: BIOL 113 - FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY II LEC (HRS 4)
- Major: BIOL 113L - FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOLOGY II LAB (HRS 1)
- Major: CHEM 117 - GENERAL CHEMISTRY II LECTURE (HRS 4)
- Major: CHEM 117L - GENERAL CHEMISTRY II LAB (HRS 1)
- Career Pathways: PATH SS3 - CAREER PATHWAYS MODULE 3 FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMAN SERVICES
- Total: (HRS 18)
Third Year
Fall Semester
- Major: NEUR 305 - RESEARCH METHODS IN NEUROSCIENCE (HRS 4)
- Major: Neuro Elective Pick 1 (HRS 4)
- 听Major: Psychology Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Spring Semester
- Major: Neuro Elective Pick 1 (HRS 4)
- **Gen Ed: Distribution Category (Choose one): CULTURE AND CREATIVITY, OR SYSTEMS, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETY – recommended PSYC 226 - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR VALUES AND ETHICS – recommended PSYC 206 - ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY (Must be outside of SSHS)听(HRS 4)
- Major: NEUR 375 - JUNIOR NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE听(HRS 2)
- Major: Biology Elective (HRS 4-5)
- Total: (HRS 14-15)
Fourth Year
Fall Semester
- Major: Neuro Elective – Pick 1 (HRS 4)
- Major: NEUR 475 - SENIOR NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (HRS 2)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 14)
Spring Semester
- Major: NEUR 4xx - Capstone听(HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective or NEUR 485 - 听(HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- General Elective: Elective (HRS 4)
- Total: (HRS 16)
Total Credits Required: 128 credits
GPA Required: 2.0 听听WI: Writing Intensive courses needed prior to graduation
**Gen Ed Distribution Categories: two of the three categories are required with 1 course from outside of academic school.
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