Psychology Major, BA, PY01

Major Code: PY01 Bachelor of Arts Summary Degree Requirements

General Education Core 42 Requirements: 33 Hours

Area 1A 6 hours Social & Behavioral Sciences - 3 hours fulfilled by PSY 0100 , 3 hours see below for options
Area 1B 3 hours Civic Engagement - see below for options
Area 2A 6 hours Written Communication - see below for options
Area 2B 3 hours Oral Communication - see below for options
Area 3 7 hours Natural Science 1 with and 1 without lab - see below for options
Area 4 3 hours Mathematics - see below for options
Area 5A 6 hours Humanites - 3 hours fulfilled by modern language course, 3 hours see below for options
Area 5B 3 hours Fine Arts - see below for options
Area 5C 3 hours Global Competencies - fulfilled by an additional modern language course
Area 5D 2 hours Health and Wellness - see below for options
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Institutional Degree Requirement: 1 Hour

UE 0100 - The University Experience 1
HNRS 0101 - Honors Forum 2 Honors students only 1 cr. hr. towards institutional requirement
BIO 0100 - Freshman Seminar 1 Yours to Lose students only

Modern Language: 10-12 Hours

French or Spanish - 12 Hours of the same prefix

Asian Languages (Chinese and Japanese) - 10-11 Hours, prefixes can be combined

JPN 0103 and JPN 0205 - 10 Hours

JPN 0103 and CHI 0103 - 10 Hours

CHI 0103 , CHI 0203 and ML 0150 - 11 Hours

Psychology Requirements: 49 Hours

Choose One: 3 Hours

Psychology Electives: 12 Hours

Psychology elective requirement will be met by completing 12 hours of additional Psychology courses, of which 6 hours must be upper-division courses, 300 level or above. No more than 3 hours of PSY 0491 and no more than 3 hours of PSY 0499 may be used to fulfill the Psychology elective requirement.

Electives: 25-27 Hours

As needed to total 120 approved credit hours (including 39 upper division 300-400 level).

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Total Hours: 120

PSY 0100 satisfies 3 of 6 hours of General Education Core Requirement area 1A.

One Modern Language course satisfies 3 of 6 hours of General Education Core Requirement area 5A. An additional Modern Language course satisfies General Education Core Requirement Area 5C.

Institutional requirement UE 0100 may also be met by HNRS 0101 (2 credit hours).

Effective fall of 2020 - in order to graduate with a major in Psychology, a student must meeet the following requirements:

Earn a 2.50 or above overall GPA.
Earn a 2.50 or above in all PSY prefix courses required within the major.