Psychology Minor

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Psychology is a diverse and exciting field which currently grants advanced degrees in more than 50 areas of study. A few examples of skills a minor in psychology will potentially provide students are helping a business owner know how to deal with customer complaints, helping teachers provide classroom experience that maximize learning, training medical personnel to understand ways to help patients' comply with prescriptive advice, providing theater performers tools to improve their performances through understanding the foibles of human (mis)behavior and many others. Those who minor in psychology will learn to understand research findings and report them to others and how to accomplish systematic problem solving. The psychology minor consists of 15 credits, to be approved in consultation with the student's advisor.

Minor Requirements (15 credits):

• PSY-100 General Psychology (3 cr)
• PSY-101 Introduction to Psychological Science (3 cr)
• One of the following 200-level courses:
  • PSY-206 Social Psychology (3 cr)
  • PSY-201 Introduction to Developmental Psychology (3 cr)
  • PSY-202 Introduction to Biological Psychology (3 cr)
  • PSY-203 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (3 cr)
• Two upper-division electives. These should be courses at the 300-400 level, excluding PSY-312, PSY-313 or PSY-498. A few examples would include: 
  • PSY-301 Personality Development (3 cr)
  • PSY-330 Introduction to Neuropsychology (3 cr)
  • PSY-331 Introduction to Psychopharmacology (3 cr)
  • PSY-360 Environmental Psychology (3 cr)

• Critical Thinking
• Analytical Reasoning
• Problem Solving
• Written Communication