Psychology   

Undergraduate Program: Psychology Major

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Psychology Major
Bachelor of Arts Degree		Bachelor of Science Degree
General Education requirements (with eight credits of foreign language)	50	General Education requirements (with no foreign language credit)	42
Requirements for major	36	Requirements for major	36
Minor requirements	18-21	Minor requirements	18-21
University electives	23-26	University electives	25-28
Total hours required for graduation*	127-133	Total hours required for graduation*	124-127

*A minimum of 124 credit hours are required. Each Psychology Major must complete the Senior Assignment as partial fulfillment of his/her degree.

All psychology majors must complete the following:

Required Courses (36 credit hours)

All of these courses: (21 credit hours)
PSYC 111: Foundation of Psychology (3)
PSYC 200: Careers in Psychology (3)
PSYC 206: Social Psychology (3)
PSYC 208: Cognitive Psychology (3)
PSYC 220: Research Design and Statistics I (3)
PSYC 221: Research Design and Statistics II (3)
PSYC 494 Capstone Seminar In Psychology (3)

One of these courses: (3 credit hours)
PSYC 201: Child Psychology (3)
PSYC 203: Adolescent Psychology (3)
PSYC 204: Adult Development and Aging (3)

And four psychology electives (12 credit hours)
12 hours of PSYC electives at the 300- or 400-level are required, with at least 6 hours at the 400-level

NOTES:

• PSYC 111, 220, 221, and 494 must be taken in sequence.
• PSYC 494, which fulfills the university's senior assignment requirement, must be taken while of senior standing (90 hours or more).
• Students may count no more than 6 credit hours of PSYC 491 (Research in Psychology), Psyc 492 (Readings in Psychology) and Psyc 493 (Field Study in Psychology) toward their degree requirements (although additional hours of these courses can count toward general education Electives).
• All psychology majors must take PSYC 494 at SIUE unless they are members of the university’s URCA associate program (not the URCA assistant program), in which case their URCA associate project will count as their senior assignment project and the PSYC 494 requirement is waived.
• Many required courses are also offered in the summer. Taking summer courses often makes it easier to graduate on time.

Transfer Credits:

Approval of transfer credits is subject to receipt of the student's official transcript. Community College transfer students must complete at least 15 hours of 300- and 400-level courses at SIUE (or another accredited institution and SIUE combined). Accredited four-year institution transfer students must complete at least 12 hours at SIUE. PSYC 220 and PSYC 221 may not be transferred to satisfy SIUE Psychology requirements unless the student is a transfer student just beginning the curriculum (in which case the comparability of previous statistics and research methods courses will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis).

Grade Requirements:

Except for incoming freshmen, to be admitted to the psychology program as a major, students must have at least a 2.25 grade point average overall at the University. Students who fail to maintain at least a 2.25 grade point average at the University will not be allowed to take additional psychology courses until the grade point requirement is met. Students remaining below a 2.25 grade point average for two consecutive terms will be dropped from the psychology program. A grade of C or better is required for a psychology course to count toward the major requirements. In addition, a student will be dropped from the psychology program after two unsuccessful attempts to complete a single psychology course counting toward the major requirements. Unsuccessful attempts are defined as receiving the grades of W, WF, WP, WR, UW, U, D, or F in a class.

Recommended Electives:

• To prepare for any kind of employment with your bachelor's degree, Psyc 493 (Field Study in Psychology) is strongly recommended.
• To prepare for work in mental health or community service agencies consider taking Psychopathology, Clinical Psychology, Group Dynamics and Individual Behavior and Field Study in Psychology.
• To prepare for work in business/organizational settings consider taking Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Personnel Psychology,  Group Dynamics and Individual Behavior and Field Study in Psychology.
• To prepare for research-focused graduate study consider taking Physiological Psychology, History and Systems, Research in Psychology and any advanced courses in your specific area of interest. Also consider applying to the honors academy.
• To prepare for graduate study in school psychology consider taking Child Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Psychological Tests and Measures, Psychopathology and Research in Psychology. Field Study in Psychology (in a setting involving young people) is also recommended.
• To prepare for graduate study in clinical/counseling psychology consider taking Physiological Psychology, Psychological Tests and Measures, Psychopathology, Theories of Personality and Research in Psychology. Field Study in Psychology (in a mental health setting) is also recommended.
• To prepare for graduate study in industrial/organizational psychology consider taking Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Group Dynamics and Individual Behavior, Personnel Psychology, Psychological Tests and Measures and Research in Psychology. Field Study in Psychology (in an organizational setting) is also recommended.