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New York University
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Psychology (BA)

The Department of Psychology at NYU approaches the study of mind and behavior from many perspectives. Cognitive psychologists focus on perception, memory, attention, language, and thinking. Social and personality psychologists determine how social beliefs, attitudes, and decisions are formed and maintained. Cognitive neuroscientists study features and functions in the brain as they relate to certain mental processes. Developmental psychologists seek to understand factors that affect and influence individuals across various ages. These many perspectives are reflected in undergraduate course offerings, all of which emphasize the scientific basis of psychology.


In addition to its course offerings, the department encourages advanced undergraduates to become involved in faculty research through the Research Experiences and Methods course and the honors program. Highly qualified students are admitted to the honors program in their sophomore or junior year, take honors seminars, participate in primary research, and write an honors research thesis under close faculty supervision.


NYU Psychology majors graduate with an excellent academic foundation in psychology and are well-prepared for graduate study in the field. Graduates are accepted by top programs throughout the country. Others go on to careers in law, business, medicine, and education.


Honors Program

The honors program provides students majoring in Psychology an opportunity to engage in closely supervised yet independent research and scholarship. Honors prepares students for graduate-level work in psychology or such related professional fields as business, law, or medicine. The year-long program provides students with experiences and skills that may help them attain their career objectives. Students apply for admission to the honors program in their sophomore or junior year, with occasional exceptions for late transfer students. Admission is based on a minimum overall and major GPA of 3.65 and the ability to benefit from a program that emphasizes independent research projects and research seminars.


Honors students take the 8-credit Honors Seminar sequence in either their junior or senior year: PSYCH-UA 200 Honors Seminar in the fall and PSYCH-UA 201 Honors Seminar II in the spring. Both courses can be counted as advanced electives. An honors research thesis, usually an expansion of an ongoing research project in a faculty laboratory, is submitted for faculty approval near the end of the student's junior or senior year.


Admissions

New York University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions supports the application process for all undergraduate programs at NYU. For additional information about undergraduate admissions, including application requirements, see the relevant university resources.


Program Requirements

The major in Psychology requires ten 4-credit courses (40 credits) as outlined below, which must be completed with a grade of C or higher (courses graded Pass/Fail do not count). Advanced standing credit may be applied to both or either of PSYCH-UA 1 Intro to Psychology and PSYCH-UA 10 Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences. One course cannot be used to satisfy two major requirements.


  • General Education Requirements:
    • First-Year Seminar
    • EXPOS-UA 1: Writing as Inquiry
    • Foreign Language (satisfied upon successful completion through the Intermediate level)
    • Physical Science
    • Life Science
    • Texts and Ideas
    • Cultures and Contexts
    • Expressive Culture
  • Major Requirements:
    • PSYCH-UA 1: Intro to Psychology
    • Select one of the following statistics courses:
      • PSYCH-UA 10: Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences
      • PSYCH-UA 11: Statistics and Data Analysis for Research in Psychology
    • Select EITHER one of the following additional quantitative courses:
      • PSYCH-UA 8: Data Literacy for Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 10: Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences
      • PSYCH-UA 11: Statistics and Data Analysis for Research in Psychology
    • OR one quantitative advanced elective, chosen from:
      • DS-UA 112: Principles of Data Science II
      • PSYCH-UA 60: Illusions to Inference
      • PSYCH-UA 300/NEURL-UA 302: Spec Topics Psych: (Computational Neuroscience: From Channels to Networks)
      • PSYCH-UA 300/NEURL-UA 302: Spec Topics Psych: (Computational Neuroscience: From Populations to Behavior)
      • PSYCH-UA 300: Spec Topics Psych: (Computer Programming for the Psychological Sciences)
      • PSYCH-UA 300: Spec Topics Psych: (Decision Making)
    • Select two courses from Core A (psychology as a natural science):
      • PSYCH-UA 22: Perception
      • PSYCH-UA 25: Cognitive Neuroscience
      • PSYCH-UA 29: Cognition
      • PSYCH-UA 34: Developmental Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 35: Social Neuroscience
    • Select two courses from Core B (psychology as a social science):
      • PSYCH-UA 30: Personality
      • PSYCH-UA 32: Social Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 34: Developmental Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 35: Social Neuroscience
    • Select one laboratory course from Core C:
      • PSYCH-UA 39: Lab in Personality & Social Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 40: Lab in Developmental Psychology
      • PSYCH-UA 42: Lab in Infancy Research
      • PSYCH-UA 46: Lab in Cognition and Perception
      • PSYCH-UA 53: Psychological Science and Society Lab
    • Electives:
      • Select two advanced major electives:
        • DS-UA 112: Principles of Data Science II
        • PSYCH-UA 2: Teaching in Psychology
        • PSYCH-UA 27 & LING-UA 3: Language and Mind
        • PSYCH-UA 48: Linguistics as Cognitive Science
        • PSYCH-UA 51: Abnormal Psychology
        • PSYCH-UA 56: Psycholinguistics
        • PSYCH-UA 59: First Language Acquisition
        • PSYCH-UA 60: Illusions to Inference
        • PSYCH-UA 62: Industrial Organizat'L Psychology
        • PSYCH-UA 74: Motivation and Volition
        • PSYCH-UA 75: Political Psychology
        • PSYCH-UA 79: Experiments in Beauty
        • PSYCH-UA 81: Clinical Psychology
        • PSYCH-UA 300/NEURL-UA 302: Spec Topics Psych: (Computational Neuroscience: From Channels to Networks)
        • PSYCH-UA 300/NEURL-UA 302: Spec Topics Psych: (Computational Neuroscience: From Populations to Behavior)
        • PSYCH-UA 300: Spec Topics Psych: (Computer Programming for the Psychological Sciences)
        • PSYCH-UA 300: Spec Topics Psych: (Decision Making)
        • PSYCH-UA 300: Spec Topics Psych: (Special Topics in Psychology - Topics Vary)

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates

Certain courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Science are open to junior or senior Psychology majors who have:


  1. permission of their undergraduate Psychology adviser,
  2. permission of the Department of Psychology (graduate division),
  3. the additional specific prerequisites listed for each course, and
  4. permission of the instructor.

Sample Plan of Study

  • 1st Semester/Term:
    • PSYCH-UA 1: Intro to Psychology
    • Foreign Language
    • First-Year Seminar
    • Texts and Ideas
  • 2nd Semester/Term:
    • PSYCH-UA 10 or PSYCH-UA 11: Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences or Statistics and Data Analysis for Research in Psychology
    • EXPOS-UA 1: Writing as Inquiry
    • Foreign Language
    • Cultures and Contexts
  • 3rd Semester/Term:
    • One Additional Quantitative Course or One Quantitative Advanced Elective
    • Core A (Psychology as a Natural Science) Course 1 of 2
    • Foreign Language
    • Physical Science
  • 4th Semester/Term:
    • Core A Course 2 of 2
    • Core B (Psychology as a Social Science) Course 1 of 2
    • Foreign Language
    • Life Science
  • 5th Semester/Term:
    • Core B Course 2 of 2
    • Core C (Laboratory) Course
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
  • 6th Semester/Term:
    • Advanced Elective 1 of 2
    • Expressive Culture
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
  • 7th Semester/Term:
    • Advanced Elective 2 of 2
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
  • 8th Semester/Term:
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective
    • Degree Elective

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of program requirements, students are expected to have acquired:


  1. An overview of the field of psychology with detailed exposure to a selected and balanced representation of quantitative, theoretical, and factual topics.
  2. The academic foundations required for critical analysis and independent thinking.
  3. The ability to understand and communicate scientific and quantitative information.
  4. An understanding of and ability to apply the scientific method as related to psychological research, including quantitative tools, techniques, and analyses, comprehending the content of primary journal articles, and research methodology.
  5. An understanding of psychology as both a theoretical and empirical science.

Policies

Program Policies

General Policies

  1. To declare a major in Psychology, students must first earn a grade of C or better in PSYCH-UA 1 Intro to Psychology.
  2. PSYCH-UA 34 Developmental Psychology and PSYCH-UA 35 Social Neuroscience can be selected by a student to count as either a Core A or Core B requirement (but not both).
  3. Credit toward the major is not granted for courses completed with a grade of less than C, or for courses taken on a Pass/Fail basis.

Advanced Placement in Psychology and Statistics

Entering students with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP exam in Psychology receive credit for PSYCH-UA 1 Intro to Psychology and may count it as one of the ten courses required for the major. The same policy applies to students with International Baccalaureate credit (a score of 6 or 7, HL only) or A-Level credit (a grade of B or higher) in Psychology.


Entering students with a score of 4 or 5 on the AP exam in Statistics receive credit for PSYCH-UA 10 Statistics for The Behavioral Sciences and may count this toward the major's statistics requirement.


NYU Policies

University-wide policies can be found on the New York University Policy pages.


College of Arts and Science Policies

A full list of relevant academic policies can be found on the CAS Academic Policies page.


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