Program Overview

Bachelor of Science in Psychology

The Bachelor of Science in Psychology is designed to offer students a more extensive scientific program that may better prepare them for graduate study or employment in research fields. Students interested in mathematics-based or physiology-based areas of psychology have the opportunity to develop more breadth and depth in the fields that complement their area of interest within psychology.

Prescribed Work

• Writing and Literature: English 316L, 316M, 316N, or 316P
• Foreign language/culture: Students must complete one of the following options:
  • Second-semester-level proficiency, or the equivalent, in a foreign language.
  • First-semester-level proficiency, or the equivalent, in a foreign language and a three-semester-hour course in the culture of the same language area.
  • Two three-hour foreign culture courses chosen from a list available in the college’s Student Division and the Department of Psychology.
• Social science: Three semester credit hours in a social science field, in addition to the course taken to satisfy the Social and Behavioral Science requirement of the Core Curriculum.
• Mathematics and natural science: At least 25 semester hours of coursework as outlined below.
  • Mathematics 408C or 408K or a more advanced calculus course
  • Psychology 317L
  • 16 to 18 hours, consisting of two of the following sequences:
    • Biology 311C, 311D, and 325
    • Chemistry 301, 302, and 204
    • Physics 317K, 105M, 317L, and 105N; or 301, 101L, 316, and 116L; or 303K, 105M, 303L, and 105N; or 302K, 105M, 302L, and 105N
  • One of the following:
    • Three additional hours in mathematics.
    • Three hours in biology, chemistry, or physics.
• Cultural expression, human experience, and thought: Three semester hours of approved coursework.

Major Requirements

• Twenty-eight semester hours of psychology, at least 19 of which must be upper-division, including Psychology 301, 317L, and 420M with a grade of at least C in each.
• At least three hours in each of the following three areas:
  • Clinical/social/developmental/evolutionary psychology
  • Cognition/language
    euroscience/perception
  • Multicultural/diversity/inclusion in the behavioral sciences

Minors

• Students must also fulfill the requirements of a minor.
• There are three types of minor:
  • A minor offered by a department or center
  • A Liberal Arts multi-disciplinary minor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • A Liberal Arts multi-disciplinary minor in the Humanities
• At least nine of the hours required for the minor must include coursework not used to satisfy the requirements of the student's major.

Electives

• In addition to the core curriculum, prescribed work, major, and minor, the student must complete enough elective coursework to provide the 120 semester hours required for the degree.
• These 120 hours may include no more than 12 hours of conference courses and internship courses combined, 12 hours of Bible courses, nine hours of designated coursework in air force science, military science, or naval science, except for students enrolled in the Military Leadership minor, 16 hours completed on the pass/fail basis, 39 hours in any one field of study in the College of Liberal Arts or the College of Natural Sciences, and 36 hours in any other single college or school of the University.