SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY CURRICLUM CHECKLIST

I. General Core

A. ___SOP 5053 Social Psychology (No longer offered as of 2010)

                        OR

     ___ SOP5069Personality and Social Psychology (previously PSY6919)

B. ___SOP 6920 Current Issues in Social Psychology

C. ___ One additional course from among those designated by the Psychology Department as the departmental core:

___EXP 5508 Cognition and Perception

___DEP 5165 Developmental Psychology

___EXP 5406 Conditioning and Learning

___PPE 5055 Personality Theory (No longer offered as of 2010)

___PSY 6919 Cross area seminar

___PSB 6059 Behavioral Endocrinology

___PSB 5056 Biological Psychology or PSB 5341 Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience

            or PCB 5845 Cell and Molecular Neuroscience

D. ___ Four advanced courses. These may be either seminars or regularly offered courses that are not listed as part of the department wide core (an exception is the cross area seminar, which may be counted toward this requirement if it is not used to fulfill the core requirement). SOP6939 Seminar in Social Psychology may be counted twice towards this requirement.  In addition, the Teaching Practicum may be counted as fulfilling one of the advanced courses.  Non-psychology courses need the approval of the major professor and supervisory committee.

Please list your 4 advanced courses below

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II. Research/Experiential Core

___PSY 5917r Supervised Research - 2 hours, maximum of 5 credits per degree (MS, PhD)

___PSY 5973r Master's Thesis - 6 hours minimum

___PSY 8976  Master’s Thesis defense (0 credits)

___PSY 6656r Preliminary Examination Preparation - 3 hours minimum

___PSY 8964  Preliminary Doctoral Examination (0 credits)

___PSY 6980r Dissertation - 24 hours minimum

___PSY 8985  Dissertation Defense (0 credits)

 III. Statistics/Methodology Core

Students must take three of graduate level Statistics classes.  Examples are below but additional classes can be approved by the student’s supervisory committee:

___PSY 6919 Design and Analysis in Psychology I

___PSY 6929 Design and Analysis in Psychology II

___PSY 5916 Intro to Latent Variables

___PSY 5916 Advanced Topics in Structural Equation Modeling

___PSY 5916 Developmental Methods (Hierarchical Linear Modeling)

___PSY 5916 Meta Analysis

___STA 5206 Analysis of Variance & Design of Experiments (3 hrs.)
___STA 5207 Applied Regression Methods (3 hrs.)
___STA 5507 Applied Nonparametric Statistics (3 hrs.)
___EDF 5401 General Linear Model Applications (4 hrs.)
___EDF 5402 Advanced Topics in Analysis of Variance Applications (3 hrs.)
___EDF 5406 Multivariate Analysis Applications (3 hrs.)
___EDF 5410 Nonparametric Analysis (3 hrs.)
___EDF 5411 Factor Analysis (3)

___ Other (list) __________________________

Note: none of the statistics/methodology courses can be used to substitute for an advanced psychology content course.