All graduate students complete the General Psychology Core, the Research Skills Core, a master's thesis and a doctoral dissertation. Cognitive Psychology students also attend a weekly research seminar and complete advanced coursework as indicated below.

General Psychology Core:

• PY650 Cognition and Learning
• PY629 Cognitive Neuroscience
• One of: PY652 Life-Span Developmental Psychology, PY672 Advanced Social Psychology 
• PY670 Perception
• PY471 History and Systems if not taken as an undergraduate

Research Skills Core:

• PY607 Research Methods in Psychology
• PY602 Advanced Statistics I
• PY603 Advanced Statistics II
• PY604 Multivariate Methods of Analysis, PY659/BER558 Psychometrics, BER646 Structural Equation Modeling, or approved alternative

Advanced Coursework:

• PY693 Seminar in Psychology (12 hours, at least 9 hours in cognitive psychology topics). Topics may include Visual Cognition, Creativity, Cognitive Development, Memory, Decision-making Cognitive Aging, etc.
• PY695 Teaching of Psychology
• Elective (3 hours, graded)
• PY625 Contemporary Issues in Cognitive Psychology (3 hours total)
• PY598 Graduate Research (3 hours)

Thesis and Dissertation Hours:

• PY599 Thesis research (6 hours)
• PY699 Dissertation research (24 hours)