Social Psychology Curriculum
All graduate students complete the General Psychology Core, the Research Skills Core, a master's thesis and a doctoral dissertation. Social 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: PY670 Perception, PY652 Life-Span Developmental Psychology
- PY672 Advanced Social Psychology
- 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, PY693 statistics topics, or approved alternative statistics course (must be individually approved in advance by the Graduate Statistics Committee)
Advanced Coursework:
- PY693 Seminar in Psychology (12 hours, at least 9 on social psychology topics). Prerequisite: PY 672. Topics may include Attitudes and Persuasion; Social
Cognition; Interpersonal Relationships; Implicit Social Cognition;
Health Psychology; Media Psychology; Applied Social Psychology Research
Methods; Group Processes; Social-Clinical Interface, etc.
- PY695 Teaching of Psychology
- Elective (3 hours, graded)
- PY625 Contemporary Issues in Social Psychology (3 hours total)
- PY698 Graduate Research (3 hours)
Thesis and Dissertation Hours:
- PY599 Thesis research (6 hours)
- PY699 Dissertation research (24 hours)
Students wanting to request a transfer into the social psychology concentration from other concentrations within the Department of Psychology should contact the social psychology coordinator for instructions.
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