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 under the heading “Advanced Coursework.”
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.
General Psychology Core
- PY672 Advanced Social Psychology
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Two of: PY650 Cognition and Learning, PY629 Biological Bases of Behavior, PY670 Perception, PY652 Life-Span Developmental Psychology
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
- PY 654, 655, and 656 Psychology (12 hours on experimental psychology topics are required, with at least 9 of them 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 (18 hours)