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2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog

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2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog [NOTE!!!! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. FOR THE CURRENT CATALOG, GO TO CATALOG.NIU.EDU]

Psychology (B.A. or B.S.)

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Requirements in Department (35)

PSYC 102 - Introduction to Psychology Credits: 3
PSYC 305 - Research Methods Credits: 3
And
Electives in psychology (21 hours) to include at least 15 hours selected from 300-400 level courses. PSYC 485 may be included in these 21 hours for no more than 3 semester hours of credit. (21)

Two of the following (8)

PSYC 410 - Experimental Psychology: Perception Credits: 4
PSYC 411 - Experimental Psychology: Conditioning and Learning Credits: 4
PSYC 412 - Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory Credits: 4
PSYC 413 - Clinical Psychology Laboratory Credits: 4
PSYC 431 - Physiological Psychology Credits: 4
PSYC 433 - Social and Personality Laboratory Credits: 4
PSYC 464 - Developmental Psychology Laboratory Credits: 4

Requirements outside Department (B.A., 3-16; B.S., 14-16)

For the B.A. degree

Fulfillment of foreign language requirement (0-12)
(See “Foreign Language Requirement for the B.A. Degree.”)

STAT 208 - Basic Statistics Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
or
STAT 301 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 4

For the B.S. degree

One of the following groups

Group 1

MATH 210 - Finite Mathematics Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
MATH 211 - Calculus for Business and Social Science Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
STAT 301 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 4

One of the following (4)

CSCI 210 - Elementary Programming Credits: 4
CSCI 230 - Computer Programming in FORTRAN Credits: 4
CSCI 240 - Computer Programming in C++ Credits: 4
CSCI 250 - Computer Programming in COBOL Credits: 4

Group 2

MATH 229 - Calculus I Credits: 4
(Available for general education credit.)
and
MATH 230 - Calculus II Credits: 4
STAT 350 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics Credits: 3

One of the following (4)

CSCI 210 - Elementary Programming Credits: 4
CSCI 230 - Computer Programming in FORTRAN Credits: 4
CSCI 240 - Computer Programming in C++ Credits: 4
CSCI 250 - Computer Programming in COBOL Credits: 4

Group 3

MATH 211 - Calculus for Business and Social Science Credits: 3
STAT 301 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 4

A two-semester laboratory sequence to be met by one of the following sequences (7-9)

Sequence A

BIOS 104 - General Biology Credits: 4
(Available for general education credit.)
and one of the following
BIOS 205 - Organismal Diversity Credits: 3
(which is accompanied by)
BIOS 207 - Organismal Diversity Laboratory Credits: 1
or
BIOS 213 - Introductory Bacteriology Credits: 3
or
BIOS 357 - Human Anatomy and Physiology Credits: 5

Sequence B

CHEM 210 - General Chemistry I Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
and
CHEM 212 - General Chemistry Laboratory I Credits: 1
(Available for general education credit.)

And

CHEM 211 - General Chemistry II Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
and
CHEM 213 - General Chemistry Laboratory II Credits: 1
(Available for general education credit.)

Sequence C

PHYS 210 - General Physics I Credits: 4
(Available for general education credit.)
and
PHYS 211 - General Physics II Credits: 4
(Available for general education credit.)

Total Hours for a Major in Psychology: 38-51 (B.A.) OR 49-51 (B.S.)

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