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Required General Education Courses

• College Composition I (3 s.h.) OR Integrated College Comp I (4 s.h.)
• College Composition II (3 s.h.)
• Public Speaking (3 s.h.)
• Pre-Calculus OR Introduction to Geometry OR Contmporary Math (3 or 4 s.h.)
• General Biology/Human Focus [recommended] OR Biology I: Diversity, Evolution & Adaptation (4 s.h.)
• Statistics I (3 s.h.) [This course is a prerequisite for Statistics in Psychology]
• Human Variation OR Cultural Anthropology OR Anthro Perspectives of Phys Growth & Dev (3 s.h.)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) elective 1 (3 s.h.)
• Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) elective 2 (3 s.h.)
• Intro to Philosophy OR Logic of Everyday Reasoning OR Phil of Science OR Phil of Mind OR World Phil I OR World Phil II (3 s.h.)
• Literature (LIT) Elective (3 s.h.)
• History, Humanities & Language (HHL) Elective 1 (3 s.h.)
• History, Humanities & Language (HHL) Elective 2 (3 s.h.)
• Arts and Creative Experience (ACE) Elective (3 s.h.)
• Non-Program Electives - 12 semester hours (all courses except psychology courses fulfill this requirement)
• Free Electives - 21 semester hours (any course including psychology courses after program requirements are met fulfills this requirement)
• All native freshman need a Rowan Seminar course to satisfy Rowan Experience requirements.

Foundation Courses in Psychology

• Essentials of Psychology (3 s.h.)
• Psychology of Scientific Thinking (3 s.h.)
• Research Methods in Psychology (4 s.h.)
• Statistics in Psychology (4 s.h.)
• Advanced Research -WI (3 s.h.)
• Psychology as a Profession and Practice (3 s.h.)

Basic Core Areas of Psychology

• Lifespan Development (3 s.h.)
• Learning and Behavior (3 s.h.) OR Cognitive Psychology (3 s.h.)
• Social Psychology (3 s.h.) OR Personality (3 s.h.)
• Physiological Psychology (3 s.h.) OR Perception (3 s.h.)
• Abnormal Psychology (3 s.h.) OR Developmental Psychopathology (3 s.h.)

Note: Child Development and Adolescent Development cannot be applied to the major: if taken or transferred, they would count as Free Electives

Psychology Major Electives (see below for lists)

• Course from list A (3 s.h.)
• Course from list A OR B (3 s.h.)
• Course from list A OR C (3 s.h.)

List A: Specialized Core Courses

• African-American Psychology (M/G)
• Applied Behavior Analysis
• Behavioral Assessment and Measurement
• Consumer Psychology
• Educational Psychology
• Environmental Psychology
• History and Systems in Psychology
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Intake and Interviewing Skills in Psychology
• Personnel Psychology
• Psychology and Law
• Psychology of Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• Psychology of Ethnic Identity/Community in America (M/G)
• Psychology of Human Sexuality
• Psychology of Racism and Ethnocentrism (M/G)
• Psychology of Women and Cultural Experience (M/G)
• Psychological Tests and Measurement
• Seminar in Psychology (various topics)

List B: Independent Study and Field Experience [These require consent of instructor and separate application process]

• Field Experience in Psychology
• Independent Study in Psychology

List C: Additional Coursework in Basic Core Areas

• Abnormal Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Developmental Psychopathology
• Learning and Behavior
• Perception
• Physiological Psychology                              
• Psychology of Personality
• Social Psychology (M/G)

Advising (Changes effective Fall 2011)

All freshmen will be advised by the new Center for Academic Advisement and Exploration (CAAdE) Center. If you are a native freshman or a transfer with less than 30 subject hours, course selection and career advisement will be done by staff at the center. Once a student achieves 30 subject hours, he or she will transition to advisement in the Department of Psychology. When this happens, each student will receive an official academic advisor, who will be one of the full-time tenure-track faculty (see the Faculty and Staff page to put that advisor's name to a face). The Department of Psychology encourages all psychology majors to meet with their Psychology department advisor at least once a semester. The purpose of these meetings are to discuss course selection, progress towards graduation requirements, academic planning, graduate school and/or career plans. It is the student's responsibility to schedule these meetings to ensure that any deficiencies that would delay graduation are identified early enough to be corrected and not delay graduation. This is especially crucial with respect to the four course foundation courses (Psychology of Scientific Thinking, Research Methods in Psychology, Statistics in Psychology, and Advanced Research), which must be taken in order, over a minimum of three semesters.

Transfer Credits

Transfer students may transfer a maximum total of 67 credit hours from other institutions and may not transfer more than 12 credit hours in psychology courses. Transfer students therefore must complete a minimum of 53 credit hours, including a minimum of 26 credit hours in psychology, at Rowan University to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree at Rowan University. All psychology majors are strongly urged to take all of their psychology courses at Rowan University. Students should consult with their advisor (see above) before taking courses at other institutions to insure the credits will be accepted by Rowan.

PASS/NO CREDIT

Psychology majors make take up to 10% of their Rowan credit hours as pass/no credit including 6 credit hours in Psychology (students may not take Research Methods in Psychology, Statistics in Psychology or Advanced Research, nor their 400 level requirement courses as pass/no credit).

Credit by examination

Students scoring 52 or above on the CLEP test may earn credit for Essentials of Psychology.