Psychology Core Curriculum:

  PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology

• This course acquaints you with the basic principles, methods, fields (development, social, cognitive, experimental, etc.) and areas (motivation, emotion, learning, memory, sensation and perception, personality, etc.) studied in psychology.  This course is a prerequisite for many other programs in addition to Psychology.  Additionally, students are strongly encouraged to enroll in PSY 102, while they are enrolled in PSY 101, to enhance their Introductory Psychology experience.

  • PSY 102 Orientation - Southern and Dobson Campus

  • PSY 102 Orientation - Red Mountain Campus

  PSY 230 / 231 - Introduction to Statistics

• This course covers the basic concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics, with emphasis on application to psychological studies.  In our computer laboratory, you will learn how to collect, sample, graph, analyze and evaluate experimental data.  PSY 230 and PSY 231 must be taken concurrently.

  PSY 290 - Research Methods

• This course teaches how to plan, execute, analyze and report psychological experiments.  You will survey the literature on procedures and instruments used in representative areas of psychological research.

Additional Psychology Courses

Please contact The Psychology Department for comments or corrections email phone: 480-461-7032