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Four Year Plan

(This is one of many ways your program can be structured)

First Year

First Semester

• General Education, including PSY 120
• Principles of Psychology (cat. 5e) (15 credits)

Second Semester

• Psychology: Foundation Group (3 credits)
• General Education (12 credits)

Second Year

First Semester

• Psychology Elective (3 credits)
• General Education, including required support course BIO 101 or 110 (cat. 6be) (13 credits)

Second Semester

• Psychology Electives (6 credits)
• University-Wide Electives (9 credits)

Third Year

First Semester

• Psychology: Clinical/Counseling Group (5 credits)
• Psychology: Diversity Group (2-3 credits)
• University-Wide Electives (10-11 credits)

Second Semester

• PSY 480 Physiological Psychology (5 credits)
• PSY 480 Physiological Psychology (3 credits)
• University-Wide Electives (6 credits)

Fourth Year

First Semester

• PSY 400 Research Design and Analysis (5 credits)
• University-Wide Electives (9 credits)

Second Semester

• Psychology: Experimental Group (3 credits)
• PSY 491 Field Experience (3 credits)
• University-Wide Electives (9 credits)

NOTES:

This handout should not be used as a January 26, 2007on of the Psychology Major in the UNC Catalog.

In order to graduate in four years, you are advised to take an average of 15 credits per semester. These credits fall into three categories: Psychology Major, General Education, and University-Wide Electives. University-Wide Electives may take the form of another major, a minor, or additionalJanuary 26, 2007ave a minor. Your advisor can suggest a particular set of electives in response to your interests and objectives.

Psychology program faculty recommend that PSY 400 (Research Design and Analysis) be taken as soon as possible after PSY 200 (Psychological Statistics and Design).

The Psychology program offers courses in the summer session. Students are encouraged to take summer classes as a means of expediting their degree program or as a means to catch up from taking fewer than an average of 15 credits per semester.