Psychology Degree

This degree has a Required General Education Core (GEC) totaling 44-47 hours.

The GEC includes courses in:

Area I: Foundation Skills (18-21 hours)

Area II: A Liberal Arts Education (26 hours)

Degree Requirements

Area I – Foundation Skills - 2 hours

Foundations of Scholarship and Learning

* FSL 101 is required for first-year students. Transfer students who have earned 24 credit hours or more prior to enrolling at Cumberland are not required to take the course.

Area I - Rhetoric and Communication - 15 hours

ENG 101	English Composition I	3
ENG 102	English Composition II	3
SPEE 220	Fundamentals of Speech	3
SPAN 111	Elementary Spanish I	3
SPAN 112	Elementary Spanish II	3

Area I - Mathematics (choose one) - 3 or 4 hours

MATH 110	Mathematics for the Liberal Arts	3
MATH 111	College Algebra	3
MATH 112	Trigonometry	3
MATH 121	Calculus I	4

Area II - Arts and Humanities (choose one) - 3 hours

ART 191	Enhancing Art Understanding	3
ENG 210	Introduction to Film Studies	3
MU 129	Music Listening	3
PHIL 201	Introduction to Philosophy	3
THR 100	Introduction to Theatre	3

Area II - Literature in English (choose one) - 3 hours

ENG 215	Introduction to Literature	3
ENG 216	Topics in Literature	3

Area II - Social Science - 6 hours

PSY 201	General Psychology	3
PSY 211	Psychology of Human Growth & Development	3

Area II - History (choose one of two sequences) - 6 hours

HIS 191	World Civilization to 1500	3
	and
HIS 192	World Civilization since 1500	3
	or
HIS 201	History of the United States I	3
	and
HIS 202	History of the United States II	3

Area II - The Natural Sciences: Biology - 4 hours

Choose one from the following:

BIO 100	Principles of Biology	4
BIO 111	General Biology I	3
	and
BIO 111L	General Biology I Lab	1

Area II - The Natural Sciences: Physical Sciences - 4 hours

Choose one from the following:

ASTR 100	Introduction to Astronomy	4
CHEM 103	Fundamentals of Chemistry	3
	and
CHEM 103L	Fundamentals of Chemistry Lab	1
CHEM 111	General Chemistry I	3
	and
CHEM 111L	General Chemistry I Lab	1
PHY 201	College Physics I	4
PHY 210	General Physics I	4
PS 100	Physical Science	4

Required Psychology Core Courses - 24 hours

PSY 205/MATH 205	Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences	3
PSY 430	History and Systems of Psychology	3
PSY 441/SOC 441	Research Methods for the Social Sciences	3
PSY 475	Senior Seminar in Psychology	3

Choose one Clinical Psychology course:

PSY 321	Introduction to Counseling	3
PSY 400	Theories of Personality	3
PSY 415	Psychological Testing	3
PSY 420	Abnormal Psychology	3

Choose one Developmental Psychology course:

PSY 340	Psychology of Adolescence	3
PSY 425/REL 425	Psychology and Religion	3
PSY 461	Psychology of Adulthood and Aging	3
PSY 463	Psychology of Death and Dying	3

Choose one Experimental Psychology course:

PSY 315	Physiological Psychology	3
PSY 320	Human Learning and Cognition	3
PSY 444/SPE 444	Applied Behavior Analysis	3

Choose one Social Psychology course:

PSY 300/SOC 300	Social Psychology	3
PSY 325	Organizational Psychology	3
PSY 335	Psychology of Health and Wellness	3
PSY 410	Environmental Psychology	3

Psychology Electives - 9 hours

* Choose nine hours from psychology at the 300 level or higher.

General Electives - 40-43 hours

* Select sufficient courses from any academic discipline to bring the total hours for graduation to a minimum of 120.

Total GEC Credit Hours (44-47 hours)

Total Psychology Core Requirements (24 hours)

Total Psychology Electives (9 hours)

Total General Electives (40-43 hours)

* FSL 101, ENG 101, ENG 102, the courses meeting the Mathematics, Literature, and Biology GEC requirements, and all psychology courses require a “C” or higher.

120 minimum hours required for graduation.