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You may wish to check your progress toward completion of the major by using the Degree Navigator system.

Also, a number of required or relevant forms can be found here.

Requirements for the Major

1. Foundation Courses Major

  • General Psychology
  • Quantitative Methods or equivalent (prerequisite for all lab courses)
  • One 4-credit content course and lab combination
  • The prerequisites for declaring the major in psychology are completion of General Psychology and Quantitative Methods or equivalent statistics course with a grade of C or better.
  • Students must receive a C or better in the 4-credit content course and lab combination to complete the major.
    Note:  Content course will also apply toward either the core course or psychology elective requirement as indicated below.

2. Four Sub-discipline Core Courses 

A separate course must be selected from each of the following four sub-discipline clusters.  These four courses must be taken within the 01:830 subject index of the SAS Department of Psychology:

Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience

  • 830:310 Neuropsychology
  • 830:311 Learning Processes (formerly Conditioning & Learning)
  • 830:313 Physiological Psychology

Clinical Psychology

  • 830:310 Neuropsychology
  • 830:340 Abnormal Psychology
  • 830:346 Atypical Development in Childhood and Adolescence
  • 830:394 Community Psychology and Community Health

Cognitive Psychology

  • 830:301 Sensation & Perception
  • 830:303 Memory & Attention
  • 830:305 Cognition
  • 830:351 Psychology of Language

Social Psychology

  • 830:321 Social Psychology
  • 830:338 Personality Psychology
  • 830:377 Health Psychology

3. Six Psychology Electives

18 credits of psychology electives to be selected from the department's complete set of course offerings. These may include any additional courses from the sub-discipline core categories above (i.e., selections beyond those required to meet the sub-discipline distribution requirement) and 400 level courses.

No more than 6 credits of non-classroom courses such as fieldwork, research, or internships may be applied toward the major. The additional credits do, however apply toward the overall graduation credits and students are encouraged to take additional credits.

No more than two lower level psychology courses (7 credits) may be applied toward the major elective requirement.

A maximum of 12 credits of transfer psychology courses may be applied to the major. At least 6 credits of psychology electives must be completed with the Rutgers-New Brunswick SAS Department of Psychology. No more than two elective courses (6 credits) can be a transferred from psychology programs at two-year institutions (community colleges).

4. Upper Level Elective

Majors must complete one 400-level elective within the 01:830 subject index of the SAS Department of Psychology. 400-level courses require students to have declared the psychology major, to be of junior or senior status, and to have taken at least one core course. Individual courses may have additional prerequisites and instructors may grant special permission to enroll.

5. GPA Requirement

A cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.0 in all psychology (01:830) courses counting for the major.

Minor in Psychology

A minor in psychology consists of 18 credits, General Psychology (01:830:101) and five additional courses of 3 or more credits.  Students must receive a grade of C or better in General Psychology and overall GPA of 2.0 or better is required for all 01:830 courses. 

  • At least three of the six courses must be taken in the Rutgers-New Brunswick psychology program (01:830), and transfers from county or community colleges will be restricted to no more than General Psychology and two additional electives.
  • No more than one of the six required courses may be an experiential course such as fieldwork, internship, or research.
  • No more than two 200-level courses may be applied toward the minor. No college honors courses (non-830 subject index) may count toward this requirement.

Minor in Developmental Psychology

A minor in developmental psychology consists of 18 credits, General Psychology (01:830:101), Principles of Developmental Psychology (01:830:271) and 4 additional courses from the Developmental Psychology Minor electives list. Students must receive a grade of C or better in General Psychology and overall GPA of 2.0 or better is required for all 01:830 courses.

  • At least three of the six courses must be taken in the Rutgers-New Brunswick psychology program (01:830), and transfers from county or community colleges will be restricted to General Psychology (01:830:101) and Principles of Developmental Psychology (01:830:271)
  • No more than one of the six required courses may be a fieldwork course.

Both minors may be declared on the SAS website or in the office of your college dean. One may not declare both a psychology minor and developmental minor nor declare either minor with a psychology major. The minor in Developmental Psychology falls under the 835 subject code.

Developmental Psychology electives:

  • 01:830:331  Infant and Child Development
  • 01:830:333  Adolescent Development
  • 01:830:335  Adult Development and Aging
  • 01:830:346  Atypical Development in Childhood and Adolescence
  • 01:830:361  Developmental Psychobiology
  • 01:830:394  Community Psychology and Mental Health
  • 01:830:431  Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology
  • 01:830:432  Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology
  • 01:830:484  Language Acquisition

Developmental Psychology Experiential Courses (a maximum of 3 credits accepted towards the minor)

  • 01:830:380/381  Fieldwork: Foster Care
  • 01:830:382/383  Fieldwork: Autism
  • 01:830:388/389  Fieldwork: Child Development