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Graduate Curriculum Requirements

Departmental Requirements

All students in the Social Psychology Program must fulfill the General Department Requirements .

Additional Social Psychology Program Curriculum Requirements

  1. General Courses:
    • PSYC 40600: Advanced Seminar in Social Psychology (This course will also fulfill a core course requirement for the common graduate curriculum.)
    • Introductory course in Experimental Social Psychology. 
    • Topics in Experimental Social Psychology: An ongoing seminar taught collectively by the Core Faculty each quarter.
  2. An advanced course or seminar in at least four of the Areas of Emphasis listed below:
    • Self
    • Social Cognition
    • Social and Cognitive Neuroscience
    • Decision Making
    • Attitudes and Affect
    • Stereotyping and Prejudice
    • Communication and Language Processes
    • Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
    • Political Psychology
    • Cultural Psychology
  3. The Advanced Methods in Experimental Psychology course, plus two additional courses in advanced methods and statistics.
  4. Students are expected to take advanced courses and seminars in their area of specialization.

Qualifying Exam

A PhD qualifying exam is given at the beginning of the third year.

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