Sample Graduate Curriculum in Social Psychology
Although each student fashions a program of study to meet his or her educational objectives, a typical student's schedule of coursework and research might be as follows:
Year 1
Fall Semester
- PSY 258S Introduction to Social Behavior and Personality
- PSY 366S Applied Analysis of Variance
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum: Begin 1st year project
- Optional: PSY 270S Seminar in Social Psychology
- Psychology Graduate Program Requirement: Identify a major advisor
- Spring Semester
- PSY 270S Seminar in Social Psychology
- PSY 367S Applied Correlation and Regression
- PSY 318 Research Methods in Psychology
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
- Social Area Program Requirement: Complete a first-year empirical project with major advisor and present at weekly brownbag
Year 2
- Fall Semester
- PSY 270S Seminar in Social Psychology
- DIISP Elective (see list below) or 1 of 2 Required Advanced Quantitative Courses
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
- DIISP Elective
- Psychology Graduate Program Requirement: Form a Major Area Paper Advisory Committee approved by DGS and Dean of the Graduate School
- Spring Semester
- PSY 270S Seminar in Social Psychology
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
- DIISP Elective or 1 of 2 Required Advanced Quantitative Courses
- Psychology Graduate Program Requirement: Submit a Major Area Paper and Complete Oral Examination
Year 3
- Fall Semester
- PSY 270S Seminar in Social Psychology
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
- DIISP Elective or 1 of 2 Required Advanced Quantitative Courses
- Psychology Graduate Program Requirement: Form a Dissertation Committee approved by DGS and Dean of the Graduate School
- Spring Semester
- DIISP Elective or 1 of 2 Required Advanced Quantitative Courses
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
- DIISP Elective or 1 of 2 Required Advanced Quantitative Courses
Years 4 and 5
- Fall Semester
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
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- Spring Semester
- Brownbag weekly meeting
- PSY 355 Research practicum
DIISP Elective Courses Appropriate Within Each Interdisciplinary Focus
Each student is expected to identify a secondary area of emphasis involving either another subdiscipline of psychology, another social science discipline, or quantitaive methods. Students must complete a minimum of two courses in their secondary emphasis.
- Developmental Psychology
- PSY 321 Lifespan Social Development
- PSY 205A Children’s Peer Relations
- PSY 322 Advanced Cognitive Development
- PSY 214S Development of Social Interactions
- PSY 221S Ethnicity, Culture, and Family Processes
- Consumer Behavior
- BA562 Seminar in Consumer Behavior
- BA525 Behavioral Decision Theory
- BA591 Special Topics in Consumer Behavior
- BA563 Marketing Models Seminar
- Health
- PSY 270S Emotion and Health (required; also fulfills a social seminar requirement)
- PSY 218S Personality, Stress and Disease
- PSY 227S Behavioral Physiology: Basic Systems
- ECON 356 Health Economics
- SOC 227BS Social Behavior and Health
- PUPOL 264S Poverty and Health
- Behavioral Medicine at UNC: Risk Communication for Health Promotion (UNC: I. Lipkus)
- Political Science
- POLSCI 320 Political Psychology
- POLSCI 306 Public Opinion
- POLSCI 239S American Mass Political Behavior
- POLSCI 304 Classics in American Politics
- Law
- LAW 388 Social Science Evidence Class (required)
- Any three of the following:
- LAW 140 Criminal Law
- LAW 180 Torts
- LAW 110 Civil Procedure
- LAW 245 Evidence
- Sociology
- SOC 299S Theories and Research in Social Psychology
- SOC 299S Role, Self and Identity
- SOC 299S Sociology of Emotion
- One of the following:
- SOC 227BS Social Behavior and Health
- SOC 299S Social Psychology of Occupations and Work
- SOC 217FS Field Methods
- Education (or complete the Certificate Program in Education Science)
- Seminar in Education Science and Policy
- Social Science Models in Educational Research
- SOC 299S Sociology of Education
- ECON Economics of Education
- Quantitative Methods
- PSY 369 Research Synthesis
- PSY 368 Applied Structural Equation Modeling
- PSY 370 Applied Multilevel Modeling
- ECON 239 Introduction to Econometrics
- POLSCI 233 Intermediate Statistical Methods
- SOC 215 Basic Demographic Methods
- STA 214 Probability/Statistical Models
- STA 215 Generalized Linear Models
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