In addition to P&N requirements, Students in the social program must complete the following requirements:
- attend weekly Social Brownbag
- Complete 2 advanced statistics courses
- Identify a secondary area of emphasis and complete a minimum of two courses in that area. The secondary area may involve another subdiscipline of psychology, another social science discipline, or quantitative methods. Below are sample emphases and courses:
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