Area Specific Requirements --social psychology

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