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UNDERGRADUATE SEQUENCE OF STUDY

The following is a sample course selection for a student beginning their Psychology major in their freshman year at Fordham College-RH . Which course is taken in each semester is not indicated, and except for Foreign Language 1 & 2, Biology 1 & 2, and Statistics and Methods, the sequencing is up to the student. As a general rule, for Psychology courses, take lowered numbered courses before taking higher numbered courses.

Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior

Freshman Year

ENRU 1000 - Close reading and Critical Writing
ENRU 1100 - English Composition and Rhetoric
RSRU 1000 - Faith and Critical reason
PHRU 1000 - Philosophy of Human Nature
HSRU 1000 - The West from the Enlightenment to the Present
CSRU 1100 - Structures of Computer Science or MTRU 1203 – Finite Math
Foreign language 1
Foreign language 2
Fine Arts course
PSRU 1000 Introductory Psychology

Note: One of the above courses must be a Freshman Seminar (XXRF XXXX)

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Sophomore Year

Literature course - select among courses offered
Theology course - select among courses offered
PHRU 1100- Philosophical Ethics
History course - select among courses offered
Social Science 1 course - Introduction to Political Science, Sociology, or Micro/Macroeconomics
PSRU 2000 - Statistics
PSRU 2010 - Research Methods
Second Social science course
Elective outside Psychology
Elective outside Psychology

Note: During Freshman or Sophomore year take one course that fulfills an above requirement and is a Global studies course (XXRG XXXX) and one course that is an American Pluralism course (XXRP XXXX). If you can take an additional course (you transferred in a course) take a course from PSRU 2100-2998.

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Junior Year

Basic Psychology course (PSRU 2100-2599)
Complex Psychology Course (PSRU 2600-2998)
Either basic or complex course (PSRU 2100-2998)
Advance Psychology course (PSRU 3000-3999)
BIRU 1403 - Introduction to Biology 1 and BIRU 1413 – associated lab
BIRU 1404 - Introduction to Biology 2 and BIRU 1414 – associated lab
Elective outside Psychology
Elective outside Psychology

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Senior Year

Advance Psychology course (PSRU 3000-3999)
Elective in Psychology (PSRU 2100-4998
Capstone in Psychology (4000-4995,4998)
Senior Values Seminar
Elective in or outside Psychology
Elective in or outside Psychology
Elective in or outside Psychology
Elective in or outside Psychology

Note: One of the above Psychology courses must also be a Psychology lab course (PSRU XXX1)

  
 
     
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