APSY at Boston College

A suggested order for the 6 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 1 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate APSY coursework.

• APSY 7444Theories of Counseling and Personality Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• APSY 7660Practice and Supervision Seminar Iopens 1 course (1 directly)
• APSY 9988Dissertation Directionopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate APSY work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 6 APSY and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 81 more APSY courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in APSY. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at APSY 7543

  1. APSY 7444Theories of Counseling and Personality I
  2. APSY 7543Psychopathology

• 2 courses deep, ending at APSY 9849

  1. APSY 7660Practice and Supervision Seminar I
  2. APSY 9849Doctoral Internship in Counseling Psychology

• 2 courses deep, ending at APSY 9911

  1. APSY 9988Dissertation Direction
  2. APSY 9911Doctoral Continuation

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on APSY sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Alice E
• Aronson, James
• Bebell, Damian
• Blustein, David L
• Brown, Nathaniel
• Clemente, Tracy Riley
• Coley, Rebekah L
• Crump Swaby, Gayl
• Currie, Charles W, III
• Dauphinais, Emma L
• Davidesco Klinger, Ido
• Davidesco-Chang, Ido
• Daza, Kaila M
• De Jesús Acevedo, Jessica
• Dearing, Eric, Ph.D.
• Dearing, Eric, PHD
• DeCandia, Carmela J
• Dept, Dept
• Desantis, Amy
• Estefania Carolina
• Goodman, Lisa A
• Gordon, Michael
• Haney, Margaret A
• Harrington, Kara R
• Harris, Madelyn G
• Karter, Justin
• Kim, Oh Myo
• Lai, Betty S
• Laski, Elida V
• Lerner, Jacqueline V
• Lewin-Bizan, Selva
• Lewis Harris, Treniece
• Li, Zhushan
• Liang, Belle
• Lincoln, Brenna
• Liu, Yilin
• Louis, Elizabeth F
• Lutes, Dillon S
• MacEvoy, Julie P
• Mahalik, James R
• + 33 more

Boston College professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under APSY yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

APSY does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Boston College campus feed.