PSY at San Francisco State University

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 PSY coursework.

• PSY 171Quantitative Reasoning in Psychology (Units: 3)opens 19 courses (3 directly)
• MATH 122Mathematics for Statistical Quantitative Reasoning (Units: 2)opens 19 courses (0.5 directly)
• MATH 123Mathematics for Elementary Statistics (Unit: 1)opens 19 courses (0.5 directly)
• PSY 371Psychological Statistics (Units: 3)opens 16 courses (15.5 directly)
• PSY 697Senior Project Preparation (Units: 3)opens 3 courses (3 directly)
• PSY 729Psychology Practicum (Units: 3)opens 3 courses (2.5 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 PSY 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 79 PSY and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 30 more PSY 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 PSY. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at PSY 305GW

  1. MATH 122Mathematics for Statistical Quantitative Reasoning (Units: 2)
  2. PSY 171Quantitative Reasoning in Psychology (Units: 3)
  3. PSY 371Psychological Statistics (Units: 3)
  4. PSY 305GWWriting in Psychology - GWAR (Units: 3)

• 5 courses deep, ending at PSY 694

  1. PSY 698Honors Project in Psychology (Units: 3)
  2. PSY 697Senior Project Preparation (Units: 3)
  3. PSY 693Proseminar I (Units: 3)

• 5 courses deep, ending at PSY 722

  1. PSY 728Conference to Accompany Psychology Practicum (Units: 3)
  2. PSY 729Psychology Practicum (Units: 3)
  3. PSY 721Clinical Methods: Assessment of Intelligence and Perceptual-Motor Functioning (Units: 3)

• 4 courses deep, ending at PSY 768

  1. PSY 761Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Units: 3)
  2. PSY 760Seminar in Organizational Psychology (Units: 3)
  3. PSY 769Field Experience in Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Units: 3)

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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