PSY at Temple 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 1003Statistics for Psychologyopens 23 courses (18.5 directly)
• PSY 1004Critical Thinking in Psychologyopens 18 courses (15.3 directly)
• PSY 2501Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscienceopens 10 courses (7.1 directly)
• PSY 2101Foundations of Cognitive Psychologyopens 4 courses (3.3 directly)
• SOC 1167Social Statisticsopens 4 courses (1.3 directly)
• PSY 2502Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscienceopens 4 courses (1.1 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 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 83 PSY and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 49 more PSY courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on PSY, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

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.

• 3 courses deep, ending at PSY 3002

  1. PSY 1001Introduction to Psychology
  2. PSY 1004Critical Thinking in Psychology
  3. PSY 3002Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology

• 3 courses deep, ending at PSY 3003

  1. MATH 0701Basic Mathematics for Today's World
  2. PSY 1003Statistics for Psychology
  3. PSY 3003Advanced Undergraduate Statistics

• 3 courses deep, ending at PSY 4696

  1. PSY 1001Introduction to Psychology
  2. PSY 3096Conducting Psychological Research
  3. PSY 4696Capstone in Psychology

• 3 courses deep, ending at PSY 8032

  1. PSY 8011Graduate Statistics I.
  2. PSY 8021Graduate Statistics II.
  3. PSY 8032Structural Equation Modeling

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for PSY yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under PSY yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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