Course Information
PLEASE NOTE: Research Methods in Psychology – Course Number Changing
Effective September 1, 2025, the course number for Research Methods in Psychology will be changing from PSYCH 205 to its new number of PSYCH 301. Changing the number will more accurately reflect the role of the course in our curriculum. Students should be taking Research Methods after they have had some more topic-based classes like Personality, Cognitive, Developmental, Social, or Psychopathology and have a better sense of the issues psychologists investigate.
The Research Methods course fulfills the Advanced Expression requirement for WCAS. The revised course number also makes its place in the larger WCAS curriculum more transparent since the Advanced Expression courses in other disciplines are at the 300-level and are intended to be taken after broader exposure to a given field.
The prerequisites for Research Methods are still PSYCH 110-Introduction to Psychology and PSYCH 201-Statistical Methods in Psychology (or an approved substitute). With its revised course number, PSYCH 301-Research Methods in Psychology will also continue to be a pre-requisite for all upper-level (Row 2) research courses.
The psychology department offers many resources to guide students in their course selections.
- Our First-Year Focus page provides tips on first courses to take in our department.
- Online quarterly and full-year schedules provide information on each quarter’s classes, including which requirements they fulfill.
- Our webpage on choosing courses provides useful strategies and key rules.
- The career planning section of our site addresses the relevance of psychology courses for different career paths.
- Psychology undergraduate advisers can meet with you to talk about choosing courses that will complete your requirements, match your interests, and best prepare you for whatever you might do next.
- Information on courses for the upcoming quarter is included in each issue of our undergraduate newsletter, Swift Thinking. Directions to declare a major!