Admissions Requirements

To be accepted into the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Psychology Specialization, B.A. program, a student must have the following:  

1. High School diploma or official certification of high school equivalency earned through passage of the Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC) or General Education Development (GED) assessment

2. Satisfactory score on the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) in Reading Comprehension

3. Satisfactory score on a standardized writing assignment

4. Age 21 or older

Seminar Courses

• NRLA 100 - Experience, Learning and Identity
• HUMM 100 - American Experience
• BHSC 125 - Urban Community
• SINC 120 - Science and Human Values
• BIOL 100 - Human Body
• NRLA 400 - Ways of Knowing in the Liberal Arts (cc)

Milestone Courses

• NRLA 150 - First Year Orientation
• NRLA 220 - Milestone I: Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
• NRLA 250 - Milestone II: Liberal Arts Tapestry

English Courses

• ENGL 201 - Research and Information Literacy
• ENGL 100 - Writing as Communication *based on writing placement
• ENGL 106 - Translating Experience into Essay *based on writing placement 
• ENGL 286 - Language, Thought, and Critical Analysis *based on writing placement 
• ENGL 287 - Modes of Analysis

Mathematics Courses

• MATH 112 - Fundamentals of Algebra
• MATH 155 - Quantitative Reasoning
• MATH 200 - College Algebra
• MATH 127 - Statistics

Psychology Specialization Courses

• PSYN 106 - Introduction to Psychology
• PSYN 258 - Infant and Child Psychology
• PSYN 278 - Adolescent Psychology
• PSYN 292 - Theories of Personality
• PSYN 304 - Abnormal Psychology
• PSYN 400 - Theories and Techniques of Counseling
• PSYN 460 - Experimental Psychology
• PSYN 405 - Psychology of Family Systems
• PSYN 403 - Traumatic Stress
• PSYN 404 - Social Psychology
• PSYN 450 - Clinical Psychology
• PSYN 406 - Educational Psychology

Elective Courses

Students will take between 30 and 39 elective credits based on their writing placement. 

Total Program Credits: 120