Basic Structure of the Department
- PBS offers a major and a minor in Psychology, and a major and a minor in
Neuroscience. Neither can be modified with another course of study.
- Psychology is the scientific approach to understanding human behavior and
its social and biological underpinnings.
- Neuroscience is the study of the science of the brain and its functions. It
is interdisciplinary in nature (drawing on courses from biology, chemistry, and
computer science as well).
- Both majors are scientific in their methodology and the nature of their
inquiry.
- Courses in PBS are numbered in the following way. PSYC 1 and 6 are
introductory level courses with no prerequisites. PSYC 10 introduces students
to design, methodology and data analysis procedures, and has either PSYC 1 or 6
as a prerequisite. PSYC 11 is a methodology course that follows 10. Courses in
the 20s are introductions to various subfields within the discipline. Courses
in the 50s and above are more specialized topics courses limited to 35
students. Courses numbered in the 60s are laboratory courses, and those
numbered in the 80s are senior-level seminars. Both 60s and 80s are culminating
courses.
Fall courses for the interested first-year student
- PSYC 1: Introductory Psychology
Winter courses for the interested first-year student
- PSYC 1: Introductory Psychology
- PSYC 6: Introduction to Neuroscience
- PSYC 22: Learning (PSYC 1 or 6 is prerequisite)
- PSYC 23: Social Psychology (PSYC 1 is prerequisite)
- PSYC 26: Physiological Psychology (PSYC 1 [or 6] is prerequisite)
- PSYC 52: Language Acquisition (=EDUC 58, LING 10; PSYC 1 or EDUC 20 is
prerequisite)
Spring courses for the interested first-year student
- PSYC 1: Introductory Psychology
- PSYC 10: Experimental Design and Methodology (credit for or concurrent
enrollment in PSYC 1 or 6 is prerequisite)
- PSYC 24: Personality and Abnormal Psychology (PSYC 1 is prerequisite)
- PSYC 25: Developmental Psychology (=EDUC 18; PSYC 1 or 6 is
prerequisite)
- PSYC 28: Cognition (PSYC 1 or 6, or COSC 5 is prerequisite)
Information for the First-Year Student who plans on pursuing studies in
Psychological and Brain Sciences
- PSYC 1: Introductory Psychology, is a large lecture course, is team-taught
by four members of the PBS faculty, and has computer-corrected multiple-choice
evaluation. This is a wide ranging, interesting, and often entertaining class.
Over 50% of students will take this at one point in their Dartmouth careers,
and it is appropriate for first year students. It is also offered every fall,
winter, and spring.
- PSYC 6: Introduction to Neuroscience (offered in winter 2008) serves as the
prerequisite for the Neuroscience major.
- PSYC 1 or 6 is prerequisite for many upper-level courses in the PBS
department.
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