NCSU Developmental Psychology

Program Requirements
The Psychology Department requires that all doctoral degree students complete nine semester hours of statistics and research design, a one-credit orientation and ethics course (PSY800), and three core courses on the biological, cognitive-affective, and/or social bases of behavior.

Departmental Core Courses: To satisfy the current distributional requirement, students are required to take 9 credit hours of core courses in total, spanning the two groups listed below. Two courses must be taken from one group and one course from the other. The student, with Committee approval, selects the area of greater emphasis.

The two groups and their corresponding courses are:

Group A:       Group B:

PSY 500 Visual Perception       PSY 511 Advanced Social Psychology

PSY 502 Physiological Psychology       PSY 584 Advanced Developmental Psychology

PSY 508 Cognitive Processes       PSY 591 History & Systems of Psychology

PSY 744 Human Information Processing       PSY 764 Survey of I/O Psychology

For a list of all the courses that fulfill the statistics requirement please see pages 18 & 19 of the current Psychology Graduate Student Handbook.

Developmental Core Courses: In addition to the general departmental requirements, all Developmental students must take the following core courses:

PSY 584: Advanced Developmental Psychology
PSY 785: Methodological Issues in Developmental Psychology
PSY 786: Cognitive Development
PSY 787: Social Development
PSY 788: Adulthood and Aging: Cognitive and Intellectual Changes
PSY 789: Social-emotional Processes in Adulthood and Aging

Developmental students are expected to attend and participate in the Developmental Area Seminar (PSY820D), an informal series (held from 12:15-1:30 every other Wednesday) at which students and faculty meet to discuss ongoing research, development projects, and professional issues.

Our program is also one of the constituent members of the internationally renowned Center for Developmental Science, and maintains ties to the system-wide Institute on Aging. Students are encouraged to augment their training through participation in special seminars and research opportunities associated with each of these organizations.

Please consult the Psychology Graduate Student Handbook for further information about academic requirements.

For more descriptive information about these courses please visit the Psychology Course Catalog.

For a current schedule of courses offered please visit the TRACS Schedule of Courses.

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