Minor requirements include:

1. The student must be a degree candidate at Saint Anselm College.
2. The student must formally register for the departmental minor with the director of the minor no later than the first semester of the junior year.
3. The student must have a minimum grade point average of C (2.0) in all courses presented for the minor. 

Required Courses:

• PY 101 - General Psychology
• PY 301 - Behavioral Statistics (or another statistics course to be agreed upon by the chairs of Psychology and the other department)

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• 3 Psychology Electives  with no more than two electives coming from one of the following 3 groups:

Brain and Behavior:

• PY 105 - Behavioral Neuroscience
• PY 205 - Psychology of Addiction and Dependency
• PY 304 - Cognitive Psychology
• PY 307 - Abnormal Psychology
• PY 311 - Neuropsychological Assessment
• PY 313 - Learning and Motivation
• PY 314 - Childhood Psychopathology
• PY 316 - Sensation and Perception
• PY 321 - Clinical Neuroscience
• PY 322 - Behavioral Pharmacology
• PY 324 - Neuroethology
• PY 325 - Brain Aging and Dementia

Society and Relationships:

• PY 103 - Introduction to Design Thinking
• PY 201 - Organizational Psychology
• PY 207 - Psychology of Gender
• PY 208 - Psychology and Law
• PY 209 - Political Psychology
• PY 211 - Liberation Psychology
• PY 308 - Clinical Psychology
• PY 312 - History and Systems of Psychology
• PY 315 - Social Psychology

Development and Potential:

• PY 202 - Infant and Child Development
• PY 203 - Adolescent Psychology
• PY 204 - Psychology of Adulthood and Aging
• PY 206 - Health Psychology
• PY 212 - Sports and Exercise Psychology
• PY 306 - Psychology of Personality
• PY 310 - Humanistic Psychology

Note:

PY210 (special topics courses) will be determined on a case by case basis by the Chair as which of the three categories they fulfill.

PY 199 will count as an elective for the Development and Potential category for Elementary Education majors only.