Psychology, PhD (Boston)

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Fundamentals

From the catalog

Complete the following:

• PSYC 5110 — Cognitive Science
• PSYC 5170 — Social and Affective Science

• From the catalog

  Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • PSYC 5115 — Colloquium
  • PSYC 5120 — Proseminar in Sensation
  • PSYC 5130 — Proseminar in Perception
  • PSYC 5140 — Proseminar in Biology of Behavior

Research Dissemination

• PSYC 5301 — Research Methods in Psychological Sciences

Quantitative Methods

• PSYC 5180 — Quantitative Methods 1
• PSYC 5181 — Quantitative Methods 2

Ethics

• PSYC 7302 — Ethics and Professional Issues

Project

From the catalog

Take the following (repeatable) course three times:

• PSYC 8401 — Research Project

Thesis

From the catalog

Take the following (repeatable) course twice:

• PSYC 7990 — Thesis

Electives

From the catalog

Complete 14 semester hours from the following:

Note: Proseminars not taken to fulfill core requirements and courses outside the department may be taken if approved by faculty adviser and Director of Graduate Studies.

PSYC 7200 to PSYC 7300

• Choose 14 semester hours from:
  • Any PSYC course numbered 7200–7300
  • PSYC 5110 — Cognitive Science
  • PSYC 5115 — Colloquium
  • PSYC 5120 — Proseminar in Sensation
  • PSYC 5130 — Proseminar in Perception
  • PSYC 5140 — Proseminar in Biology of Behavior
  • PSYC 5170 — Social and Affective Science
  • PSYC 8402 — Special Topics in Psychology

Dissertation

From the catalog

Complete the following (repeatable) course until graduation:

• One of:
  • PSYC 9990 — Dissertation Term 1
  • PSYC 9991 — Dissertation Term 2
  • PSYC 9996 — Dissertation Continuation

GPA requirements

• 50 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under psychology-phd-boston, and the official page is the authority.