Health Science and Psychology, BS (Oakland)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogHealth SciencesOakland132 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

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Public Health Core

• One of:
  • PHTH 1260 — The U.S. Healthcare System
  • PHTH 1261 — Comparative Healthcare Systems
• One of:
  • PHTH 2300 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions
  • PHTH 2301 — Communication Skills for the Health Professions—Global
• One of:
  • PHTH 2350 — Community and Public Health
  • PHTH 2351 — Community and Public Health - Global
• PHTH 2515 — Healthcare Policy and Administration
• PHTH 4120 — Global Perspectives on Discrimination and Health
• PHTH 4540 — Health Education and Program Planning

Science Requirement

• All of:
  • BIOL 1111 — General Biology 1
  • BIOL 1112 — Lab for BIOL 1111
• All of:
  • BIOL 1113 — General Biology 2
  • BIOL 1114 — Lab for BIOL 1113
• All of:
  • CHEM 1161 — General Chemistry for Science Majors
  • CHEM 1162 — Lab for CHEM 1161
  • CHEM 1163 — Recitation for CHEM 1161
• MATH 1241 — Calculus 1

Required Courses

• PSYC 1101 — Foundations of Psychology
• PSYC 3458 — Biological Psychology

Statistics

From the catalog

Complete the following course. Students who receive transfer credit for the Advanced Placement Statistics exam may complete the 1 semester hour PSYC 2315 course (requires department permission).

• PSYC 2320 — Statistics in Psychological Research

Personal/Social Bases of Behavior (Area A)

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Complete two of the following:

• Choose 8 semester hours from:
  • PSYC 3400 — Personality
  • PSYC 3402 — Social Psychology
  • PSYC 3404 — Developmental Psychology
  • PSYC 3406 — Clinical Psychology and Mental Health

Biological/Cognitive Bases of Behavior (Area B)

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • PSYC 3450 — Learning and Motivation
  • PSYC 3452 — Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 3464 — Psychology of Language
  • PSYC 3466 — Cognition

Psychology Electives

• Choose 12 semester hours from:
  • Any PSYC course numbered 1000–9999

Psychology Lab

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Complete one of the following. This requirement may not be fulfilled via transfer credit:

• One of:
  • PSYC 4600 — Laboratory in Research Design
  • PSYC 4604 — Laboratory in Learning and Motivation
  • PSYC 4606 — Laboratory in Biological Psychology
  • PSYC 4610 — Laboratory in Psycholinguistics
  • PSYC 4612 — Laboratory in Cognition
  • PSYC 4614 — Laboratory in Social Psychology
  • PSYC 4616 — Laboratory in Personality
  • PSYC 4622 — Laboratory in Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 4624 — Laboratory in Affective Science
  • PSYC 4628 — Laboratory in Developmental Psychology

Psychology Seminar

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Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • PSYC 4656 — Seminar in Biological Psychology
  • PSYC 4658 — Seminar in Psycholinguistics
  • PSYC 4660 — Seminar in Cognition
  • PSYC 4662 — Seminar in Personality
  • PSYC 4664 — Seminar in Social Psychology
  • PSYC 4666 — Seminar in Clinical Psychology
  • PSYC 4668 — Seminar in Sensation and Perception
  • PSYC 4674 — Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience
  • PSYC 4676 — Seminar in Developmental Psychology
  • PSYC 4682 — Seminar in Learning and Motivation
  • PSYC 4684 — Seminar in Stress Psychology

Introduction to College

From the catalog

Complete one of the following

• One of:
  • HSCI 1000 — College: An Introduction
  • INSC 1000 — Science at Northeastern

Experiential Learning Introduction

• One of:
  • EESC 2000 — Professional Development for Co-op
  • HSCI 2000 — Professional Development for Bouvé Co-op

First-Year Writing

• One of:
  • ENGW 1111 — First-Year Writing
  • ENGW 1102 — First-Year Writing for Multilingual Writers

Advanced Writing in the Discipline

• One of:
  • ENGW 3306 — Advanced Writing in the Health Professions
  • ENGW 3307 — Advanced Writing in the Sciences
  • ENGW 3315 — Interdisciplinary Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Ethical Reasoning

• PHIL 1165 — Moral and Social Problems in Healthcare

Integrative Requirement

• One of:
  • PSYC 3510 — Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
  • PSYC 4514 — Clinical Neuroscience
  • CAEP 2012 — Health Psychology: An Introduction

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• ENGW 1102 ↔ ENGW 1111 (tier C)
• ENGW 3306 ↔ ENGW 3307 (tier C)
• ENGW 3307 ↔ ENGW 3315 (tier C)

What the tiers mean

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