Name ______

UIN ______Date ______

Psychology Advising Worksheet

Effective for students matriculating Fall 2012 and later

Total Hours Earned ____ Total Hours “In-progress” this term ____ (Note: students need at least 60 UIUC hours )

UIUC/LAS GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Non-Primary Language / Composition I / Advanced Composition
Humanities and the Arts
Minimum 6 hours / Literature and Arts (LA) and/or Historical and Philosophical (HP)
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Minimum 6 hours / Social Science (SS) and/or Behavioral Science (BS)
Natural Sciences and Technology
Minimum 6 hours / Life Science (LS) and/or Physical Science (PS)
Cultural Studies
Minimum 2 classes
(Courses from Humanities/Arts and Social/Behavioral Sciences may also satisfy this requirement) / Western (W) – one class
Non-Western (NW) or U.S. Minority (US) – one class
Quantitative Reasoning
Minimum 6 hours / Any (2) QRI or (1) QRI and (1) QRII

PSYCHOLOGY REQUIREMENTS (32 PSYC w/ 13 advanced hrs required) Hours Earned ____ Hours Needed ____

1) Introductory Psychology100 Intro to Psychology or 103 Experimental Psych or 105Psych Introduction

2) Statistics 235Intro to Statistics (3hrs) or 301Psychological Statistics(5hrs)

or equivalent STAT 100, ECON 202, EPSY 280, SOC 280, SOCW 225

3) Biological/Cognitive Psychology - Complete any TWO courses:

204Brain &Cognition (3hrs)210Mind & Brain(3hrs) 220Images of Mind(3hrs) 224Cognitive (3hrs)

230Perception(3hrs) 248Learning/Memory(3hrs) **[358Human Factors - not for FA12 and later students]

4) Other Psychology - Complete any TWO courses:

201Social(3hrs)216Child (3hrs) 238Abnormal(3hrs)

239Community(3hrs) 245Industrial(3hrs) 250Personality (3hrs)

5) Complete ONE Psychology research methods/laboratory course:

311Techniques of Bio (4hrs) 331Cognitive (4hrs)332Social/lab (4hrs)333Social/natural (4hrs) 334Vision/Space (4hrs) 363Developmental (4hrs) 379Clinical (4hrs) 429Human/Computer (4hrs) 437Adv. Psyc Lab (4hrs) 489Neural Network (4hrs) 490Measure/Eval (4hrs)

6) Complete 21 Advanced hrs (300- & 400 level)**minimum 13 hrs must be PSYC/will include lab course**

7) Supporting Coursework: 12 hours of non-PSYC hours to compliment your overall interests

How do you use ‘elective’ hours? Learn Something New? Second Major? Minor? Pre-Something?

Other departments offering classes of interest? ______

Fall

/ Fall / Fall / Fall
Spring / Spring / Spring / Spring

My Future Considerations (Questions I need to be asking myself)

1) What goal(s) do you have after you graduate?

2) How are you reaching those goal(s)?

  • Coursework
  • Job
  • Volunteer
  • Leadership
  • Research

3) What skills are important for my goal(s)?

4) What connections have I made? Who knows me well enough to write a letter of recommendation? Or fill out the grid below?

UPPER 5% / UPPER 10% / UPPER 25% / UPPER 50% / LOWER 50% / NO BASIS
TO JUDGE
Intellectual Ability
Oral Expression
Written Expression
Motivation/Initiative
Cooperation
Emotional Maturity
Dependability
Creativity
Ability to Work with Others
Ability to Reason
Overall Potential